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You've Got Mail
Director Nora Ephron with Delia Ephron have updated the age-old tale of pen-pals who in real life are bitter enemies.
Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) runs the Little Shop Around the Corner, an institution in New York, built by her beloved mother. Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is a Corporate bulldozer whose superstore bookshops are cutting a bloody swath amongst the smaller, specialist, friendly bookshops.
He appeals to the populace with 'cheap books and legal stimulants (coffee)'.
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The film becomes with an excellent computer zoom in to New York, and slickly swaps into 'real life' in time to see our Kathleen slyly awaiting her luddite journalist boyfriend's departure so that she can log on and see the message 'You've Got Mail'. Across town, Fox's girlfriend, a publisher who "makes coffee nervous" leaves for the day freeing Joe to log on for his own e-mail run. As they begin their respective days, bypassing one another in the street unbeknownst, we hear their messages in voiceover.
Soon, Fox opens a store opposite Kathleen's store and a battle ensures, one where Fox is unknowlingly providing Kathleen with advice on how to fight his own onslaught. An unabased comedy romance with well-drawn characters speaking deadpan ironic lines, all with Ephron's expert touch. |
by Ali Kayn
Due for Australian release December 26, 1998 | |
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Title: You've Got Mail (1998) | ||
The Players: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear | Official website | ||
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