Ranking The 25 Best Rom-Coms of All-Time

23. You’ve Got Mail (1998)

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You’ve Got Mail is the last of Nora Ephron’s genre-defining romantic comedies. Its the second film made with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, who circle each other as sparring partners Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox. Kathleen is the owner of a small children’s bookstore (which he inherited from her deceased mother). It becomes at risk of closure thanks to the opening of Joe’s megastore. They meet in a chat room, and subsequently fall in love not knowing who the person on the other side of the screen truly is. Despite its outdated tech talk, it’s a beautiful movie — and thus a real classic rom-com.