You’ve Got Mail is a contemporary twist on the novel Pride and Prejudice, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Their roles in this movie are nice & funny, but cannot compete with their previous pairing in Sleepless in Seattle. Tom Hanks plays our Darcy-hero in this movie about a romance that’s unlikely but ‘Just Around the Corner”. As a rich, bookstore chain owner, Joe (played by Hanks) sweeps through neighborhoods crushing his independent bookstore-owner-enemies, but unbeknownst to him, his cyberpal is none other than Kathleen (Ryan), an owner of a nostalgic bookshop – his rival. Sparks of anger fly, but soon turn to sparks of romance, as their misunderstandings become replaced by love.
Darcy Through the Years – 1998
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Pepper Basham writes Blue Ridge romances sprinkled with grace and humor. She is a regular contributor of Christian Fiction Online Magazine and blogger at The Writer's Alley. A mom of five, speech-language pathologist, crazy-hat wearer, and lover of chocolate, you can find her chatting about life or giving book reviews on her personal blog, Words Seasoned with Salt. Pepper is represented by the classy and prolific Rachel McMillan of the William K Jensen Literary Agency View all posts by pepperbasham
I love this movie but never connected it to P&P. Just one more reason to love it!
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Definitely. The fact that she's reading the book helps too 🙂
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You've Got Mail is a remake of the Jimmy Stewart film The Shop Around the Corner [Nora Ephron’s nod to the original film is naming Meg Ryan character's bookstore after the first film) which is itself an adaptation of a Hungarian play Illatszertar. In all three films there is the Darcy, Lizzie initial dislike each other that gives way to love.
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You're right, I never thought about it either. I really enjoy this movie. I just have a problem with him completely making her go out of business and then it's all happy and OK because they're in love. It just seems a little phony to me and that in real life it would be so much more traumatic and dramatic. But that's why it's a movie!
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