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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
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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: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 523
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1998
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Neigborhood bookstore rivals unwittingly become e-mail pen pals in this charming remake of The Shop Around the CornerRunning Time: 119 min.System Requirements:ACTORS Jane Adams Reiko Aylesworth Michael Badalucco Heather Burns David Chappelle Dabney Coleman Elwood Edwards Kate Finneran Tom Hanks Hallie Hirsh Greg Kinnear Parker Posey John Randolph Meg Ryan Katie Sogona Howard Spiegel Jean Stapleton Steve Zahn LENGTH 2 hrs RATING PG ComedyFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: UPC: 085391695424 Manufacturer No: 16954
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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
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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 captured my heart and many others' too. Many times this cuteness was exaggerated, but hey, it's ok. It's a movie, for entertainment. Enjoy it rather than critique it. I replayed many many times the part starting from Tom Hanks going to Meg Ryan's apartment with the daisy to start "tweaking his project", to the end of the movie. The section was purely one on one between Hanks and Ryan. I wish they lengthened this section. I also wish they lengthened the end where Ryan finally met Hanks the "NY152" email pen-pal for the first time, and of course Hanks the "Fox". I think the writer/director could make the ending more touching, say adding some reminiscence of old email, etc., to show again for the last time the bonding effect those email had on the both of them. They could also show more of Ryan's bitter-sweet reactions/ dialogues for being strung along by Hanks when he hid his "NY152" identity. I enjoy this ... 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 log into AOL mails service. If they have only known this sentence actually meant a lot more to them than they were aware of. When they decide to meet each other physically, Joe finds out that his mail friend Shopgirl has actually been a business competitor, Katleen, if we could name it so. Katleen or Shopgirl, owns a little book shop for children, but at the moment her business is threatened by Fox books recently established right next to her little shop. Maybe it is not hard to imagine now that Fox books is owned by Joe or NY152! Well, when Joe finds this out at their first attempt to meet each other, he avoids to introduce his email identity to Katleen, but acts as if he was around the meeting place by coincidence. Katleen would think she had been stood up by her email friend NY152 not knowing this email friend is her biggest competitor ever! Now it is time for him to capture Katleens's heart as "Joe the ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie
Very romantic and funny with some great twists! Great to watch on a date or if you've been married for a while. It's really a feel-good-movie. I highly recommend it!
Other recommendations about movie: P.S. I Love You
books about relationships: I Love You. Now What?: Falling in Love is a Mystery, Keeping It Isn't
Rating:  - I liked it!
this is a 5 star movie. and I liked it, i liked it a lot. i li i a lo tt
Rating: - YOU GOT MAIL AND IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME
I PURCHASED THESE MOVIES, BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER BARBARA, LOVES THE MOVIES
I GREW UP WITH, WHEN I WAS A CHILD.
THESE MOVIES ARE REMAKES OF THE LITTLE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
THE STORIES WERE UPDATED AND ALL THREE HAS SPENDID CASTS.
THEY HAD PEOPLE THAT COULD REALLY ACT AND THE STORES WERE WHOLESOME AND
HEART WARMING. TOM HANKS AND MEG RYAN ARE JUST AS GREAT IN YOU GOT MAIL
AS THEY WERE IN SLEEPLES IN SEATTLE. THE STORY IN THE THREE FILMS WERE
ABOUT TWO PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER AND NOT KNOWING THEY ARE CORESPONDING
WITH EACH OTHER ROMANICALLY.AS PEN PALS,AND EMAIL PALS.
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME IS VAN JOHNSON AND JUDY GARLAND IN THE MUSICAL
VERISON OF THE LITTLE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER AND A GREAT CAST.
THE LITTLE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER IS WITH JAMES STEWART, FRANK MORGAN
MARGARET SULLIVAN AND WILLIAM TRACY.A GREAT CAST.
ALL THREE FILMS ARE GREAT COMEDIES AND OUTSTANDING CASTS AND A DELIGHT
TO SEE THE DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS IN EACH.
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