You’ve Got Mail (1998)
If the plot of The Shop Around the Corner sounds familiar to any others of my era, it’s because you saw You’ve Got Mail (1998) first and thought it was a brilliant idea that people fall in love without ever meeting. Meg Ryan owns a small independent children’s bookstore called...The Shop Around the Corner! that she inherited from her mother. Her life is books and the people that help her run her shop. Tom Hanks is the corporate monster that opens a big box store and runs her out of business. They are fighting each other in real life but at the same time falling in love via email and AOL instant messaging, the letters of the late 1990s. They also fall in love all over a beautifully shot New York that director, Nora Ephron, counted as one of her main characters. As a re-watch, it was still sweet and charming, if somewhat of a period piece now. A great couple of movies to watch together.
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