Plot
Kathleen Kelly, the owner of a small library of children's stories, sees her business in danger when a chain of large bookstores opens a store next to her store. When he meets Joe Fox, the son of the owner of the chain, he will immediately feel a great dislike for him. What they both ignore is that they maintain a relationship by email.
Awards
- 1998 Golden Globes: 1 0
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Trivia
Real location
The location of Fox Books in the movie is actually the location of a real-life Barnes & Noble, on Broadway and 83rd Street on the Upper West Side. The Barnes and Noble generated considerable neighborhood opposition when it opened in the early 1990s, as many feared it would drive a local bookseller, Shakespeare & Co. on 81st Street, out of business. This is exactly what happened.
Funny accident
The scene where Joe accidentally closes the door of Kathleen's shop on the balloons was unscripted. Tom Hanks actually did that, and ad libbed the line, "Good thing it wasn't the fish." Nora Ephron thought it was so funny that she kept it in.
Remake
A remake of the 1940 film El bazar de las sorpresas (1940) starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. The original film involved two employees at a leather goods store. (In the source play it was a perfumerie). They could not stand each other at work, but were unknowingly falling in love through the mail as anonymous pen pals.
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