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You’ve Got Mail (w/ Robin Johnson)

Movies vs. Capitalism

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Tom Hanks' Man of My Dreams

This movie is really banking on Tom Hanks in 1998 in order to make this at all work. Anyone else playing this role, I do not think that the romcom would have succeeded at all. And aside from the little thing of closing down her business, which he says at the end, by the way, that is a line. There is no line that this man will not cross. He's just, he's an evil villain. In the horror movie version, he is grotesque, and some sort of demonic creature. It's such disgusting behavior. But then she's like charmed by him at the end - which is like right, psychotic. So perhaps our leading man is perhaps

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