What is the iRankMovies score for You've Got Mail?

Name: You've Got Mail
Director: Nora Ephron
Genre: comedy, romance
Released: 1998
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Rating: 6.7

You've Got Mail has an iRankMovies score of 65.7/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

You've Got Mail (1998)

Someone you pass on the street may already be the love of your life.

Release:1998

Runtime:1h 59m

Country:United States

Director:Nora Ephron

Language:English

Genre

ComedyRomance

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Keywords

BookshopBusinessmanAnonymous LetterRomcomFalling In LoveManhattan New York CityClass ConflictOnline Dating

iRank66

You've Got Mail rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.7/10· 244K votes

Rotten Tomatoes69%

Metacritic58%

TMDb6.705/10· 4K votes

With 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.7/10 on IMDb and 58/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About You've Got Mail

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

Cast of You've Got Mail

Meg Ryan
as Kathleen Kelly
Tom Hanks
as Joe Fox
Greg Kinnear
as Frank Navasky
Parker Posey
as Patricia Eden
Heather Burns
as Christina Plutzker
Dave Chappelle
as Kevin Jackson
Jean Stapleton
as Birdie Conrad
Steve Zahn
as George Pappas
Dabney Coleman
as Nelson Fox
John Randolph
as Schulyer Fox
Hallee Hirsh
as Annabelle Fox
Jeffrey Scaperrotta
as Matt Fox

You've Got Mail facts

Budget: $65M
Box office: $250.8M

Our take on You've Got Mail

Nora Ephron's 1998 romantic comedy pairs Joe Fox, a book superstore magnate, with Kathleen Kelly, who runs a beloved independent bookshop he's about to put out of business. The twist: they've fallen for each other anonymously online, neither knowing their charming email pen pal is their real-world rival. Ephron mines gentle comedy from the gap between how people quarrel in person and how tenderly they connect through words. It's a warm, literate, unhurried film about identity, second impressions, and the romance of writing to a stranger. Best for viewers who like their love stories bookish and bittersweet, and anyone nostalgic for the early, hopeful internet.

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