Tagline: Sometimes there’s only one thing left to say.
P.S. I Love You. The title could have been PS I’m a Seriously Creepy Weirdo, and the necrophiliac high concept would work, with just a little tweaking, for a psychological horror film. But this is the movie version of the chick-lit bestseller that turned its 21-year-old author, Cecelia Ahern, daughter of the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, into a publishing sensation.
A twentysomething widow finds that her late husband had secretly written her a series of letters during his illness, and arranged for them to reach her at regular intervals after his death, as if from beyond the grave, telling her how to blossom and love life again after he was gone.
The story is now transferred partly to New York, and stars Hilary Swank as the grieving babe Holly and Gerard Butler as Gerry, the dishy, life-affirming husband from Ireland, who is persistently recalled being absolutely wonderful in flashback. Their relationship is depicted in the opening scene with a toughly realistic row, bordering on a breakup, then a joyful reconciliation.
Then we move smartly to Holly’s picturesque widowhood, the movie having averted its eyes from the actual details of Gerry’s illness and death from a brain tumour. And from there on in, surrounded by feisty friends and family, Holly gets on with the business of opening Gerry’s thoroughly weird letters, which are written on what looks like some kind of modern parchment in disconcertingly bold and clear italic script, produced as if on a word-processor.
The skin-crawling question of who exactly is delivering these letters doesn’t worry anyone much. Will Holly find love again? Will she find it with the smiley Irish hunk (almost a clone of Gerry) who she meets on a visit to the Old Country? Or will it be the strange, shy, vulnerable guy with a kind of autism played by Harry Connick Jr?
Well, there are no prizes for guessing which one gets to be her lover and which her supportive platonic best friend. The movie is notable for having a toe-curling rendition of Fairytale of New York, recited by the smiling, liberal priest at Gerry’s wake. It wasn’t bleeped – though I could have done with one long bleep through this film.
All about P.S. I Love You movie.
>P.S. I Love You (2007)
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, James Marsters, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, Kathy Bates, Nellie McKay, Anne Kent, Sherie Rene Scott, Susan Blackwell
Screenplay by: Richard LaGravenese, Steven Rogers
Production Design by: Shepherd Frankel
Cinematography by: Terry Stacey
Film Editing by: David Moritz
Costume Design by: Cindy Evans
Set Decoration by: Alyssa Winter
Art Direction by: Susie Cullen, Doug Huszti
Music by: John Powell
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual references and brief nudity.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: December 21, 2007
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