Siskel: You've Got Cute Mail
Here is CBS 'This Morning' Contributor Gene Siskel's review of 'You've Got Mail.' At the end of the review, you can read more about the movie's three stars.
In You've Got Mail, which could be called "Quarreling in New York," the favorite movie couple - the good Tom Hanks and the impossibly cute Meg Ryan - have awakened from their dreams in Seattle and now play computer penpals who don't know each other's real-life identities or that they are bitter business rivals.
Hanks is the boss of his family's business, an empire of mega-bookstores, and his newest emporium threatens to crush Ryan's friendly children's shop around the corner. So they unknowingly have a crush on each other as they fight.
The director's remake of the 1940 classic The Shop Around the Corner in which the feuding lovers were pen pals - hey, remember writing and mailing letters? - is wide about the need for personalized service in the book business.
Greg Kinnear gives another good performance as "the other man," a newspaper columnist.
In the 1940 version of the story, the romantic lead was played by Jimmy Stewart, to whom Hanks often is compared. The similarity: their decency. We immediately want their characters to get whatever they want.
We don't want Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks to be "sleepless" in Seattle, New York, or cyberspace. Let's face it. If the two ever hook up, I'm sure we'd like to attend the wedding.
Click on the images below to read more about the cast of You've Got Mail:
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