Watch the kindhearted Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) fall in love with Tom Hanks’ Joe Fox (F-O-X) once more in director Nora Ephron’s You’ve Acquired Mail (1998). The must-see romantic comedy begins streaming Feb. 1, on Hulu, which is simply in time for Valentine’s Day. The movie and Kelly’s quaint bookstore, The Store Across the Nook, which is situated in New York Metropolis, are each nods to the long-lasting vacation traditional of the identical title starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.
You’ve Acquired Mail offered a contemporary tackle The Store Across the Nook (1940) by making Kathleen and Joe fall in love over a collection of emails they exchanged after assembly in a web-based chatroom. Whereas Mr. Kralik (Stewart) and Ms. Novak (Sullavan) exchanged adoring love letters as pen buddies. Nevertheless, the identical hook remained from the traditional: Neither of the characters in both movie knew their pen pal’s true identification till the ultimate scenes of the respective motion pictures.
Surprisingly, regardless of You’ve Acquired Mail’s enduring reputation with the followers, the movie displays reasonably common numbers on Rotten Tomatoes. The critics’ opinions led to the rom-com solely registering a Tomatometer score of 70%, whereas the Popcornmeter — previously the RT viewers rating — was solely a bit greater at 73% towards 250,000+ scores. Nevertheless, there wasn’t any denying how properly Hanks and Ryan’s 1998 team-up carried out on the field workplace when it debuted simply in time for Christmas nearly 30 years in the past.
‘You’ve Acquired Mail’ Was Bona Fide Field Workplace Boffo
You’ve Acquired Mail naturally ranks among the many finest Meg Ryan motion pictures of all time, but it surely doesn’t make it into MovieWeb’s rating of Tom Hanks’ movies. A Man Referred to as Otto, Finch, and Cloud Atlas all made the reduce, however not the beloved rom-com. Regardless, the traditional flick didn’t want rave opinions from the critics again in 1998 to turn out to be a bona fide field workplace hit. Audiences got here out in droves to see Hanks and Ryan again collectively once more after their undisputed success working collectively within the unforgettable Sleepless in Seattle (1993).
The trendy-day model of The Store Across the Nook introduced in a powerful $115.8 million domestically throughout its theatrical run in 1998 and 1999. Though You’ve Acquired Mail fared even higher abroad, consider it or not. Director Nora Ephron’s movie clearly appealed to a world viewers, too, because the rom-com made $135 million overseas for a worldwide complete of $250.8 million (per The Numbers). When adjusted for inflation, You’ve Acquired Mail would have tallied $482.7 million at at the moment’s field workplace.
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You’ve got Acquired Mail is likely one of the finest romantic comedies, though it was once more left wanting by MovieWeb’s all-time listing of rom-coms, which ranked About Time (2013) over the Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan-led When Harry Met Sally… (1989) for the No. 1 spot. Uncover why You’ve got Acquired Mail is so unbelievable when it begins streaming Saturday, Feb. 1, on Hulu.
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December 18, 1998
- Runtime
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119 minutes