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Directed by | Nora Ephron |
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Cinematography | John Lindley |
Edited by | Richard Marks |
Music by | George Fenton |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 119 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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. 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.