Youve Got Mail Review
Back in the genre that served her so well with When_Harry_Met_Sally (1989) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), New York-based writer/director Nora_Ephron reunited Sleepless stars Tom_Hanks and Meg_Ryan for the romantic comedy You've Got Mail (1998). Updating Ernst_Lubitsch's charming The Shop Around the Corner (1940) -- and, in turn, its remake, Robert_Z._Leonard's In the Good Old Summertime (1949) -- for the email and super-store 1990s, Ephron created a glossy valentine to Manhattan's Upper West Side, with its neighborhood shops, cafes, and resident literati. Unfortunately, as critics noted, Lubitsch's incomparable wit and light touch mostly got lost in the translation as cute-as-a-button Ryan and laid-back Hanks spar over bookstores in public while they anonymously fall in love via America Online in private. Still, audiences were happy to watch Hanks and Ryan interact onscreen (unlike in most of Sleepless) amid a romantically idealized New York; Greg_Kinnear and Parker_Posey provided a dash of comic relief as Ryan's and Hanks' spurned mates. You've Got Mail became a Christmas-season hit, proving that Ephron's brand of old-fashioned romantic comedy could make box-office lightning strike twice. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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