Or as a subtle commentary on the all-consuming power of capitalism. In late 2018, with the benefit of 20 years’ worth of retrospect, you could read You’ve Got Mail as a hopeful treatise on the human-communing powers of the internet. “In life, they’re at odds,” the film’s trailer intones. It was a film that could only have emerged from its particular historical moment: a rom-com about two people, Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), enemies in life, who find soulmate-level connection via the magic of the dial-up modem. You’ve Got Mail premiered, as a not-very-holiday-focused holiday movie, in late December 1998.
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