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You've Got Mail

starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Katie Sagona, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey
directed by: Nora Ephron

: You've Got Mail
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790740898
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790740893
Label: Warner Home Video
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 04, 1999
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 5903
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1998



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Description:
Neigborhood bookstore rivals unwittingly become e-mail pen pals in this charming remake of The Shop Around the Corner

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary with N. Ephron & L. Shuler-Donner
DVD ROM Features:N. Ephron Audio Bytes 'Sounds of NY' (10:07) Interview Gallery - Individual Clips (12:00) Comparison Scenes (38:00)
Featurette:HBO First Look Special: 'A Conversation with Nora Ephron' (14:39)
Other:DIscover NY's Upper West Side' - 11 Selectable Clips (15:00)




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.

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 color coordinates their wardrobes for cocktail parties. --Sam Sutherland



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best ever
Fun and entertaining....best movie I've seen in a long time...Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks make the perfect ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - "Just the beat of my heart. I have mail, from you...."
"All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings." -- Kathleen


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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Nice
The DVD for You've Got Mail has waited for a while on my DVD shelf before I felt like watching it. If ... Read More

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