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You've Got Mail

ComedyRomance

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. From TMDB

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  • Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2023

    "You've Got Mail" is the single most 1998 movie ever made. Maybe the single most "End of History" movie ever made.

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  • ProJared @projared.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    Lady on my flight is unironically watching the movie "You've Got Mail" in 2026.

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  • Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2024

    "Oppenheimer" and "You've Got Mail" are basically the same movie.

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  • Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    HELP!--PEDAGOGY! I'm teaching a new lit & film course called "Fictions of Writing and Publishing" about representations of cultural production. Think watching "You've Got Mail" paired with reading Percival Everett & Mona Awad novels. What critical-theoretical lit & film readings would you teach?

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  • Vivienne Marlowe @smutsuccviv.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    Im watching You've Got Mail for the first time in years OMG THEYRE HAVING AN AFFAIR???? THATS THE WHOLE MOVIE????

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  • BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.orgBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    I now want to have a Bookstore Romance Day panel discussion with the premise of "You've Got Mail Is Not a Rom-com: It is, at the least, a tragedy. It's possible it's a horror movie." A panel of indie booksellers & authors shooting down every argument for YGM supremacy, one by one.

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    Nora Ephron's complete cluelessness about the internet (which was unintentionally hilarious in You've Got Mail) actually helped the film version, I think. It adds an appealing gauzy naivete. That and licensing Julia Child's memoirs instead of the jarring and odd fan fiction in Julie & Julia.

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  • Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    you know what else I hate about the movie You've Got Mail is that Meg Ryan is almost completely in the wrong in the fight she has with Greg Kinnear right before they break up it is ACTUALLY INSANE if her auntie/surrogate mother fell in love with Generalissimo Franco. & she was WRONG not to vote.

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  • Anil Dash @anildash.comBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    lol I loved the reference. Do you know that Kate Bush and Prince did a song that starts with the AOL "You've Got Mail" sound? It wasn't inspired by the movie, but I like to imagine it was.

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  • Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2023

    Favorite stalker horror movie: "You've Got Mail" or "Sleepless In Seattle" ?

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  • Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Just thinking about when I threw a very thoughtfully-planned You've Got Mail theme party and 2 out of the 30 invited showed up. One had never seen the movie and didn't know why I had a eucalyptus candle going, or daisies, or tall decaf cappuccinos. I was bummer, but I didn't bomb Iran over it.

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  • DrFran & Murray @drfranb.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    Best #Christmas Movie. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Basis of the Broadway show She Loves Me and the very famous You've Got Mail. James Steward and Margaret O'Sullivan

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  • Alec the bread boy @alecisbaking.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    1. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2. The Princess Bride 3. Speed Racer 4. Singin' in the Rain 5. Moonstruck 6. Weekend 7. Batman Mask of the Phantasm 8. My Own Private Idaho 9. Glass Onion 10. Cool Runnings 11. Digimon the Movie 12. Dial M for Murder 13. You've Got Mail 14. The Killer 15. Clueless

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  • Peeled Banana 🔞 @peeledbana.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2026

    is a You've Got Mail ['98 movie, not the bl book 😂] bc I love the idea of the entire thing for moshang fr. If you haven't watched either of these, go (and rot with me). In fact, I feel if you like my sappy stuff, you might rly like you've got mail- /slapped

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  • Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2023

    Last post for my newsletter of 2023, marking the 25th anniversary of the release of You've Got Mail, looks at how the film served to normalise online relationships. All reposts much appreciated. #Skystorians 🗃️#filmsky

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  • Matthew Southworth @matthewsouthworth.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    This movie, man. What a beautiful, strange thing. If you didn't see it, thinking it's a wacky You've Got Mail-type romantic comedy, well, you're sorta right. But also NOT right. This is a big piece of *art* that affects me decades later, moreso as friends & I face illness & the end. See this movie.

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  • Austin Tashis @austintashis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2026

    Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail are really the same movie. Change my mind.

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  • A Bun @drakemohkami.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    Sorry Sober Bun. Zodiac was not on Netflix anymore. We're watching 'You've Got Mail' tonight. I know it wasn't an option for school, but it is a great fucking movie. We're welcome.

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  • Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    Barnes & Noble is the corporate supervillain in "YOU'VE GOT MAIL," a movie that itself is a reference to a then-omnipresent corporation that no longer exists. War never changes.

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  • Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2024

    I rewatched You've Got Mail (1998) probably for the first time since the 90s and it was so fun to see 90s NYC. Also hilarious that Starbucks got such huge placement in the movie. The movie is supposedly about how bad chain superstores are but in reality, ultimately the movie loves them.

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  • Lady Iris @ladyiris5.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 20: Somebody is under the weather in a movie You've Got Mail

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  • Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 3/20: Somebody is under the weather in a movie You've Got Mail - Meg Ryan has a terrible cold youtu.be/Z-UOnQWH8T8?...

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  • Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    I'm actually kind of low-key into how much the Godfather permeated movie dialogue in the late 90s, like You've Got Mail and Thinner had characters quoting The Godfather

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  • Portuguese Village Elder @hellsdaydream.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2023

    Imagining a TERF who thinks the Wachowksis transitioned to unfairly steal the title of highest grossing film directed by a woman of the 1990s from You've Got Mail.

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  • Power Nap @chriscudby.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    Watching the late '90s romantic comedy film 'You've Got Mail' Looking forward to the sequel: 'You've Got 15 Gigabytes Of Data In Your Google Drive'

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  • ~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    —"I would have asked for your number. And I wouldn't have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you and saying, 'Hey, how about… oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks, or dinner, or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?'" ~ You've Got Mail

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  • Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    #FebruaryMovieChallenge 2/15: Teddy bear in a movie You've Got Mail - Kathleen visits Fox Books youtu.be/ps2CGU-JZw0?...

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  • Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2025

    #MayWeDance I tend towards comedic media in general more than drama. Favorite Movie: You've Got Mail (It's meh, but it's why Tempest and I met.) Favorite Book: Uncommonly Tidy Poltergeists Favorite Show: Our Flag Means Death #WriteSky #Writers #WritingCommunity

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  • Champi(JUMP-SCARE) @champierth.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    Make a movie scarier: You've Got Mail From the Boss

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  • Haylezilla Minus Zero @heyhayley.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    Next movie of the night is You've Got Mail, based on that classic Gentlebeard fic by @beabonnet.bsky.social

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  • bingeling @bingel.ingBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    I'm doing my yearly You've Got Mail rewatch. Uuuuugh, I love that movie so much.

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  • ☢️ Captain Antagonist ☢️ @captantagonist.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2025

    Add a letter ruin a movie You've Got Mail Because....because they correspond through email you see. It wouldn't work if they were waiting for paper letters in the mail. This is a meta joke. We are laughing.

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  • Lil Miss Sinister Fairy Godbitch of the Burrow Mump 🧚‍♂️😈🌾 @fairygodmegan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    You've Got Mail, 1998, was the last and only movie that made meeting online and dating via DMs seem even slightly romantic.

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  • Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Exceptions noted, I don't connect with Nora Ephron's humor. Yet I've read younger film writers praise her. What am I missing? I try to figure it out after watching YOU'VE GOT MAIL for the first time. wp.me/pzXeC-lAF

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    Not terrible because the leads are charismatic but there's something annoying about a film that wants you to think of You've Got Mail so much that it name checks it and Meg Ryan on separate occasions. Plus tonal imbalance between cartoonish comedic performances and more earnest romantic stuff 🍿

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  • Jacquline @jacqulinetan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    Is it time? For my annual rewatch of the greatest movie ever made?? The 1998 romantic comedy masterpiece You've Got Mail ?

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  • Julia @foxgrrl.northsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2023

    I had never seen the 1998 film "You've Got Mail" until recently and I don't understand why anyone believes that this movie is romantic; It is a horror film! A woman has her business and life's work destroyed by a manipulative liar, who expects to sleep with her afterward. That's terrifying!

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  • ♔ 𝖽ⲇⲙⲇⳋⲉ𝖽 𓃠 ⲫⳙⲉⲉⲛ ♔ @damagedqueen.satan.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Post a 90s movie that starts with the letter X, Y or Z? The X-Files (1998) You've Got Mail (1998) Zeus and Roxanne (1997) #moviesky #filmsky #lastday

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  • Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    My mother in law referred to the film You've Got Mail as "I Sent you an Email', and Rear Window as Rear View Mirror.

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  • Alex Nelson @aenelson4.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2026

    I'm rewatching one of my favorite movies from my pre-teen years, 'You've Got Mail,' and it really makes me wonder how this film is the basis of my personality.

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  • Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    #SeptemberMovieChallenge #filmsky #moviesky 18/9: Big reveal at end of movie YOU'VE GOT MAIL Meg Ryan discovers that Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is her online email beau

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  • Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    Of course, Schlesinger then decided to stick with Everybody's Talkin' anyway, despite Nilsson's new song being lyrically tailored to the content of the film (and also, IMO, a better song). Ah well. It turned up in You've Got Mail instead. Which is not as good a film as Midnight Cowboy.

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  • Sarra Manning @sarramanning.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2025

    I've been at an all day celebration with old friends, which has been lovely but now I have nothing left in the energy meter. Can't decide which film this evening will soothe me more; Sleepless In Seattle or You've Got Mail.

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  • Steve Quick @stevequick.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2023

    How much of the film "You've Got Mail" would you have to explain to a teen? Instant Message... on AOL... dial-up? Romance through rambling email? Independent bookstore a thriving business? Meg Ryan a bankable star?

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  • Today On Screen @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 16, 2023

    Today, September 16, NYC indie bookstore owner Kathleen Kelly and corporate exec Joe Fox are starting their workdays and logging into AOL to check their email (You’ve Got Mail, 1998) #Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #YouveGotMail

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  • Marilynn Morose @scarymarilynn.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    AOL's Sleepless in Seattle: You've Got Mail the Movie

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  • Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2026

    #AprilMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky Day 21. Grocery Store in a movie YOU'VE GOT MAIL

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  • Sarah Grey @sarahlynngrey.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    This movie is very bad, but for my money You've Got Mail is even worse somehow. Both are wretched.

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  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    and 'clean' entertainment with Very Moral Very Good Romance that can end up being pretty twisted. You've Got Mail is one hell of a twisted film if you think about it!

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  • alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2025

    Wrote about my favourite film You've Got Mail as part of @theguardian.com's My Feelgood Movie series: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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  • Coulter @crg0.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    Watched You've Got Mail recently and realized that Birdie is the store's business intelligence analyst trying to inform Kathleen about trends since the competitor opened nearby. "They've been open 6 days. And we did $1,200 less than the same week last year." I loved seeing the old school keyboard.

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  • Sleepless in YYC @kvlovely19.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    next movie Shop Around the Corner starring Jimmy Stewart from 1940. a black and white film. You've Got Mail is based off this film.

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  • Today On Screen @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 16, 2024

    Today, September 16, NYC indie bookstore owner Kathleen Kelly and corporate exec Joe Fox are starting their workdays and logging into AOL to check their email (You’ve Got Mail, 1998) #Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #YouveGotMail

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  • Isaac's Haunted Beard @isaacshauntedbeard.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2023

    Last night's film: YOU'VE GOT MAIL

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  • The Real Beardium @beardium.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    Let's have pun with movie titles. I'll start. You've Got Mail....Pattern Baldness

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  • MK Forever Blue @mkforeverblue.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    George Fenton, Oscar-Nominated Composer for ‘Cry Freedom’ and ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Dies at 76 He also worked on 'Groundhog Day,' 'You've Got Mail,' 'Hitch,' 'Fool's Gold' and 'Planet Earth,' among many other films. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    #Bales2026FilmChallenge #Bales2026MovieChallenge Oct. 2 - romcom you would recommend to someone who hates romcoms You've Got Mail (1998) #filmsky #moviesky

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  • yangmal (socks)⁷ @ddaengbiased.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2026

    Oh the taegi one especially knocked me flat on my ass. You've Got Mail?? The movie responsible for about 90% of my personality? taegi as rival booksellers? Get outttttt~

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  • Caroline Siede @carolinesiede.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    My only note is that the movie keeps describing itself as a You've Got Mail scenario when it's actually a Sleepless in Seattle scenario. But I'll let that slide because I got the vibe

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  • мальчик-гей @riz0me.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    careening directly into You've Got Mail (1998) - another tolerable movie about straight people - and the way this film opens with "you think this [laptop's] your friend, but it's not!" wow, i wish y2k were real

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