Love finds when you least expect it.
When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.
The film is based on the compilation of missives that lovelorn people all over the world have written to storied star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet. The letters find their way to Verona, Italy. Book explains who are the volunteers who’ve been answering the missives for 70 years.
A tale of encountering new sparks and rekindling old flames. When Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a young American, travels to Verona, Italy — the romantic city where Romeo first met Juliet — she meets a group of volunteers who respond to letters written to Juliet seeking romantic advice. Sophie finds and answers a letter that has been lost for 50 years, and is stunned when its author Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) arrives in Italy with her handsome but overprotective grandson (Christopher Egan) to find the fiance she left decades before. Fascinated by Claire’s quest, Sophie joins them on an adventure through the beautiful hills of Tuscany searching for Claire’s long lost Lorenzo. The journey will change their lives forever, as they discover it’s never too late to find true love.
Letters to Juliet
Directed by: Gary Winick
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Marcia DeBonis, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal, Franco Nero, Luisa Ranieri, Marina Massironi
Screenplay by: Jose Rivera, Tim Sullivan
Production Design by: Stuart Wurtzel
Cinematography by: Marco Pontecorvo
Film Editing by: Bill Pankow
Costume Design by: Nicoletta Ercole
Set Decoration by: Alessandra Querzola
Music by: Andrea Guerra
MPAA Rating: PG for brief rude behavior, some language and incidental smoking.
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Related Link: Read the Full Production Notes for Letters to Juliet
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