Starring Tom Hanksand Meg Ryan, You’ve Got Mail was inspired by the 1940 movie The Shop Around the Corner. It follows rival bookstore owners Joe Fox (Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Ryan), who fall in love with each other while anonymously communicating via email—after first meeting in a then-new America Online (AOL) over-30 chat room.
Like its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail was a box office hit, raking in over $250 million globally, per The Numbers.
Ephron knew the dial-up email piece wouldn't stand the test of time
Ryan told Vanity Fair that Ephron was “an essayist about culture.” “To her, there was something secretly smart about this idea of corporate takeovers and what's happening to small business,” the actress said. “If there were such a thing as the next You've Got Mail, we'd have to sort of say that Barnes and Noble and those sorts of chains are being swallowed up by Amazon, and now these small bookstores are coming back again to recompete.”
“When we did You've Got Mail, I said, ‘Hey, you know, Nora, this is kind of like a follow-up to Sleepless in Seattle, let's keep that in our pocket,”‘ Hanks told Access Hollywood in 2023. “And she says, ‘Yes, it is, but we'd better hurry up while email is still a going thing.’ So even she knew how fast everything turned."
“We always talk about this all the time, what would Nora be making about TikTok, about social media,” Hanks added of the director, who died in 2012. “If she were around, we'd do it again.”
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