You've Got Mail (1998) on Netflix
PG19981h 59mComedyDramaRomance
Kathleen Kelly runs a children's bookshop on Manhattan's Upper West Side and trades anonymous emails with a stranger. He is Joe Fox, whose family's book chain is opening a superstore nearby.
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- Rotten Tomatoes70%
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Plot summary
Kathleen Kelly, owner of a little and famous bookstore for children's books, has an affair. Being together with Frank Navasky, a well-known journalist, she betrays him by e-mailing secretly and anonymously with a (also betraying) man whom she met in a chat room. Suddenly, her business gets endangered by the opening of Fox Books discount store just "around the corner". She meets Joe Fox, son of the owner, and soon gets annoyed by his arrogant way of managing business matters. Although getting advice by her anonymous mail-pal, she has to close down her store. But Joe Fox's life suddenly gets out of control when he learns that his anonymous mail-pal is nobody other than Kathleen Kelly.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about You've Got Mail (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Michael Palin was initially cast as a reclusive novelist based on Thomas Pynchon, but his scenes were cut from the finished film.
- Julia Roberts declined the part of Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail because she lacked confidence in the quality of the romantic comedy scripts being made at the time.
- The filming location used as the children's bookstore stood at 106 West 69th Street in New York, then the home of Maya Shaper's Cheese and Antique Shop.
- Before filming, Nora Ephron had Meg Ryan and Burns rehearse and work for a week at Books of Wonder, an independent New York City children's bookstore, to get them into character.
