You've Got Mail (1998)

Directed by

Nora Ephron

Genre

romantic comedy, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3,678 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two people meet and fall in love in an online chatroom, unaware that in real life they are business rivals competing in the New York City bookstore world. They carry on a secret correspondence while clashing face to face.

romanticlightheartedwarmclevercozyurbancharmingnostalgic

What happens

You've Got Mail is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Nora Ephron, and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan alongside Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Dave Chappelle, Steve Zahn, and Greg Kinnear. Inspired by the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László (which had earlier been adapted in 1940 as The Shop Around the Corner and in 1949 as In the Good Old Summertime), the screenplay was co-written by Nora and Delia Ephron. It tells the story of two people in an online romance who are unaware they are also business rivals. It marked the third pairing of Hanks and Ryan, who previously appeared together in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), the latter directed by Ephron. The film takes its name from the greeting AOL users receive when they get a new email. Principal photography took place primarily on New York City's Upper West Side, from February to June 1998. You've Got Mail was released in the United States by Warner Bros. on December 18, 1998. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $250.8 million worldwide against a $65 million budget, making it Nora Ephron's highest-grossing film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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