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i must have seen a different film!!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Lubtisch beautifully tells his stories. This simple movie transcends genre or style and is instead a morality tale. Only the great masters can achieve this level of simplicity and legacy.

You honestly would fall in love with it. Both James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan were just brilliant actors and the love they had for each on the film, was just so genuine and wonderful that you wish you had a boyfriend like James Stewart haha! I just love how he looked at her when her character was not knowing where the love letters came from, it reminded me of the film "You've got mail!" but this one was in classic version!I even didn't know that the man who played the shop owner played the Wizard on the movie "Wizard of Oz", he's a brilliant actor anyway regardless if he came from the movie or not! Its just so good, I feel like this movie made me fall in love with it even more. I give this a 10/10, it is just one of the bests that James Stewart has been involved in!

early Stewart film has him somewhat in support of Sullivan...he does well but appears to be a tad too young for the role, as fledgling Salesman in a small but successful shop in Budapest, who learns that an adversarial co-worker is actually the girl he has been writing to! the shop and environment ring of small town America...I did miss some of the early scenes...so I spent a lot of viewing time thinking I was watching a Frank Capra film! it's said that the '90s YOU'VE GOT (E-)MAIL is the "remake" of this 1940 film and strangely, Tom Hanks is every bit as dull as Jimmy Stewart is here.just like so many of today's films, this entry runs on too long and blows past many opportunities to inject some liveliness, some zaniness into the stilted proceedings.I walked away from the TV for about two minutes thinking the film was quickly winding down after the scene when the Shop's aging owner, visiting at Christmas eve, in his recuperation from a severe breakdown after learning his wife was messing around in the stockroom, takes the opportunity to invite the newest hiree, a 17 year old delivery boy, to a Christmas dinner.Thought the movie should end there, as the two walk up the snowy street, and see Jimmy and Margaret in an embrace, under a street light. But....no. More tentative romance with the two former pen pals.

I can't do better with this review than others have done, and I wholeheartedly agree with everything they have said. This is a perfect movie, truly--the directing, acting, editing, writing are all flawless. For an unexplained reason, I have just finished watching the movie five nights in a row and I have enjoyed it every time. The scenes between Margaret Sullivan and Jimmy Stewart are so delightful that I hold my breath to watch them. Especially Margaret Sullivan is so much fun to watch as she puts Jimmy Stewart down and is so charming in doing so that you can't help but love her. The whole cast is outstanding. The young man who plays Pepi almost steals the movie. What he does with the role is so rich and full and multi-layered and unique in its portrayal and interpretation. But they are all perfectly cast and work together so well. I don't understand why this movie didn't get multiple Oscar nominations in 1940, including Best Picture.