Tom Hanks .... Joe Fox
Meg Ryan .... Kathleen Kelly
Greg Kinnear .... Frank Navasky
Parker Posey .... Patricia Eden
Jean Stapleton .... Birdie Conrad
Steve Zahn .... George Pappas
Heather Burns .... Christina Plutzker
Dave Chappelle .... Kevin Jackson
Dabney Coleman .... Nelson Fox
John Randolph .... Schuyler Fox
Deborah Rush .... Veronica Grant
Hallee Hirsh .... Annabelle Fox
Jeffrey Scaperrotta .... Matthew 'Matt' Fox
Cara Seymour .... Gillian Quinn
Katie Finneran .... Maureen, the Nanny

A modern day remake of "Shop Around The Corner" with Ryan and Hanks playing people who work in rival stores, hate each other by day, but discover each other over the internet, unknowingly.

Kathleen Kelly, owner of a little and famous bookstore for children's books, has an affair. Being together with Frank Navasky, a well-known journalist, she betrays him by e-mailing secretly and anonymously with a (also betraying) man whom she met in a chat room. Suddenly, her business gets endangered by the opening of Fox Books discount store just "around the corner". She meets Joe Fox, son of the owner, and soon gets annoyed by his arrogant way of managing business matters. Although getting advice by her anonymous mail-pal, she has to close down her store. But Joe Fox's life suddenly gets out of control when he learns that his anonymous mail-pal is nobody other than Kathleen Kelly.