You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNora Ephron
Screenplay by
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJohn Lindley
Edited byRichard Marks
Music byGeorge Fenton
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 18, 1998 (1998-12-18)
Running time
119 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$65 million[2]
Box office$250.8 million[2]

You've Got Mail is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Nora Ephron, and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan alongside Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Dave Chappelle, Steve Zahn, and Greg Kinnear. Inspired by the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László (which had earlier been adapted in 1940 as The Shop Around the Corner and in 1949 as In the Good Old Summertime),[3] the screenplay was co-written by Nora and Delia Ephron. It tells the story of two people in an online romance who are unaware they are also business rivals. It marked the third pairing of Hanks and Ryan, who previously appeared together in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), the latter directed by Ephron. The film takes its name from the greeting AOL users receive when they get a new email.

  1. ^ "You've Got Mail (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. January 11, 1999. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "You've Got Mail (1998)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
  3. ^ Rossen, Jake (August 17, 2016). "9 Movies That Are Remakes of Remakes". Mental Floss. Archived from the original on August 18, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2021.