I will admit to a grudging like that has grown into a genuine fondness for the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan film, You’ve Got Mail. I am a sucker, it seems, for Tom Hanks (some day I will explain that for the benefit of Mad) and for people who fall in love through the beauty of an exchange of words.

The film is actually a remake of an old Jimmy Stewart romantic comedy, The Shop Around the Corner from 1940 where two employees of a gift shop actively despise one another while unknowingly corresponding as anonymous pen pals. The Meg Ryan character in You’ve Got Mail owns a children’s bookshop called The Shop Around the Corner and she and the Hanks character meet and fall in love exchanging email under pseudonyms.

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