You've Got Mail (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1998 / Director: Nora Ephron / Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan ... / DVD released 23 ... more

You've Got Mail (DVD) ... August, 1999 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You've Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron's previous excursion with the duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on but Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature's gentle, extended tease of saving its romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot. The underlying narrative is an even more old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The script, cowritten by the director and her sister, Delia Ephron, updates and relocates the Ernst Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner, to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks) is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller, more specialized shops such as the children's bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly (Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighbourhood yet they first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes. It's no small testament to the two stars that we wind up liking and caring about them despite the inevitable (and highly manipulative) arc of the plot. Although their chemistry transcended the consciously improbable romantic premise of Sleepless, enabling director Ephron to attain a kind of amorous soufflé, this time around there's a slow leak that considerably deflates the affair. Less credulous viewers will challenge Joe's logic in prolonging the concealment of his online identity from Kathleen, and may shake their heads at Ephron's reinvention of Manhattan as a spotless, sun-dappled wonderland where everybody lives in million-dollar apartments and colour co-ordinates their wardrobes for cocktail parties. --Sam Sutherland

Newest Review: ... the actors can get paid millions for doing nothing much save for looking cute/brave/pretty/handsome... You've Got Mail is one ... more

... such film. When I first watched it, I was in the throes of love and marriage, and my ex and I fell into the oozy cutie trap. We watched the love between Tom and Meg blossom, we laughed at the whimsical comedy scenes. It... pushed all the right buttons... So, to the plot... Kathleen Kelly, played by Meg Ryan, owns a small children's bookshop "The Shop Around the Corner." She loves her shop; she loves the children to come into the store, reads them stories in fact. During such a reading, Tom Hanks calls ...more

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	You've Got Mail [DVD] [1999] By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwi ... Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 2.98

You've Got Mail [DVD] [1999]
By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwi ...

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You've Got Mail (DVD): I Know I've felt Like This Before, But Now I Feel It Even Mo ... (1763 words)
by - written on 16/05/06 (Very useful, 285 readings)
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Kathleen Kelly runs her mothers old book shop; it is a quiet, charming and successful little place with a real sense of community spirit and some enchanting workers. It is on top of its game until the Starbucks filled, super discount book store Joe Books comes into town. It’s the ultimate battle between globalisation and small town business. Luckily for Kathleen she has a haven to go back to, the internet where she speaks to a funny and charming friend, who she is slowly falling head over heels in love with. Joe has also been talking to an engaging and emotional lady, see the connection? But will they find out each others true identities? And if they do, can love ... Read the complete review

Love at first..... Data Transfer (1435 words)
by - written on 07/09/07 (Very useful, 141 readings)
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>>>> Synopsis Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) one of the owners of Fox Books, a chain of mega bookshops, is about to open his latest mega-store and destroy all competitors who stand in his way, including Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) the owner of the quaint children’s bookshop "The Shop around the Corner". But unbeknown to each of them, they are best of friends online, chatting anonymously across the internet and helping each other out, to the extent that despite both being in relationships they are falling in love with each other. >>>> Opinion "You've Got Mail" is a thoroughly decent attempt to make a ... Read the complete review

You've Got Mail (DVD): Post IT notes (516 words)
by - written on 26/12/09 (Very useful, 21 readings)
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Some films are designated oozy cutie, cutie oozy films that are tailor made for those romantic evenings in with the spouse/partner... or maybe those tear spilling evenings when you are all alone and you are wondering why you cannot get someone just like Tom or Meg, where you ask yourself why fate has dealt you the losing hand and why your life is like a pile of poop. But...what the hey? Seriously, these films seem to fall off the conveyor belt like a ready-made doll, and you know what? You just cannot help enjoying them, evening though you know they are made just so the film studios can make big bucks and the actors can get paid millions for doing ... Read the complete review

Here Comes The Postman (490 words)
by - written on 14/10/09 (Very useful, 23 readings)
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Well I just reviewed Sleepless in Seattle, so thought it only right that I review this film next. You've got mail was the kind of follow up to the brilliant Sleepless in Seattle. Directed again by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, even though this was a completely different story they were clearly trying to recapture the onsceen magic. This film was released back in 1998 and was a big hit, but to be honest that was really on the back of the sucess of Sleepless in Seattle. Even though this is a good film it never really got close to it previous film. The film tells the story of two New York book shop owners. First of all we have ... Read the complete review

You've Got Mail (DVD): You've Got Mail (461 words)
by - written on 11/07/08 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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When it comes to romantic comedies, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have proven to be the perfect couple; previously starring together in 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'Joe vs. the Volcano'. Being a big fan of their previous collaborations and an ardent romantic comedy fan, 'You've got Mail' was a film I was always going to love. The film is a remake of the 1940 film, The Shop around the Corner, which starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. ***Plot*** The story sees Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly, the owner of a book store which she has inherited from her mother called The Shop around the Corner. A quaint store full of history and charm on a New ... Read the complete review

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