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Summary: Another 5-star offering from Hallmark!
Review: In "The Love Letter" a young man buys an antique desk, and in a hidden compartment he finds a woman's Civil War vintage love letters. He's intrigued by them, begins to ponder them, even obsess about them, and he eventually decides to respond to them...buy posting his letters in the oldest post office in Boston (where the story takes place). Miraculously, responses from the woman to his letters appear in the hidden compartment.A rich relationship develops through time via the desk. You'll have to watch the movie to see what happens. But I'll say this...I happened upon this movie accidentally one night, and was captivated by it. The premis is interesting, the acting is good (as is the acting in virtually all Hallmark offerings), and the messages are strong. Those things make this movie, for me, a 5-star offering. Give this movie a look...you'll be happy you did! Alan Holyoak
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Summary: An Excellent Movie
Review: This is a great romantic story, thoroughly enjoyable, and is told without swearing or vulgarity. It is truly a family movie and you don't have to worry that it will be offensive to anyone. Although the story line is a bit far out, with a supernatural quality, it is presented so naturally that you actually find yourself believing that it really happened. Some may be uncomfortable with the fact that the story is similar to re-incarnation, but personally I tried not to take that part of it too seriously. This movie is an improvement from the movie "Somewhere in Time" in which the character goes into the past in his mind through hypnosis. There is a "realness" about the way this movie is presented, and I also like that the characters ultimately get together. A great bit of acting on the part of Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh to pull this one off! It has a good message about waiting for someone that makes you "light up like a Christmas tree", someone you can love completely, not just settling for the first person who comes along. I got this movie a few weeks ago and have already watched it 4 times. I certainly would strongly recommend it!!
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Summary: You can easily do worse than this film
Review: While I don't get into romantic movies and often scoff at pretended emotions, 'The Love Letter' is an example of a film not too sugary in its portrayal of undying love. Having seen this film some years ago and only now acquired it to my collection, Scott and Leigh still carry off themselves as credible figures. It is not hard to imagine Leigh's character's chagrin at being consigned to an arranged marriage until she meets up with the letters that infest her desk's secret compartment. That this happens to coincide with the Civil War is not too far-fetched.
It is also not hard to imagine Scott feeling trapped by an impending marriage to a woman he really never knew in the first place. He becomes more 'attached' to the gentleness and refinement of his new-found 'pen pal'. I'd imagine he felt a bit let-down when he learns of the dashing officer his 'love' has been entranced by. Your left thinking 'If they only knew!' more than once. The Love Letter is a nice example of waiting for chances but not giving up on living in the meantime. You can most certainly do worse than this well-crafted film. It might not suit everyone's taste but it suits this Civil War reenactor just fine.
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Summary: 10 star movie!
Review: What a great, great movie! It aired on Hallmark Hall of Fame's Sunday Night at the Movies back in 1998 or 1999, and I loved it! It is the story of a man in present-day Boston who buys an antique desk. When he searches through this desk, he finds a secret compartment with love letters written by a woman named Elizabeth, who lived in the 1860s Civil War era. He would answer these letters and mail them at Boston's oldest post office, which just happened to be the only one open during the Civil War. The girl in the past would keep these letters and write responses to them, then put them in her writing desk, in that secret compartment. It was just the most romantic story I've ever seen, and I've just added it to my wish list with Amazon. If you want to see a really great movie, buy this one. Make sure you have a couple of BIG boxes of Puffs Tissues beside you while you watch.
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Summary: A love story that knows no time
Review: I watched The Love Letter for the third time last night. It is one of the best movies, I just love it!! It is about Scott a man from the present time who buys a desk that use to belong to Elizabeth, a young woman from the 1800's. While exploring the beautiful deck he finds a secret compartment with a letter that she wrote to an imaginary Love of hers. With help from his loving mother He decides to answer the letter, which inturns becomes a loveing corespondent between a young man & a woman who has been dead for 100 years. This is a great movie, I recomend this movie to everyone who loves Love stories, sience fiction, & the civil war times. May we all find the love & happiness that the two charactors in this lovely movie have found in each other!!
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Summary: Pleasantly Surpised
Review: This movie was sad and happy. It keeps you watching to see what will happen. Very nicely done. To me it is a keeper, and I rented it first and will buy it. All the characters were interesting. Lizzie esp had guts and curiousity. Scott tried to help her even though it would not have helped him...guess that is true love. Scott's girlfriend was likeable too.
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Summary: An Unexpected Suprise-Execellent Movie
Review: I first watched this movie by accident last year on the Hallmark channel. It is an excellent movie, especially if you like a nice new twist on the usual love story. Campbell Scott and Jennifier Jason Leigh are great in this. They connect through the past and the present, and you really can not figure out how the movie will end. The movie made me feel good, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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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: Where to find The Love Letter
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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Summary: My all-time 'love's-always-a-beautiful-blended-mystery' ....
Review: Love LOVE LETTERS!!!!
Over and again!
BUT, I have been trying desperately to find the 'short story by Jack Finney' the credits say the movie was based on....HELP, PLEASE!
Thanks, Lynn Gaige
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