Thursday, 20 November 2014

Mailing it in

You've Got Mail (1998)

Directed by Nora Ephron this film based on the play “Parfumerie” stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Two New Yorkers that communicated anonymously through email unknowingly become business rivals.

I found the previous collaboration between Ephron and these stars to be a bit worrying and there is some really odd behaviour in this rom-com too. Essentially the protagonists start out having emotional affairs and towards the end the male character tricks the female one by playing off his online and real identity which is pretty messed up. There is some charm to the film and it does seem ahead of it's time but the more you think about the plot the worse the central characters look.

2/5

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