10 Famous Movies You Had No Idea Were Actually Remakes
8. You've Got Mail (1998)
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You Know It As... That rom-com where Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love using those new-fangled email things. Yes, You've Got Mail set out to be the hippest rom-com of its day, taking into account that it was the late '90s, AOL was king, and people could possibility flirt using their email accounts. This was the third movie to star Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and it was also the last. The plot concerns two people who don't see eye to eye in real life, but begin to slowly fall in love through anonymous email correspondences. It's schmalzy, but it's a fair enough rom-com. It's A Remake Of...The Shop Around The Corner (1940), an Ernst Lubitsch movie starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, about - you guessed it - two people who don't see eye to eye in real life, but slowly fall in love through... email correspondences? Nope... in the original movie, it's letters, because c'mon, it's the '40s. For You've Got Mail, the writers simply swapped out the letter device and exchanged it for emails. Which was nice, because AOL got all that precious product placement. Trivia: Meg Ryan's bookstore in Mail is called "The Shop Around The Corner."