Film

You've Got Mail 1998

Directed by Nora Ephron

  • Comedy, Romance
  • 119 min
  • PG

Someone you pass on the street may already be the love of your life.

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

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Classical in form, effortless, warm and resolved.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • effortlessdemanding
  • warmbleak
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • sparerichly built

Who loves it, who doesn't

The Comfort SeekerThe Comfort Seeker: loved by 5The Comfort Seeker: disliked by 15 / 1The Genre DevoteeThe Genre Devotee: loved by 3The Genre Devotee: disliked by 33 / 3The CartographerThe Cartographer: loved by 1The Cartographer: disliked by 21 / 2The FormalistThe Formalist: loved by 2The Formalist: disliked by 12 / 1The ProvocateurThe Provocateur: loved by 1The Provocateur: disliked by 21 / 2The SincereThe Sincere: loved by 22The Prestige HunterThe Prestige Hunter: loved by 1The Prestige Hunter: disliked by 11 / 1The IronistThe Ironist: disliked by 20 / 2loved (4★+)disliked (2.5★ or less)

50 profiled raters. Loved most by The Comfort Seekers; disliked most by The Genre Devotees.

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