P.S. I Love You

P.S. I Love You

Description

Buy a new outfit. Be a disco diva. Learn to fish. Take a chance. Travel. Laugh. Love. Sometimes all you need to start really living is a little shove in the right direction and thats just what Holly Kennedy gets. From the handsome, big-hearted love of her life. From a series of mysterious letters. And from gal pals who know that a friend in need is a friend in need of some laughs! Based on Cecelia Aherns joyful bestseller and boasting a top cast led by two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler (300), P.S. I Love You is your very own message full of fun, love, triumph and romance. Open it now. (P.S. Youll love it!)

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For those who believe true love lasts beyond this physical plane, P.S. I Love You is a jewel in the romantic-movie crown. With elements of Ghost, Heaven Can Wait, and My Life, the film is an unabashed valentine to the notion of lasting (everlasting?) love. Hilary Swank is Holly, a deeply happy lass married to the most impossibly adorable Irishman on the planet, Gerry (Gerard Butler). When an illness takes him from her, Holly spirals into depression. Then, as if from beyond the grave, communications, gifts, and remembrances from Gerry begin to appear--gestures hed planned knowing his death was coming. The "communications" with her dead husband could threatened to keep Holly in past, yet they begin to pave a path into her future.

Swank, not a traditional romantic actress, is quite moving as Holly, whose grief and confusion is palpable. Butler will win new continents of fans, largely female, as the yummiest honey one could wish for. Special kudos to the supporting cast, including Lisa Kudrow as a Holly pal, and James Marsters and Kathy Bates, always breaths of fresh air onscreen. Under the sure hand of director-writer Richard LaGravenese, P.S. I Love You is touching, sad (have tissues on hand), and heartbreakingly lovely. --A.T. Hurley
Rate Points :4.0
Binding :DVD
Brand :Warner Brothers
Label :Warner Home Video
Manufacturer :Warner Home Video
MPN :WARD023864D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Warner Home Video
Publisher :Warner Home Video
UPC :085391138624
EAN :0085391138624
Price :$19.98USD
Lowest Price :$10.12USD
Customer ReviewsWell-done, weepy chick flick
Rating Point :3 Helpful Point :0
P.S. I Love You is a sweet, teary chick flick that I kinda liked in spite of myself. I read the book that this movie was based on a few years ago, and though the movie differed significantly from the book in some key areas, I found myself enjoying it.

Heres the skinny: Young Holly is married to Gerry, an Irish musician. The two live in a cramped walk-up apartment in New York, and they are trying to save some money and "make a plan" to start their family.

Reality intervenes. Gerry is diagnosed with a brain tumor and passes away. Holly is adrift in grief. Then, on her 30th birthday, a cake and a small tape recorder arrive at her doorstep. Its a message from Gerry. Apparently, Gerry planned these occasional messages to her for the first year after his death.

Each message gives Holly an assignment - buy a bedside lamp, go out with her girlfriends, take a vacation, find a better job. The assignments are Gerrys way of making sure that Hollys life goes on without him. (Sweet, no?)

I thought that Swank did a good job in this film, making a sometimes inscrutable character likable and warm. Butler was wonderful as Gerry, and there was a fabulous (all too brief) performance by Jeffrey Dean Morgan that practically had me weak in the knees. Harry Connick Jr. played Daniel, Hollys long-suffering friend, pretty well, too. (Oh, and Hollys clothes were really fun! Kudos to the costumer on that one.)

To recap - this is not a tour de force. This movie will not change your life or even make you think about it that much. But it will entertain you, and you may have to grab a Kleenex for some of the scenes. Great for a night in with the girls.

Far better than I imagined - and Hilary is radiant!
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
I just watched this "On Demand," and was very pleasantly surprised! Id seen the DVD box in stores for months, and was never moved to rent it little did I know that Id end up thinking it was one of the best romantic movies Id seen in years. Im a guy who doesnt immediately label a good love story a "chick flick" - ANY kind of movie that is driven by character and plot can hold my interest, and the best ones prompt me to write songs. I just finished one, because certain things about "P.S. I Love You" made me think of my own life.

P.S - Ive never seen Hilary Swank look so gorgeous.

Ridiculously predictable, but my macho husband and I enjoyed watching
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
No spoilers here you already have the plot from the spotlight reviews:

If youve seen more than say 10 chick flicks in your life, you will see every plot twist and turn coming from a mile away. In fact, you might want to watch this movie purely to test your plot-guessing ability. And there are some amazing "coincidences" at a frequency that only happens in movies.

None-the-less, I found this movie worth watching for both the humor and the wisdom (dispensed from beyond the grave and by Hollys no-nonsense mom brilliantly played by Kathy Bates.) Its trite to say this by I laughed and cried. I especially found the "dating like a guy" antics of Hollys golddigging friend, Denise (Lisa Kudrow) hysterial. Hollys friend (Harry Connick, Jr.) who has some sort of "tell you exactly what he thinks without social filters" is also quite funny. I think Swank did a mostly great job of playing the grieving Holly, but I agree with a previous reviewer that the flashback where Swank is playing a giddy, naive college student is over-the-top.

In addition, theres beautiful cinematograpy of Ireland (and Irishmen :-). (Although Hollys Irish husband played by Gerald Butler is Scottish and the Irish hunk Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a Seattle native.)

I really didnt think my cynical middle-aged martial arts instructor husband would like this chick flick, but he enjoyed it quite a bit. We both thought the movie was better in the second half, but not bad in the first half either.

Dont love you
Rating Point :2 Helpful Point :0

I really need to stop watching romantic comedies at 3 a.m. My last gander was the 2007 chick flick P.S. I Love You, starring Oscar winner Hillary Swank and 300 hunk Gerard Butler. Why do I bother?

Holly (Swank) and Gerry (Butler) live in a small New York apartment and argue like normal couples, but they truly have a great life and love at heart. When Gerry dies from a brain tumor, Holly struggles with his death despite help from her family and friends. Shortly thereafter, on her 30th birthday, Holly begins to receive predated letters from Gerry. These treasures help her remember the good times, make new experiences, and find herself again.

She has had many an out there role, from The Next Karate Kid to Boys Dont Cry, but I wonder what it was that drew Hillary Swank to this role. Holly is by no means a pretty part. For some reason the character dresses like an idiot, and theres a lot of crying and why questions ala Nancy Kerrigan and the whole knee bashing thing. I can see the emotion in the grief and overcoming the death of a loved one, but for personal reasons alone, not from Swanks trying. I dont know what Id do without my husband. Do I care if Holly gets over Gerry? Not really. Shes given plenty of opportunity to do so, and after chance after chance, not only did I not care, but I wanted to smack Holly to her senses. Why Hillary, why?

P.S. I Love You was hyped largely as the next big thing after Gerard Butlers success in 300. I understand his not wanting to be typecast, and his work prior to 300 was quite diverse, from Dracula 2000 to The Phantom of the Opera. I just find this film of all the choices, to be so...weird. Some girls may be charmed by all the romance and such, yadda yadda, but otherwise, this is a very unflattering role. His singing is wrong here, and there isnt an Irish actor out there to fill our Irish onscreen Gerrys shoes? Not only is the whole dead Gerry and Gerry Butler vibe a little creepy, but he disappears halfway through the film-before the last letter arrives. I dont get it. Butler has one scene before the opening credits, then spends the rest of the film in flashbacks or as figments of Hollys imagination. Its as if the performance technically doesnt exist. Star Trek fans complain if an entire episode is a dream or a big reset button. Its not as if the ghost of Hollys dead husband is really haunting her, that would be worthwhile I think, ala The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It would have to be funny, not serious, Ghost cornered that. I just dont see the appeal of a film that turned out to be a complete misstep for both leads. Why Gerry why?

Not only have the two leads been unfortunately miscast, but the absolutely stunning supporting cast of P.S. I Love You has been completely wasted. Oscar winner Kathy Bates (Misery) receives her token obligatory weepy scenes as Hollys mom Patricia, and Gina Gershon (Bound) and James Marsters (Spike, People! Spike!) disappear from the film with no explanation whatsoever. We get a tacked on reunion with Lisa Kudrow (Friends) and a cop out at Yankee Stadium with Harry Connick, Jr.(Copycat). I found myself more interested in these fine supporting players and their complex relationships, but their trials and troubles are dropped in favor of Hollys obvious and typical story. The eclectic mix has the comedic and dramatic-and heck musical-talent needed, but its never used by writer Steven Rogers (Hope Floats) and director Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, Freedom Writers, and The Bridges of Madison County).

Its not woeful leads and misused support, however, that undoes P.S. I Love You- its the whole dang story from author Cecelia Ahem. Maybe the movie took its liberties from the source novel, but Im certainly not rushing down the street to Borders to get the book, thats for damn sure. The bemoaning of Holly just goes on and on. As I said, grief is something everyone can relate to, but enough with the letters already. They are too obvious and convenient. The first message is on a tape recorder. Why arent all the others? In this day and age, Gerry couldnt videotape himself and email it to Holly everyday? How is she really expected to get over her dead husband if new information and good memories of him are technically coming from him after death?

Gerry and Holly are so poor, but he can plan elaborate bar trips and vacays to Ireland? And all this while dying of a brain tumor over the course of one year? The soul searching of what grief can do to one person is undone by the unrealistic nature of the storys plan. Never mind the horrid soundtrack and all that omigod chick stuff about turning thirty, marriage, divorce, babies, and looks. And after all this, how does Holly get on with her life? By designing shoes! Could you alienate the male audience more? I cant believe guys wrote and directed this.

Fans of the cast will tune in for P.S. I Love You, but I dont think it will be a Gerry dream for the ladies or a tour de force for Swank fans. The DVD supposedly has more scenes and interviews with Ahern-something I would normally find interesting, but I dont think its worth the full price of the disc. Unless you are a big chick flick fan, please avoid. Fans of the individual cast are better off finding clips on youtube.

Have some tissue handy
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
A very sweet and well done romantic comedy :)

You will enjoy this movie with anyone...your boy or girl-friend, Husband or Wife....your teen Children...etc

Its not only a "Chick Flick"...its romantic.."YES" but also is Funny with some drama. Its just simply ENTERTAINING, from start to finish :)

This movie has the night coverd )

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