The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 850 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two coworkers in a Budapest shop constantly bicker with each other. They do not realize that each is the other's secret pen pal and love interest. Their letters keep them connected as they navigate misunderstandings at work.

warmcharmingwhimsicalromanticplayfulbittersweetcozy

What happens

The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Joseph Schildkraut. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. The film is about two employees at a leather goods shop in pre-war Budapest who can barely stand each other, not realizing they are falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters. It follows social themes associated with the lives of the middle class. Though the film did not do well at the box office, it was met with generally positive reviews from film critics. It has since been adapted into three productions. In 1999 The Shop Around the Corner was selected with 24 other films to be included in the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthically" significant and is also included in the all-time top 100 movies selected by Time magazine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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