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Message In A Bottle
1999
The story of a long distance love connection that is made when Penn, a Chicago journalist, discovers a love letter that Costner, a widowed sailboat repairer, let drift into the ocean. She quickly tracks him down and an honest bond forms between the two. When he discovers that she hasn't been entirely honest with him, the .. Read more
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage |
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| Director | Luis Mandoki |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
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Message In A Bottle
The story of a long distance love connection that is made when Penn, a Chicago journalist, discovers a love letter that Costner, a widowed sailboat repairer, let drift into the ocean. She quickly tracks him down and an honest bond forms between the two. When he discovers that she hasn't been entirely honest with him, the betrayal threatens to ruin what has been, so obviously up to this point, a wonderful, romantic thing.
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas, Robbie Coltrane, Viveka Davis, Rosemary Murphy, Raphael Sbarge, Bethel Leslie, Tom Aldredge, Jesse James, Richard Hamilton |
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| Director | Luis Mandoki |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 6 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Romanian |
| Released | DVD: 18 Oct 1999 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this romantic drama, Kevin Costner stars as a strong, silent and sensitive boat builder living in North Carolina, who's tracked down by newspaper researcher Robin Wright Penn after she finds a heart-rending love letter to his late wife in a bottle on the seashore. Her hard-nosed reporter's edge soon softens as she decides to learn more about the man and his solitary life. Although the inevitable happens — with a twist! — the beauty of director Luis Mandoki's intelligent tear-jerker (adapted by Gerald DiPego from Nicholas Sparks's bestseller) is how all the emotions ring true. A richly rewarding tribute to the human spirit, this is irresistibly warm-hearted stuff, with an absolutely brilliant scene-stealing performance from Paul Newman as Costner's grizzled father.
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Lovelorn researcher Theresa (Wright Penn), a columnist's assistant on a Chicago newspaper, thinks she's found the man... read more on Time Out
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18 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Bring me a bucket
Kevin Costner plays a soppy lad who wrote some letters to his late wife and threw them in the ocean. A lonely woman walks by who also happens to be a reporter and picks up the bottle and reads the very personal message to the ghost.
The emotional aspects of the story are then completely ruined by fake soppiness and weak acting by the lead actress. She traces the man down and for falls in love with him for no particular reason at all except that he wrote his feelings down and put them into a bottle.
This film is definitely not one for the lads and I wouldn't recommend it to the ladies either. It can cause mental anguish and there is no humour either. I would recommend this film to anyone who would like to spend the entire day throwing up or feeling really depressed. Not only is the theme depressing but the film is too. -
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Very Good Film
Kostner, Newman and Coltrane.....do I need to write anything else? Superb casting...lovely film.
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