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The Shop Around the Corner

Movie
1940
1h 39m
NR
English
Comedy, Drama, Romance
User Score: 
8.2
Critic Score: 
98
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Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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The Shop Around the Corner

NR
Movie
1940
1h 39m
English
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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8.2
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CRITIC SCORE
98

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Cast

Full Cast & Crew
James Stewart
Alfred Kralik
Margaret Sullavan
Frank Morgan
Hugo Matuschek
Joseph Schildkraut
Ferencz Vadas
Sara Haden
Felix Bressart
William Tracy
Pepi Katona
Inez Courtney
Sarah Edwards
Woman Customer
Edwin Maxwell
Charles Halton
Charles Smith
Charles Arnt
Policeman (uncredited)
Joan Blair
Customer (uncredited)
Mary Carr
Grandmother (uncredited)
Mabel Colcord
Aunt Anna (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Customer (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Waiter (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
Plump Woman (uncredited)
Mira McKinney
Customer (uncredited)
Sol Murgi
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Renie Riano
Customer (uncredited)
Gertrude Simpson
Customer (uncredited)
Ruth Warren
Customer (uncredited)
Directed By: Ernst Lubitsch
Written By: Samson Raphaelson (Screenplay)

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Nancy L Draper says...
6 years ago
Honestly, is anyone more charming than Jimmy Stewart? I hadn't seen this movie before but was intrigued when I saw it on a Favourite Christmas Movie list. Fortunately, it was playing on Turner Classic Movie channel, so I settled down after my family's Christmas celebration and just enjoyed! Movies from this era of film are more akin to stage plays than the movies now and I so enjoy the craft of well spoken dialogue. The plot is simple and transparent (it's premise was the inspiration for YOU'VE GOT MAIL). The supporting cast is eclectic and entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I give this film a 7.9 (enjoyable) out of 10. [Christmas Romantic Drama/Comedy]
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juliosoft says...
5 years ago
the movie on which it is based: You have an e-mail. Ernst Lubitsch + good script + good cast = great movie
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mbody says...
8 years ago
This is one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart movies. This was also the movie that inspired the modern movie "you've got mail" starring Tom Hanks. The back and forth between the two main characters is hilarious and the whole movie is just so much fun!
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D081392 says...
3 months ago
This was a lovely movie. The writing is funny and engaging. The characters are complex and develop over the movie. Jimmy Stewart is excellent, but it's really all the very funny supporting cast that makes this movie work. It makes you both laugh and cry. The drama is small scale, with basically the entire movie taking place inside the store and on the sidewalk, but it feels realistic and charming because of that. It definitely holds up, even 84 years after it was made.
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Frank Morgan is super in this delightful comedy drama. His general goods store finds itself with a new employee in "Klara" (Margaret Sullavan) who has loads of new techniques and a style that manages to irk long time supervisor "Kralik" (James Stewart). What we know from early on is that both are en More
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John Chard
5 years ago
Ah, epistolary love, delightful.

This is the story of Matuschek and Company - - of Mr. Matuschek and the people who work for him. It is just around the corner from Andrassy Street - - on Balta Street, in Budapest, Hungary.

Klara Novak seeks work at Hugo Matuschek's Budapest store, after initi More
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