"You've Got Mail" is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nora Ephron, co-written by Nora and Delia Ephron, and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The film is about two people in an online romance who are unaware that they are also business rivals. It marks the third coupling of stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, who had previously appeared together in "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990) and "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993).

Joe belongs to the Fox family which runs Fox Books — a chain of mega bookstores. Kathleen runs the independent bookstore "The Shop Around The Corner" that her mother ran before her. The two are shown passing each other on their respective ways to work, revealing that they frequent the same neighborhoods in upper west Manhattan.

"You've Got Mail" is based on the 1937 Hungarian play "Parfumerie" by Miklós László and its adaptations. "Parfumerie" was later remade as "The Shop Around the Corner", a 1940 film by Ernst Lubitsch, which in 1949 was adapted as a movie musical, "In the Good Old Summertime" by Robert Z. Leonard starring Judy Garland, and finally in 1963 as a Broadway musical with "She Loves Me" by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (composer and lyricist, respectively, of "Fiddler on the Roof"). "You've Got Mail" updates that concept with the use of e-mail.

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