You’ve Got Mail (1998)

You’ve Got Mail’s anonymous online relationship between two professional rivals served to normalise the internet as a space for forming genuine romantic attachments.

Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) on her laptop in You’ve Got Mail (Warner Bros).

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This post is part of the ‘Rewound’ series of analyses of objects or episodes from cultural and political history.

Spoiler alert: This is an analysis of the film You’ve Got Mail and its themes, rather than a review, and as such reveals plot details for the purpose of enhancing that analysis.