The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 99 min · Comedy, Drama, Romance
71.7 TOPICAL score · #685 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, directed by Ernst Lubitsch) has a TOPICAL score of 71.7 - ranked 685 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and audience, and lowest on awards. Critics: 99% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.6/10 critics' average · Metacritic 96. Audiences: TMDB 8.1/10 (874 ratings) · IMDb 8/10. Wikipedia covers it in 34 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 6,776 films we score. How the score works.
- Critics99% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.6/10 critics' average · Metacritic 96
- AudienceTMDB 8.1/10 (874 ratings) · IMDb 8/10
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 34 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read19,972 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Margaret Sullavan (actor #1,532), James Stewart (actor #2), Frank Morgan (actor #760), Joseph Schildkraut (actor #781)
“In 1999, The Shop Around the Corner was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, deemed as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and is also included in the all-time top 100 movies selected by Time magazine.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 8/10