Year of Release: 1940Country of Origin: USA
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Plot outline: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they're falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal (IMDb).
Is imagination better than reality? This is the movie that inspires You've Got Mail (itself inspired by Parfumerie, a Hungarian play written by Miklós László). While the romantic-comedy side of the story charmingly seeks the answer to that question, it is the major subplot of the shop's owner that notably gives the movie its depth. Without it the movie would have been less profound.
My judgement: *** out of 4 stars
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