YOU'VE GOT MAIL (PG)
D: Nora Ephron
Warner Bros. (Nora Ephron & Lauren
Shuler-Donner)
US 1998
119 mins
Comedy/Romance
W: Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron [based on the
screenplay "The Shop Around The Corner" by Samson Raphaelson]
DP: John Lindley
Ed: Richard Marks
Mus: George Fenton
Tom Hanks (Joe Fox), Meg Ryan (Kathleen Kelly), Parker
Posey (Patricia Eden), Greg Kinnear (Frank Havasky), Jean Stapleton (Birdie Conrad)
*spoiler warning*
Two rival bookshop owners fall in love with each other
online via e-mail, but they despise each other in real life.
A remake of a 1940's screwball comedy which seems more
like an unofficial sequel to Sleepless In Seattle, with both main stars sleepwalking through the movie.
A truly insipid rom-com, which is so damn stupid, it even
shows you how it's going to end on the promotional poster! It really hasn't dated well and it wasn't particularly good in the first place.
4/10