You've Got Maii

YOU'VE GOT MAIL (PG)

D: Nora Ephron

Warner Bros. (Nora Ephron & Lauren Shuler-Donner)

US 1998

119 mins

Comedy/Romance

W: Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron [based on the screenplay "The Shop Around The Corner" by Samson Raphaelson]

DP: John Lindley

Ed: Richard Marks

Mus: George Fenton

Tom Hanks (Joe Fox), Meg Ryan (Kathleen Kelly), Parker Posey (Patricia Eden), Greg Kinnear (Frank Havasky), Jean Stapleton (Birdie Conrad)

*spoiler warning*

Two rival bookshop owners fall in love with each other online via e-mail, but they despise each other in real life.

A remake of a 1940's screwball comedy which seems more like an unofficial sequel to Sleepless In Seattle, with both main stars sleepwalking through the movie.

A truly insipid rom-com, which is so damn stupid, it even shows you how it's going to end on the promotional poster! It really hasn't dated well and it wasn't particularly good in the first place.

4/10