You've Got Mail [VHS]

You've Got Mail [VHS]
by Nora Ephron

You've Got Mail [VHS]

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Actor: Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Tom Hanks
Director: Nora Ephron
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 119 minutes
Release Date: 1999-05-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of You've Got Mail [VHS]

Movie Review: You Got Mail (Deluxe Edition)
Summary: 1 Stars

I bought this from DVDLEGACY and I still didn't get my order ! It has been over a month. I am writing to DVDLEGACY and still no answer ! Don't buy from DVDLEGACY because your going to get ripped off !

Movie Review: You've Got Mail review
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is a fabulous movie. It is both funny and romantic!! Highly reccommended.

Movie Review: Classic modern e-love story
Summary: 4 Stars

Hanks and Ryan team up again for another hit love story. I loved these two in Sleepless in Seattle, and I really love them in this cute e-love story. If you want to laugh, cry and just feel good inside then you'll enjoy You've Got Mail. Four stars for predictability.

I bought this to put my order over $25 so I could get free shipping from Amazon. Definitely a good deal as I would have paid more for S&H alone if I hadn't ordered this little gem. Ordered this on a Friday and received it the next Wednesday. There was no box sleeve on my deluxe edition DVD, but I didn't mind as I always toss those anyway. Great product at a great price. Thanks, Amazon.

Movie Review: Cute, but not perfect.
Summary: 4 Stars

You've Got Mail is a cute love story between two people whose personalities click despite the fact that they initially seem like total opposites. It's a good choice when you just want to sit down and watch something happy, clean, lightly-romantic, and good for a few laughs.

The storyline isn't without its flaws, though. It seems a little bit too convenient that both of the main characters go through easy breakups with their previous partners. Kelly and her boyfriend just happen to have no feelings for each other, making their breakup seem like a completely pleasant and happy moment with no emotional repercussions. Joe's breakup conveniently isn't shown, and he doesn't seem to face any emotional stress afterwards, either. In the real world, one almost hopes that intimate relationships are a little bit more difficult to end, but in the movie we're supposed to be happy enough for Joe and Kelly that we just kind of want to get the break-ups out of the way so we can get on with the romance we want to see between the two main characters. In the real, non-Hollywood world I've seen that e-relationships aren't quite so easy to manage, but everything falls nicely into place for the movie's main characters, regardless of the odds.

Despite the movie's improbabilities, I still enjoyed it and thought the story was sweet. I'd watch it again with my sisters or friends for some light-hearted fun. But don't let it encourage you to rush into internet chatrooms searching for the love of your life. ;-) You're just as likely to meet the dreaded kind of person Joe suggests Kelly's attachment might be: married, jailbird, drinker, 150 years old...you name it!

Movie Review: Oh, How I Love This Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

YOU'VE GOT MAIL is just a great movie. It is fueled by a winning, witty script, charismatic and charming acting, and pin-point direction. Aside from just being well-made technically, it's just a cute, family-friendly movie that will make you laugh and smile. This is truly a 10 out-of 10 movie.

Starting with the script. This film is a remake of the `40s classic THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, which I haven't seen, but am sure must be good. From what I've read and heard, this movie follows the story pretty closely, except it uses e-mail instead of physical letters. This film can also be compared very easily to the previous hit SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, which also paired Hanks and Ryan with director Nora Ephron. In fact, this movie is probably closest to SLEEPLESS than any other movie. Though it's based on previous material, compare the plots for a second: In SLEEPLESS Hanks, had a son, and here he has a dog. In SLEEPLESS, they are connected by a call-in-radio show, and here it's by internet. In this film they meet before the end, unlike SLEEPLESS, but the official "recognition of affection" scene is at the end. Really, it follows the same basic plot of SLEEPLESS, with these minor substitutions. The similarities work to its advantage though, and the story suceeds. The ending left me a bit puzzled though; don't worry, I won't spoil anything. It may may you think for a while, but pretty soon after the close I thought it made sense. The actual screenplay by Nora Ephron and her sister Delia is witty and charming, and Ryan and Hanks execute it perfectly.

The acting in YOU'VE GOT MAIL is pitch-perfect too. Hanks is great as his character, really, he is Goliath to Meg Ryans's David. This could be a really hard part to play, as, of course, Meg's character has to fall for him in the end, though she loathes him throughout the film. But Hanks carries the character very well, he's likeable in his role. I don't know if it was just me, but I thought that Ryan was radiant in this movie, even more so than in SLEEPLESS. She seems so at ease in her role, and she 100% absorbs her character. She's a complete joy to watch. Though the supporting cast isn't as full as SLEEPLESS, they're still good, with Greg Kinnear as Ryan's partner (an over-the-top columnist) and Parker Posey as Hanks's superficial girlfriend.

This is just a great movie. My whole family loves it, and it is really a romantic comedy that appeals to guys just as much as girls, as it drips with much more wit and humor than over-the-top sentimentality. This is really a great film to watch, and if you watch it on Valentine's Day you'll appreciate it even more. It's well-made and fun to watch. Highly recommended.

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Summary of You've Got Mail [VHS]

By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You've Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron's previous excursion with the duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on, but Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature's gentle, extended tease of saving its romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot.

The underlying narrative is an even more old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The script, cowritten by the director and her sister Delia Ephron, updates and relocates the Ernst Lubitsch classic The Shop Around the Corner to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks) is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller, more specialized shops such as the children's bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly (Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighborhood, yet they first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes.

It's no small testament to the two stars that we wind up liking and caring about them despite the inevitable (and highly manipulative) arc of the plot. Although their chemistry transcended the consciously improbable romantic premise of Sleepless, enabling director Ephron to attain a kind of amorous souffl?, this time around there's a slow leak that considerably deflates the affair. Less credulous viewers will challenge Joe's logic in prolonging the concealment of his online identity from Kathleen, and may shake their heads at Ephron's reinvention of Manhattan as a spotless, sun-dappled wonderland where everybody lives in million-dollar apartments and color coordinates their wardrobes for cocktail parties. --Sam Sutherland

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