A sort of remake of the 1940 James Stewart film The Shop Around the Corner. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are reunited from Sleepless in Seattle as different characters in another romantic comedy. It’s flabbier than that earlier film and less sweet as a result. For example, the father and grandfather characters didn’t work at all and the convoluted scene with the children was just bolted on so that you could see Tom Hanks being a nice guy. That said, Meg and Tom work well together and it was nice that they had more on-screen time as a pair. In SiS, the film had ended at the moment they got together. It’s interestingly of its time in the way that e-mail and coffee shops are both new enough to be presented as novelties.
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