When Does the Film "You've Got Mail" (1998) Take Place?
"You've Got Mail" is a romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron with Delia Ephron [adapting "Illatszertár" by Miklós László] that released December 18th, 1998. So when is "You've Got Mail" set?
It takes place in the years:
We know this because about two-thirds through the movie George shows Kathleen "Shopgirl" Kelly a "NEW YORK POST" newspaper front-page dated for "THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1998" while discussing its headline announcing something that happened the night before. So it is February of 1998 AD.
1997 AD - 1998 AD
We know this because about two-thirds through the movie George shows Kathleen "Shopgirl" Kelly a "NEW YORK POST" newspaper front-page dated for "THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1998" while discussing its headline announcing something that happened the night before. So it is February of 1998 AD.
More specifically, very early in the story Kathleen says to Christina, "Don't you just love New York in the fall?" so it must be autumn of 1997 AD at the beginning. Later, Kathleen decorates her shop "The Shop Around the Corner" as we hear her narrate her latest e-mail to Joe "NY152" Fox ..."as I was decorating my Christmas tree, unwrapping funky ornaments made of popsicle sticks and missing my mother so much I almost couldn't breathe." So it is December of 1997 AD at this point.
