"You've Got Mail" is a quarter-century old, but some of its themes resonate more than ever – for better and for worse.
The 1998 rom-com "You've Got Mail" is the most recent onscreen retelling of a story based on the 1937 Hungarian play "Parfumerie" that was later adapted into 1940's "The Shop Around the Corner" and 1949's "In the Good Old Summertime. Nora Ephron's take on the tale follows Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), two anonymous online friends who instant message through AOL. But what they don't realize is that they are enemies in real life because Joe runs the mega book store Fox Books (modeled after Barnes & Noble) that is putting Kathleen's independent book store The Shop Around the Corner out of business.
