
You’ve Got Mail is a movie directed by Nora Ephron in 1998 and inspired by the play Parfumerie by Miklós László, first published in 1937. The movie features Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn, Jean Stapleton, and others.
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Storyline
Kathleen Kelly is in a relationship with Frank Navasky, a left-leaning newspaper writer for The New York Observer who is always in search of an opportunity to root for the underdog. Using the screen name Shopgirl, she reads an email from NY152, the screen name of Joe Fox, whom she first met in an over-30s chatroom.
Movie vs Book

Year
1998
Minutes
119
Movie Rate
6.70
Source: IMDb
Movie
You've Got Mail
Director: Nora Ephron
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Length: 1h59m
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Year
1937
Pages
120
Book Rate
7.70
S: Goodreads
Book
Parfumerie
Original title: Illatszertár
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Ernst Lubitsch
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