You’ve Got Mail

December 12, 2004

Rated: PG Runtime: 120 min Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

I saw this movie when it first hit the theaters in 1998 and I could hardly wait for the DVD release. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have true chemistry. When they work together, it is like magic.

You’ve Got Mail is one of the top well done movies I have seen and although the people who do the acting in the movie are just supreme, the script and direction is very evident of true genius. Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron have put together an amazing piece of work.

In this movie Hanks and Ryan have loads of scenes together unlike their characters in Sleepless In Seattle, also an Ephron film. If you saw the old screen versions of this story, The Shop Around the Corner or In The Good Old Summertime then you already have a good idea of what this remake is all about.

Hanks plays a superstore book chain magnate, Fox Books, (he, his father and grandfather own the chain) and Ryan owns a children’s bookstore called The Shop Around The Corner. They fall in love via e-mail anonymously. They have no idea who the other person is but in real life they are business enemies. The story twists and turns as their characters have to deal with the issues of business and the fun business of love, a love they do not know belongs to that same person that is driving them totally mad in reality. But in cyberspace they are the closest of pals.

I won’t give the story totally away but it is worth seeing. I cannot call this a chick flick but it is a wonderful date movie. It makes a person feel great to watch it over and over. I have to give it 5 out of 5 stars for such a job well done.

Posted by Biff Mercer | Filed Under 5 Stars, Comedy, DVD, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton, Meg Ryan, PG, Parker Posey, Tom Hanks