King Arthur Movie Tristan

title: You've Got Mail


genre: comedy/romance

Release Date: December 1998

Plot: Two business rivals hate each other but fall in love over the internet.

rated: 5 out of 5





Some of you may know, i'm a big fan of chic flicks. One of my all time favorites is
You've Got Mail. It's such a cute film. It's got some of my favorite things involved in the plot:

1. The two main characters meet online through IM'ing each other. (computer)

2. The two main characters own bookstores. (books)

3. Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) loves the book Pride & Prejudice and carries it around with her. (Pride & Prejudice)

4. Romance.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) owns a small children's book store.
When Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), opens his book store called Fox Books, around the corner from Kathleen's little shop, she is in danger of closing down to the larger store. Fox Books has everything from a larger selection of books to coffee and sweets, to discount prices. So these two become arch enemies, they meet and cannot stand one another. What they don't realize is that the romance they are conducting anonymously on the internet is with each other.

Joe Fox: Then why don't you run off with him? What are you waiting for?

Kathleen Kelly: I don't actually know him.

Joe Fox: Really?

Kathleen Kelly: We only know each other - oh, God, you're not going to believe this...

Joe Fox: Let me guess. From the Internet.

Kathleen Kelly: Yes.

Joe Fox: You've got mail.

Kathleen Kelly: Yes.

Joe Fox: Three very powerful words.

Books are largely involved in the plot, both main characters own book stores, so books and reading are discussed often. Kathleen defends one of her favorite books to Joe, Pride & Prejudice:

Joe Fox: I didn't know you were a Jane Austen fan. Not that it's a surprise. I bet you read it every year. I bet you just love Mr. Darcy, and that your sentimental heart beats wildly at the thought that he and whatever her name is are really, honestly and truly going to end up together.


Kathleen Kelly: The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is Elizabeth Bennet. She is one of the Greatest and most complex characters ever written, not that you would know.

fun fact: The movie is based loosely on the now-classic 1940 film, "The Shop Around The Corner," which starred Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. The two leads played a man and woman who shared a mutual animosity for the other but who nonetheless fell for each other through letters they write to each other anonymously.