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Summary: The best
Review: I think this is an awesome movie especially because i was in it. I was the civil war reenactor that flinched. It is a great movie and i highly recommend it.
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Summary: Wonderful: If you are a sucker for romance
Review: And I am. But the description above explaining the mix of scifi/fantasy with a love story is on the mark, I think it has rarely worked this well. It doesn't hurt that the actors are fabulous!!
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Summary: Romance, Romance, Plus!
Review: This film was featured on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in the spring of 1998, and I have not been able to get it out of my mind since! Imagine mixing TV's "Quantum Leap" sci-fi, time travel with the film "Somewhere in Time", starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. A young author(Campbell Scott) finds a roll-top desk in an antique shop while vacationing with his fiance. Cleaning it up, he discovers a secret hiding place within. It contains a letter from the Civil War era. The love letter, written by a young woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who yearns for someone to love, speaks to him, and he decides to write a reply. That's when the magic begins. Can love transcend time? See "The Love Letter" and find out. This video will be on my "best of" shelf forever.
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Summary: Thoroughly Enchanting.
Review: This wonderful Hallmark Hall of Fame television film was adapted from a short story from the master of time travel novels, Jack Finney ("Time and Again", "Time After Time", "About Time", "From Time to Time", just to name a few). This story by Finney delves once again with time, in that a modern-day young man named Scott (played by Campbell Scott) discovers a letter hidden in a secret compartment of an antique desk that he had just purchased. The letter (as well as the antique desk) belonged to a woman named Elizabeth (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh) who (at the time of her writings) is living during the civil war.Scott becomes so enchanted by the letter that he ends writing to her, and after some obsession, and on a lark, actually decides to mail his response at a post office with historical significance using an authentic-period one-cent stamp. Shortly thereafter, and to his utter astonishment, he discovers a second letter in the hidden compartment. This letter turns out to be her reply to his letter...and thus begins a fascinating relationship of two people falling in love, but separated not by distance, but by 130 some odd years of time. Although this may seem to be a "You've Got Mail" with a time twist, it is really more similar to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and "Somewhere in Time". Believe me, if you liked either one of those films, you'll love "The Love Letter". This fantasy/drama pulls you in and keeps you pleasantly entranced all the way to the end. While this film does suffer a bit from situations handled too simplistically, I'm such a sucker for this type of film that I quickly forgave these missteps. Both Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh were pretty good in this film, but the standout performance (and the one most believable) was Daphne Ashbrook who played Scott's fiancée. While this small film may pale in comparison to the typical big budget Hollywood films, it is, nonetheless, a film I think you will be delighted to have in your collection. My main concern, however, is the quality of the dvd. I've had difficulty with dvd's by Artisan Entertainment before, and so I did with this one (blurry on certain scenes and pretty jumpy). If you've had good luck with them (could be my player), by all means go get it (or maybe it might be wise to get the VHS instead). Between 1 and 10, "The Love Letter" (which feels like a breath of fresh air) deserves a solid 8.
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Summary: Such a wonderful story!
Review: When I first heard about this movie I thought... "ok, this sounds like an after school special for adults." I stand corrected! My dad, of all people, told me how good this movie was and how much I would like it. It's a beautiful movie full of all the sentiment and understanding that really makes a good love story. Don't be fooled by this movie, because it's not just a chick flick!! There's some civil war action to appeal to the guys, and the story overall really makes you believe in the power of love!
Take two people, one in the 1990's and one in the 1860's. They write letters and send them to each other across time. Eventually, they fall in love. But what makes this story so neat is that at the same time, both are already in relationships (sort of). Scotty is engaged to Debra (in the 1990's), and Lizzie has agreed to consider an understanding/engagement with "his Reagle Highness". While Lizzie's father could care less about Lizzie feeling any love for Mr. Reagle, Scotty completely understands her situation and advises her to follow her heart. At the same time, Lizzie presents some trying questions to Scotty, making him question his own relationship with Debra. Continuing on, Lizzie and Scotty both run into obstacles that bring them closer together, even though they are so far apart.
Watch this one with the box of kleenex nearby, and here's a hint... listen carefully to Lizzie's last letter to Scotty. It's so important when you get to the last scene!
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Summary: Sub-par
Review: I normally like romantic movies and this one sounded good, but it was lackluster and unmemorable. I see the similarities to Somewhere in Time, as another reviewer mentioned, but the other movie is FAR superior. Buy Somewhere in Time or something based on a Jane Austen book instead of this if you're looking for a good old-fashioned type romance.
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Summary: The love letter in book form
Review: All though this is a wonderful love story through time, you want more and a few different twist. Jack Finney once again has written a wonderous story on time travel, makes you feel apart of the story. I would love to find the short story on "The Love Letter ", as I love to collect Jack Finney stories
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Summary: A Los Amigos High School student review of The Love Letter
Review: The love letter is an amazingly romantic movie based on the story by Jack Finney. The film takes place in two time periods: contemporary Boston and the Boston of the Civil War era. The film is great to experience for its historically accurate scenes, surprising turns of plot, and the magical excitement of an improbable love across time.
The film partly takes place during the Civil War and depends on everything being correct for that period of time. The film doesn't disappoint: the letters that are written by Elizabeth Witcomb are of an antique and formal style that seems so correct to the period. Her writing is not at all like the common English spoken today. The dresses worn by the women were of the large hoop-style that was so common in that time. On the dirt and cobble roads, horses drew all the carriages. There was not a single car. The careful attention to details helps make the movie more exciting.
It may be difficult to imagine that passionate love can exist across the time span of a hundred years. The Love Letter delights in that problem but answers only with an exquisite revelation of nature of true love. The plot constantly surprises even those who have read original story, but you'll need to see that!
This is the kind of film that can be enjoyed by anybody who has been in love or desires the perfect love. It is appropriate for any age. It is inspired and inspiring. We, the students of room L-22 say: "Don't miss this movie!"
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Summary: A Great Romantic Movie
Review: This is one of the most enchanting films I have ever seen.Just suspend belief that letters can travel in time.The ending dialogue fades with the music in the graveyard but comes back to make sure you know who he has met.
The film is played out to a background of New England autumn.You have to feel sorry for the fiancee as a power is forcing the two main characters together apparently hopelessly.
Now where should I leave my letters.
Thank you America.
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Summary: Pleasantly Surpised
Review: In answer to Lynn Gaige: The Love Letter" (August 1, 1959) by Jack Finney
-Published in The Saturday Evening Post magazine in the January/February 1988 issue
-Collected in I Love Galesburg in the Springtime (1963) by Jack Finney
-Collected in Tales Out of Time (1979) edited by Barbara Ireson
-Collected in Tales in Time (1997) edited by Peter Crowther, ISBN number 1565049896
-Collected in The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories (2000) edited by Dennis Pepper
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