You've Got Mail

Em @ il for you is an American romantic comedy film from 1998 with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the lead roles. This is a free remake of the film The Shop Around the ( original title: The Shop Around The Corner ). Ernst Lubitsch in 1940, the act was offset from the Budapest of the 1930s to the New York of the 1990s and modernized accordingly: So was from the original correspondence between two unknowns (which are actually still know ) a communication by e -mail. The basis for the film version of 1940 was based on the action of the play by Miklós László perfumery.

Action

Who lives in New York City entrepreneur Joe Fox, son of the owner of a chain of bookstores "Fox & Sons Bookstores " learn on the internet to know a woman posing as a shop girl. At the same time he supervised the preparations for the opening of a new branch of the chain. Kathleen Kelly, who runs a small bookstore in the area tried to play down the potential business disadvantages, their employees are worried. During reception Kelly Joe Fox gets to know, there is a dispute. Her experiences tells her e- mail acquaintance whom she knows only as NY152.

Fox arranged a meeting with the Shopgirl. When he sees that it is Kathleen Kelly, he is not recognized as NY152 and later invents an excuse why he has not appeared. The branch is opened, Kelly has to close her shop. Fox consoles Kelly, becomes her friend. Together with her he thinks about possible reasons why NY152 does not show up.

It is arranged a second meeting between Shopgirl and NY152. When Kelly sees that hides behind the pseudonym Joe Fox, she cries with joy and says she wished he was the unknown NY152.

Reviews

" Uninspired staged, stylish jazzed adaptation of a stage play, which is already as for the film was " served Shop Around the Corner "by Ernst Lubitsch in 1939 as well as the Broadway musical " She Loves Me ". The main character can never transmitted credible in the film reality romantic love their chat room acquaintance. Also in the camera work, the film remains conventional and unloving garnished with a disappointing soundtrack. "

The film was often compared to Sleepless in Seattle, in which Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and Nora Ephron also participated. The main characters were described as sympathetic, but it was criticized that some issues such as the concentration of the business world and the displacement of small businesses were only referred to in passing.

Awards

Meg Ryan was nominated for the Golden Globe Film Awards. The film won the Golden Screen Award and the Bogey. Meg Ryan and Greg Kinnear won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award, was nominated for the Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have been nominated for an American Comedy Award. The film was a Golden Satellite Award in three categories, including Best Picture ( Comedy or Musical), nominated.

George Fenton won the BMI film music award.

Trivia

  • The original title of the film You've Got Mail is regarded as an exemplary product placement in the film industry, this is the movie title but exactly to the message, getting what the users of the online service AOL to hear if they have received a new mail.
  • The film has many allusions to the novel Pride and Prejudice (Original Title: Pride and Prejudice ) by Jane Austen.
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