You’ve Got Mail

film by Ephron [1998]

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  • discussed in biography
    • Nora Ephron, 2009.
      In Nora Ephron

      …Ryan in the romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail (1998), which updates the anonymous epistolary romance of the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner for the age of online communication. Meanwhile, her first script for the stage—Imaginary Friends, about the longtime enmity between writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy—was produced…

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  • romantic comedy
    • Romantic comedy
      In romantic comedy: Resurgence and attempts to broaden the appeal

      …Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), and You’ve Got Mail (1998) showcased the charisma of stars such as Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, and Sandra Bullock as they denied their attraction to leading men such as Richard Gere, Tom Hanks, and Bill Pullman, all the while displaying their obvious chemistry against picturesque depictions…

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role of

    • Hanks
      • Tom Hanks in Charlie Wilson's War
        In Tom Hanks

        Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You’ve Got Mail (1998), both directed by Nora Ephron. He portrayed the drunken manager of a women’s baseball team in the comedy A League of Their Own (1992) and delivered an Oscar-winning performance as a gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993). Another Academy Award,…

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    • Ryan
      • Meg Ryan
        In Meg Ryan: Early 2000s and divorce from Quaid

        …with Hanks and Ephron for You’ve Got Mail (1998), she had been dubbed “America’s Sweetheart.” In the early 2000s she continued playing likeable heroines in Hanging Up (2000), which was directed by Diane Keaton and written by Ephron and her sister Delia Ephron, as well as in the romantic comedy…

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