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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305368137 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6305368139 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 04, 1999 Running Time: 119 minutes Sales Rank: 6593 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Amazon.com essential video: 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 neighborhood, 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.
Rating: - Best ever
Fun and entertaining....best movie I've seen in a long time...Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks make the perfect couple...the type movie that leaves you with a smile on your face and a warm feeling in your heart...a must see for all true romantics
Rating: - You've Got Mail
This is a great "feel good" movie. When you want to forget about the cares of the day, watch, "You've Got Mail".
Rating: - "Just the beat of my heart. I have mail, from you...."
"All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings." -- Kathleen
This captivating film from Nora Ephron about finding that special someone who makes our heart beat faster and lends love to our small lives is one of the best. While no adaptation of Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner starring Jimmy Stewart and the winsome Margaret Sullavan could be as fully realized as that screen classic, no one can deny the great romantic appeal and utter charm of this one.
New York is photographed by cinematographer John Lindley as a magical place for romance to ... Read More
Rating: - Meg Ryan was divine. Tom Hank was excellent. The movie was a real charmer.
Meg Ryan has always been a pretty face. Still you can see the subtle changes of her features over the years. In "Armed and Dangerous" of 1986, her pretty face was more school-girlish. In "When Harry Met Sally" of 1989, her pretty face was radiant and gorgeous. In "Sleepless in Seattle" of 1993, her pretty face was that of a beautiful mature woman. In "You've Got Mail", her pretty face was more angular because she had lost weight. With minimal make-up, she came across as a very fresh, adorable, natural beauty. It is this pretty face that I loved the most. And then those cute mannerisms, she truly ... Read More
Rating: - Nice
The DVD for You've Got Mail has waited for a while on my DVD shelf before I felt like watching it. If I have known, it has been this nice and somehow funny, I would have watched it long earlier. This is a warm, humorous and charming movie. Although, Katleen and Joe have not met each other before, they know each other (not by identity) from the AOL emails. They have met each other in "Over thirties" chatroom and looks like they have been mailing each other since then, but secretly! Both of them are involved in a relationship, however, both of them love to hear the sentence "You've Got Mail" when they ... Read More
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