You've Got Mail (1998)

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Wikidata Q284229, film, IMDb tt0128853, TMDB 9489: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Greg Kinnear as actor (As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard); 1 more episode agrees.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

The Rewatchables' awards

From 'You’ve Got Mail' With Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins (2017-08-31):

Most rewatchable scene

  1. pick The early New York montage of the two leads walking the Upper West Side, with the Cranberries cue, ending at the Zabar's checkout.
    “It's very early in the movie, but it's the montage of New York and the 2 of them walking around the upper west side and they walk past each other in the cranberries are playing.”
    Amanda Dobbins · 0:13:54
  2. pick Kathleen and Joe meet in person in the bookstore, with the kid spelling F-O-X.
    “My most rewatchable scene just a little bit later.”
    Juliet Litman · 0:15:34

Aged Best · What about the movie holds up best.

  1. pick The movie's predictions about New York changing and online romance: Chain stores replacing the neighborhood shops, and meeting romantic partners over text on the internet, all came true.
    “You know what's funny is that this movie, everything this movie predicted came true.”
    unknown · 0:17:48
  2. pick Kathleen Kelly's apartment and clothes: The sunny junior one-bedroom and her wardrobe are back in style.
    “I think the 2 things that have aged the best are, 1st of all, Kathleen Kelly's apartment.”
    unknown · 0:20:36
  3. pick The original catfishing: The pen-pal deception plot as part of the lineage of catfishing.
    “So this is like part of the lineage of the beginning of catfishing.”
    unknown · 0:21:44

Aged Worst · What about the movie has aged poorly (Bill Simmons texted that it aged worst of all time).

  1. pick Meg Ryan's haircut: Of its moment, though one host thinks it looks fantastic on her.
    “One, I would say, even though her clothes are great, her hair is not great.”
    unknown · 0:24:15
  2. pick Joe Fox hiding at Cafe Lalo until he decides she is pretty enough: The focus on whether she is beautiful enough to be worth meeting feels superficial now.
    “Well, that segues into one of the things that doesn't age well for me, which is when Tom Hanks goes to meet Meg Ryan for the 1st time.”
    unknown · 0:26:11
  3. pick Funny and sentimental tone, now rare: A modern version would be weepier, like This Is Us.
    “Yeah, funny and sentimental doesn't really exist anymore.”
    unknown · 0:27:46
  4. pick Greg Kinnear's character working for the Observer, now owned by Jared Kushner
    “Another thing is, um, Greg Kinnear's character works for the observer.”
    unknown · 0:29:33

Half-assed internet research · Quick internet digging on the movie.

  1. pick The original 1998 Warner Brothers promotional website, still online
    “And the original website still exists from Warner Brothers, when the movie came out in 1998.”
    unknown · 0:30:01
  2. pick Critics objected to the product placement (AOL, Starbucks)
    “But some of some people took issue with the level of product placement and you've got mail.”
    unknown · 0:31:17

Dion Waiters Award · Best heat check performance by a role player.

  1. winner Parker Posey as Tom Hanks's girlfriend, the book editor: Limited screen time, big impact, plus her love of the 1990s book editor life.
    “I think it has, for me, it has to go to Parker Posey.”
    Amanda Dobbins · 0:34:40
  2. winner Steve Zahn as George, the bookstore employee: Teetered toward Parker Posey, but went with Zahn since she was already picked; also loves his pairing with That Thing You Do.
    “going with Steve Zon.”
    Juliet Litman · 0:35:43

Most Offensively Enjoyable Rom-Com Cliche · The cliche the movie leans on that shouldn't work but does.

  1. pick Kathleen taking back the man who put her family bookstore out of business, after Joe's speech: Preposterous, but Tom Hanks's performance gets them every time.
    “There is no fucking way that a woman who respects herself and her business, like Meg Ryan, would lovingly accept the man that has put her family business out of business.”
    unknown · 0:36:58

What if it were made today · Who could remake it now.

  1. pick Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone: They could remake You've Got Mail, set in Brooklyn, though not Sleepless in Seattle.
    “Gosling and stone could remake you've got mail.”
    Juliet Litman · 0:39:33

Apex Mountain · Is this the peak of the star's or filmmaker's career?

  1. pick Tom Hanks as Joe Fox: Not his apex, though the streak is; the performance is effortless.
    “It's not his apex.”
    unknown · 0:42:18
  2. pick Nora Ephron: Not the peak film, but the one watched and quoted most; When Harry Met Sally changed everything.
    “It's not the peak, Nora, but it's peak to me.”
    unknown · 0:43:12
  3. pick Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly: One host says this is her peak with a precipitous drop-off after; the other gives the edge to When Harry Met Sally.
    “I do think, however, this is peak Meg Ryan.”
    unknown · 0:43:19

Unintentional comedy · The funniest thing in the movie that isn't meant to be.

  1. pick The houseboats
    “there is one unintentional, greatdic thing, which is the presence of houseboats.”
    unknown · 0:46:08

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

  1. pick Zabar's cashier given an unidentified accent and a knock-knock joke: The one cheap moment, and uncomfortable in a very white movie.
    “Making Sarah Ramirez have like a weird, unidentified accent, like turning her into like some kind of like ethnic cashier, that wouldn't fly.”
    unknown · 0:47:40
  2. pick The book moguls as mohair-couch supervillains with matching boats
    “I do pause at the idea of, uh, 3 like book moguls as these supervillain mohair couch swaggering guys with matching boats in the in the pier at 72nd Street or wherever it is and somewhere around.”
    unknown · 0:46:35

Best Quote · Favorite line of the movie.

  1. pick The bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils line
    “If I knew your name and address, I would send you a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils, which I was just thinking today.”
    Amanda Dobbins · 0:48:28
  2. pick Hello, New Jersey
    “Mine is when they just yell, hello, New Jersey because it's so silly.”
    Juliet Litman · 0:49:02
  3. nominee Meg Ryan yelling 'sushi' as Greg Kinnear leaves: Named as a runner-up.
    “So that's my runner-up.”
    unknown · 0:49:25
  4. nominee Greg Kinnear calling her a lone reed
    “I also really like when Greg Kinnear calls her a lone read, alone read.”
    unknown · 0:49:27
  5. nominee Kathleen on people who introduce themselves by first name only, like cocktail waitresses
    “Don't they know you're supposed to have a last name, which I think about a lot?”
    unknown · 0:50:08

Unanswerable Questions · Open questions the movie leaves hanging.

  1. pick The economics of the shop around the corner
    “One of the economics of the shop around the corner.”
    Juliet Litman · 0:50:39
  2. pick Why Dave Chappelle is in this movie
    “Why is Dave Chappelle in this movie?”
    Juliet Litman · 0:51:24
  3. pick Whether the Foxes are still rich today
    “Would you say the foxes are still rich today?”
    Juliet Litman · 0:52:00

Who Won the Movie · Who came out on top of the movie.

  1. winner Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly: Winning and charming, and a real attachment to her character; it is all downhill for Ryan after this.
    “I just find her so winning and charming and I don't know.”
    Amanda Dobbins · 0:52:43
  2. winner Tom Hanks as Joe Fox: An effortless performance, not first-tier Hanks but essential to what makes him great.
    “I really like her, but for me, this is just, this is such an effortless, great Hanks performance.”
    Juliet Litman · 0:52:46

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Shop Around the Corner: 2 lines the host's read ×2

  1. craft (craft): The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring.
    “3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:57:29 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Ninotchka: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture.
    “I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

She Loves Me (stage musical): 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical.
    “She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read). The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally.
    “Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Sleepless in Seattle: 4 lines theme ×2 contrast ×1 craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Both Hanks-Ryan films are experiments on the rom-com: one withholds the couple until the last scene, the other puts them together and makes them unpleasant.
    “sleepless in Seattle is obviously like, can you create a rom-com with chemistry between the 2 actors without them ever actually communicating until the last scene of the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:31:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Shop Around the Corner: 3 lines lineage ×1 contrast ×1 craft ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner. In every earlier version the rivals are coworkers whose jobs are at stake; here they run rival businesses and she is not poor.
    “So so much of the rivalry between the 2 characters is they're fighting for who becomes the most valuable employee of this store because if one of them nudges out the other, their entire life might be ruined.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally: 3 lines contrast ×1 theme ×1 lineage ×1

  1. theme (theme): You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally. Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn.
    “And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Greg Kinnear: 2 lines career ×1 industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene.
    “Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

Hanging Up: 2 lines lineage ×1 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out.
    “you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Enough Said: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Enough Said → You've Got Mail. Enough Said is Bobby's favorite rom-com since You've Got Mail, with the same messy, deceitful lovers.
    “the brom-com that I think is my favorite, since you've got mail, is probably enough said, which I think captures this dynamic pretty closely”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:34:19 · Bobby Finger (0.60 sure it was them)

Julie & Julia: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): You've Got Mail → Julie & Julia. Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films.
    “And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Kate & Leopold: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Kate & Leopold → You've Got Mail. Ryan ended the millennium with her third go-round with Hanks and Ephron in You've Got Mail.
    “So she ends off the millennium with like fucking 3rd time around with Hanks, Efron again, just doing the exact thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

Nancy Meyers: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Nancy Meyers → You've Got Mail. Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not.
    “Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:08:26 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Ninotchka: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → Ninotchka. Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture.
    “I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

She Loves Me (stage musical): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → She Loves Me (stage musical). Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical.
    “She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Godfather: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): You've Got Mail → The Godfather. Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen.
    “There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:01:09 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

The Net: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → The Net. You've Got Mail has aged far better than The Net, which claimed to understand the internet.
    “Like it has aged so much better than a movie like the net.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:42:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Working Girl: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Working Girl → You've Got Mail. You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work.
    “that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. After the film Kinnear keeps being the obstacle in someone else's romance.
    “He plays the Baxter in that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Kate & Leopold → You've Got Mail. Ryan ended the millennium with her third go-round with Hanks and Ephron in You've Got Mail.
    “So she ends off the millennium with like fucking 3rd time around with Hanks, Efron again, just doing the exact thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

contrast (6)

  1. contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally. This film's quotes are longer and less snappy than When Harry Met Sally's.
    “This movie doesn't have like something like when Harry Met Sally is so snappy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:01:15 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Sleepless in Seattle has a more convoluted plot yet runs an hour 45; You've Got Mail runs too long.
    “Like sleepless in Seattle, which has a more convoluted plot than this, is an hour 45.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:17:07 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner. In every earlier version the rivals are coworkers whose jobs are at stake; here they run rival businesses and she is not poor.
    “So so much of the rivalry between the 2 characters is they're fighting for who becomes the most valuable employee of this store because if one of them nudges out the other, their entire life might be ruined.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): You've Got Mail → The Net. You've Got Mail has aged far better than The Net, which claimed to understand the internet.
    “Like it has aged so much better than a movie like the net.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:42:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Nancy Meyers → You've Got Mail. Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not.
    “Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:08:26 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out.
    “you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner. Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring.
    “3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:57:29 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): You've Got Mail → The Godfather. Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen.
    “There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:01:09 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Both Hanks-Ryan films are experiments on the rom-com: one withholds the couple until the last scene, the other puts them together and makes them unpleasant.
    “sleepless in Seattle is obviously like, can you create a rom-com with chemistry between the 2 actors without them ever actually communicating until the last scene of the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:31:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene.
    “Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

lineage (6)

  1. lineage (lineage): Working Girl → You've Got Mail. You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work.
    “that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally. The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally.
    “Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → The Shop Around the Corner. Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake.
    “Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → She Loves Me (stage musical). Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical.
    “She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): You've Got Mail → Ninotchka. Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture.
    “I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie.
    “isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (theme): You've Got Mail → Julie & Julia. Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films.
    “And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle.
    “The Apple and sleepless in Seattle.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): You've Got Mail → When Harry Met Sally. Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn.
    “And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): You've Got Mail → Sleepless in Seattle. Ryan's loneliness is only hinted at in Sleepless but is the persistent subject here.
    “This movie's so much more honest about how sad she is.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:59:28 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Enough Said → You've Got Mail. Enough Said is Bobby's favorite rom-com since You've Got Mail, with the same messy, deceitful lovers.
    “the brom-com that I think is my favorite, since you've got mail, is probably enough said, which I think captures this dynamic pretty closely”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:34:19 · Bobby Finger (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about You've Got Mail: The garnish caviar scene is pure Ephron etiquette advice, slipped into a movie.
    “She even puts it in a freaking movie that says, the caviar is a garnish.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:02:43 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about You've Got Mail: Lindsey and Bobby ran an annotated, pop-up-video style screening at Housing Works with a raffle of items Ephron donated; Bobby met his husband there.
    “Because it's the day I met my husband?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:07:57 · Bobby Finger (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about You've Got Mail: To fit a hard out the screening cut the Dabney Coleman and father subplot and nobody noticed.
    “And we cut the Dabney Coleman subplot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:13:45 · Lindsey Weber (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about You've Got Mail: A cut serial-killer-on-rooftops subplot survives in fragments; the final reference explains why he ghosted her.
    “they caught the rooftop killer and they're like, well, that explains it, and then they're done.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:21:08 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about You've Got Mail: AOL let the filmmakers use the title free; two years on it was overplayed and three years on AOL was bombing.
    “And then AOL let them use it free.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:41:13 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about You've Got Mail: The fall leaves in the movie are CGI because they shot in the summer, per the commentary track by Ephron and Schuler Donner.
    “They're like, all of the fall stuff is CGI, baby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about You've Got Mail: The Zabar's scene was shot overnight from 10 PM to 5 AM; Hanks used the store PA to keep the extras happy.
    “So they filmed the entire thing from like 10 PM until 5 AM.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:12:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about You've Got Mail: The box office for December 18, 1998: You've Got Mail at number one, ahead of Prince of Egypt, A Bug's Life, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Jack Frost.
    “So number one, though, it's you've got mail, $18 million.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:50:48 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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