You've Got Mail

Theatrical Release Date: 1998 12 18 (USA)

UPC: 085391164197

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Suitable for Children]

Summary: Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance and courtship into the electronic age of the World Wide Web via e-mail and chat rooms. Joe Fox (Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) live and work blocks from each other on New York City's Upper West Side. Their lives are practically intertwined. They both shop at the same place, frequent the same coffee shop, and even own competing bookstores on the same street. They also both have significant others of their own. Joe has the overly hyper book editor Patricia Eden (Parker Posey), while Kathleen lives with the scholarly newspaper columnist Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear). Then they meet in a chat room. Though they keep their identities secret (they're known only by screen names "NY152" and "Shopgirl"), they tell each other everything about their lives, including their private feelings, which slowly turn into affection for each other. When Joe decides to open a new branch of his "Foxbooks" chain that risks putting Kathleen's "Shop Around the Corner" out of business, the tension between them escalates. Surely her boutique business will be lost to the conglomerate with a built-in newsstand and coffee bar. When Joe sees Kathleen waiting for him in the restaurant where they agreed to meet up, he puts two and two together, but cannot face her, given their agreement not to reveal each others' names and professions. How can he reveal himself to her now, knowing that he is the cause of her misery? Hopefully, love will conquer all. ~ Chris Gore, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: 2 delightful new featurettes:
Delivering You've Got Mail
You've Got Chemistry
Commentary by director/co-writer Nora Ephron and producer Lauren Shuler Donner
HBO First Look: A conversation with Nora Ephron
Interactive discover New York's upper west side map tour
Carole King Anyone At All music video
Music-only audio track

You've Got Mail

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 02/05/2008

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 120 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- You've Got Mail
1. Click-On Credits [3:01]
2. Morning Log-Ons [4:04]
3. Passersby [1:25]
4. Cyberromantics [5:04]
5. Sizing Competition [2:24]
6. Life Observed [1:57]
7. A Lone Reed [3:06]
8. Foxes Day Out [2:44]
9. Just Call Me Joe [5:34]
10. Who's Worried? [4:04]
11. Party Patter [4:57]
12. Low Opinions [2:54]
13. To Her Rescue [2:45]
14. Holiday Songs [2:21]
15. "Godfather Advice" [4:40]
16. Eloquence [3:20]
17. Something There [3:11]
18. Let's Meet [3:59]
19. He's Not Here [5:50]
20. Stood Up [4:07]
21. Still Here [5:22]
22. Birdie's Amour [1:24]
23. So Right [4:02]
24. Customer Service [4:13]
25. Getting Out [2:55]
26. One Final Twirl [2:34]
27. Dad's Company [2:44]
28. Getting Personal [5:50]
29. Should Meet Him [2:40]
30. A Little Tweaking [4:21]
31. This Tiny Thing [4:19]
32. Wanted/Be You [3:21]
33. End Credits [3:45]

Lucia Bozzola

Back in the genre that served her so well with When Harry Met Sally (1989) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), New York-based writer/director Nora Ephron reunited Sleepless stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan for the romantic comedy You've Got Mail (1998). Updating Ernst Lubitsch's charming The Shop Around the Corner (1940) -- and, in turn, its remake, Robert Z. Leonard's In the Good Old Summertime (1949) -- for the email and super-store 1990s, Ephron created a glossy valentine to Manhattan's Upper West Side, with its neighborhood shops, cafes, and resident literati. Unfortunately, as critics noted, Lubitsch's incomparable wit and light touch mostly got lost in the translation as cute-as-a-button Ryan and laid-back Hanks spar over bookstores in public while they anonymously fall in love via America Online in private. Still, audiences were happy to watch Hanks and Ryan interact onscreen (unlike in most of Sleepless) amid a romantically idealized New York; Greg Kinnear and Parker Posey provided a dash of comic relief as Ryan's and Hanks' spurned mates. You've Got Mail became a Christmas-season hit, proving that Ephron's brand of old-fashioned romantic comedy could make box-office lightning strike twice. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Hallee Hirsh  Actor 
Chris Messina  Actor 
Michael Palin  Actor 
Reiko Aylesworth  Actor 
Lauren Shuler-Donner  Producer 
Nora Ephron  Director 
Nora Ephron  Producer 
Nora Ephron  Screenwriter 
George Fenton  Composer (Music Score) 
Delia Ephron  Executive Producer 
Delia Ephron  Screenwriter 
Julie Durk  Executive Producer 
G. Mac Brown  Executive Producer 
Tom Hanks  Actor 
Meg Ryan  Actor 
Parker Posey  Actor 
Greg Kinnear  Actor 
Jean Stapleton  Actor 
Steve Zahn  Actor 
Dave Chappelle  Actor 
Dabney Coleman  Actor 
John Randolph  Actor 
Heather Burns  Actor 

Country: USA