You've Got Mail
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.
Plot
On Manhattan's Upper West Side, Kathleen Kelly runs The Shop Around the Corner, an independent children's bookstore she inherited from her mother. She is in a relationship with Frank Navasky, a left-leaning columnist for The New York Observer. While Frank is devoted to his typewriter, Kathleen prefers her laptop and using her AOL email account, under the screen name "Shopgirl", to exchange messages with "NY152", whom she first met in a chatroom. As they have agreed not to share specifics about their personal lives, she knows nothing about him other than the name of his dog, Brinkley.
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| author | Delia Ephron Nora Ephron |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New Jersey New York City |
| director | Nora Ephron |
| editor | Richard Marks |
| events | computing |
| genre | comedy romance |
| keywords | aol best friend inherit meet nothing open picket plan publish screen name talk show than the the new york observer true identity upper west side user west side |
| musicBy | George Fenton |
| producer | Lauren Shuler Donner Nora Ephron |
| productionCompany | The Donners' Company |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| recordedAt | New Jersey |
| theme | romantic comedy spy |