I think its safe to say that as far as love stories go, at 90 minutes this is clearly 83 minutes too long!. Schmaltzy is not the word as ‘Robin (I married Sean) Penn clashes lips with wholesome all American, ‘Kevin Costner’, soon to be back on top and much safer ground with ... Read review
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on Nicholas Sparks' bestselling novel, this handsome but overly calculated romantic tale stars Robin Wright Penn asTheresa, aChicago Tribuneresearcher who finds ...
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Attractive ‘Chicago Tribune’ researcher’ Theresa Green’, (I kid you not!) played by Robin Wright Penn is on holiday when wandering down the Florida beach, discovers a bottle with a message in it (see title!).
Infatuated with the ... ...basic premise of dropping a message into the water for your lover, found by someone who wants to fill those deck shoes, is a pretty romantic idea.
With ‘Love Actually’ doing the rounds and getting English girls in the mood for love in the mating season, there’s only one romantic film I want to recommend to you and its called’ Lovers of the Artic Circle’. Yes it’s got sub titles but if you want to ... more
I think its safe to say that as far as love stories go, at 90 minutes this is clearly 83 minutes too long!. Schmaltzy is not the word as ‘Robin (I married Sean) Penn clashes lips with wholesome all American, ‘Kevin Costner’, soon to be back on top and much safer ground with another sprawling Western in ‘Open Range’. Diabetics! Reach for your insulin as this is a shockingly predictable soppy love story stuff that is so riddled with Hollywood cliché and sickly narration that we will join you in that coma, if just for relief!.
Don’t get me wrong folks; I like Kev and his speech alone in ‘JFK’ was worth an Oscar. And yes he can play romantic leads as he admirably did amongst the baseball trilogy and ‘Tin Cup. But this is in ‘The Bodyguard’ and ‘Sizzle Beach’ territory girls and guys with the Jolly Green Giant sitting their with the extra helping of corn!.
It’s a shame as the romantic premise here is pretty sound and it’s beautifully set on the scenic Eastern Seaboard coast where George (Perfect Storm) Clooney pitched and rolled on those ‘Outer Banks’. Where as the Mexican heroically bought in the catch from those rearing waves in that exciting thriller, Captain’ wimpy’ Costner is as wet as a haddock and only has ‘fromage’ in his trawl. Im sure if ‘Sean Robin Wright’ had her choice of sailors I think she would rather prefer ‘Sting’ slipping her a message with a tantric bottle over the poop deck!.
Attractive ‘Chicago Tribune’ researcher’ Theresa Green’, (I kid you not!) played by Robin Wright Penn is on holiday when wandering down the Florida beach, discovers a bottle with a message in it (see title!). Infatuated with the writing and declaration of undying love” You’re my true North”(Barf), from one mystery lover to another, the divorcee is impelled to read it out to her female work colleagues on return to the office.
They to are immediately drawn to this mysteriously romantic man and his unconditional love, cooing at every stroke of the writers peen like a lovers touch. Boss in big Robbie Coltrane off all people feels this could be a great story and when he runs the transcript in the paper the response is a very large mail bag, and that means a story!. When a letter is sent in on identical paper by a reader who found it in a rest room, Coltrane puts Theresa on the mystery to quite literal follow her heart. She needs some romance in her life to reignite her writing skills and the boss wants to get everyone’s circulation up with a good romantic tale.
Being a researcher she is made for the task and quickly traces the letters age and sender, signed `Garrett’, and has soon tracked him down to small Carolinas costal town ’St Clare’ near the Outer Banks, the tamer southerly edge of fishing grounds, made famous from the excellent movie’ The Perfect Storm’. With no photo of this guy he could be anyone and not the intriguing sensitive fantasy lover she has already painted in her mind. And because this is a Hollywood folk there’s little chance that it’s a balding retard with teeth like a row of bombed houses.
The mystery man in true romantic movie style is none other than world famous international movie star ‘Kevin Costner (Kevin Costner) a.k.a Garret of course!.Oh and his dad is the even more famous blue eyed brooding’ smoothie’, Paul Newman!. What a stroke of luck girl!.
Garret Blake is a local boy who repairs boats and necks beer in the same old café, not the type of guy your city slicker would normally go for. Dad is the rugged old grumpy dad cameo; Paul Newman only seems to play these days, getting between his son and another feuding family of Garrets departed lover,’ Caroline’. I won’t tell you her back story or it will totally ruin a film that’s already been nuked with a barrel of molasses.
Theresa doesn’t reveal her identity and motive to Garret as she files the copy in her head and inevitably falls for the simple small town bumpkin, her true objective all along. But Garrets tale is a tragic one (tissues girls!) and his endless love for Caroline may not let the new woman into his life and the sensitive emotions stirring in those love letters. If she is too win the heart that is clearly broken then he has to let go of the memories and Newman needs to cut back his screen time as he’s clearly the best thing in this…….
The Director…..Pass me my best Purdy twin barrel Jeeves!.
I think its fair to say the ‘Tipex’will have quickly been applied to the KC CV!, to erase any evidence of a very mushy slushy affair of a movie after a particularly low tide on the Carolina coast. At 123 minutes you just wish a mighty freak wave would rear up and wash him away, the moment he sets out to sea. You would think Costner wouldn’t want to go near a boat again after ‘Waterworld’.lol! .
This is the type of schlock romantic ebb and flow that appeals to those menopausal women who take ten Mills &Boon books out on mass from the local library. Its pulp romance at its worse with Costner totally wasted here alongside the far less accomplished but able actress, Mrs Penn. Who says you don’t get the roles when you dump your famous lover!. It’s a shame because the basic premise of dropping a message into the water for your lover, found by someone who wants to fill those deck shoes, is a pretty romantic idea.
With ‘Love Actually’ doing the rounds and getting English girls in the mood for love in the mating season, there’s only one romantic film I want to recommend to you and its called’ Lovers of the Artic Circle’. Yes it’s got sub titles but if you want to get your girlfriends all weepy guys then that’s the one for you. Now im off to trash the ‘Dream of the Blue Turtles’ because this whole saga reminds me of the end of one of the greatest bands ever!. If someone does get that message from Kevs bottle I wonder if its an SOS o escape this movie!. Get me out of hereeeee.
Advantages: Soppy romance Disadvantages: Not the best Kevin Costner has done
...found a bottle with a message in it while walking along the shore - it was from another young boy in France. I thought this would be so cool, so everytime I was at the beach, I always scoured the shore for a bottle - the only thing I ever found was empty coke tins!
Oh well! I digress…
So what’s this movie about?
Theresa (played by Wright Penn) is a journalist who works for a major American Newspaper. She’s constantly on the look out for a new ... ...discovers a bottle with a message in it. A beautiful message, so romantic, so much so that she finds herself falling in love with the author (Kevin Costner *who wouldn’t fall in love with him!*), even though she hasn’t met him. Back at the office, the boss (Robbie Coultrane) gets hold of the message and decides to put it into his column at the paper. The response from the public is overwhelming, and it turns out that others have found similar messages, ...
Belfastgirl 28.05.2001
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Advantages: Romance for sunday afternoon! Disadvantages: Not thrilling by any means!
Message in a Bottle, 1999
History
Based on a novel by Nicolas Sparks who also wrote The Note Book and A Walk to Remember, I have seen The Note Book and loved it, I am yet to see A Walk to Remember but have heard great things about it! Searching for cheap copy on e-bay at the moment. The Story
As the title suggests this film is about a message in a bottle! Divorced mum of one Theresa Green (Robin Wright Penn) comes across the bottle whilst jogging ... ...again. When she finds a message in a bottle she is swept away by the words she reads and goes on a journey to find the author.
Theresa has appeared in many films including 'The Princess Bride' and 'Forrest Gump'. Garrett Blake played by Kevin Costner, Garrett Blake is a widowed husband still trying to come to terms with his wife's death two years on. He lives in a quite fishing town and has an obsession with sailing and boats. When Theresa arrives ...
LIZKEMPO 24.01.2007
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Advantages: A GOOD FILM WITH A GREAT STORYLINE. Disadvantages: TO SLOPPY FOR MEN PERHAPS
...one. Even tempted now to write my message in a bottle, throw it over the cliffs and see where it takes my story !
Look out for it on Amazon for as little as Four Pounds Fifty and certainly buy the book as well.
Happy viewing.
Rachel ...
thingywhatsit 08.01.2006
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Mark: Message in a Bottle stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn, and special guest star Rose McGowan as the P.T. Barnum might-as-well-be-bearded lady. I don't know about you, Jerry, but I'm sending out an S.O.S. to the world!
Jerry: (smiling) Did you say "Massage in a Bottle"? I think that bespeaks a kind of bankrupt morality which is damaging to the spiritual lives of children!
Mark: Jerry, your tie's too tight! Proverbial strong silent type ... ...of depravity.
Mark: Message to all the ships at sea: Not since the heyday of Christopher Cross has Sailing been so dull. Kevin's a boat builder. Did you see the frame he was building, Jerry?
Jerry: (smiling) I certainly did, Mark. It was a triangular frame - lavender if I'm not mistaken. With a rainbow bow and black leather rigging. This is a sailing ship that role-models the homosexual lifestyle! They brazenly acknowledge that this boat will hoist ...
Biggie 27.08.2000
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Advantages: Excellent storyline and good acting Disadvantages: Not the most uplifting film you'll ever see
...and I went to see Message in a Bottle at the cinema. We were not to be disappointed by a truly outstanding film.
Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn and Paul Newman are all fantastic in a film where a widower writes a letter to his wife, wraps it in a bottle and throws it out to see. Wright-Penn picks it up off a beach and begins a search for the author.
To the cynic it is quite predictable what happens, but the twists and turns of love never run ... ...interested. It is a terk-jerker, filled with emotion and often tension amid characters, but I found it a nice change to watch a film which relied on a good plot and solid acting.
As a slight warning I did watch this film after a bad day at work, and it didn’t exactly lift my mood. Also a note for the mothers out there – my Mum watched this film and cried from start to finish. ...
toneboy7 29.08.2000
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The story of one woman's search for the man who placed a passionate love letter in a bottle and sent it out to sea. Finally tracking him down she begins a love affair with him. Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks.
"...[Costner's performance is] mythic but also foxy and life size..." -- Rating: B (Entertainment Weekly, p.44-5, 05/03/1999)
"...[Ms. Penn] remains a pleasure to watch..." (New York Times, p.E26, 12/02/1999)
"...A purely cinematic movie..." (Sight and Sound, p.52-3, 01/05/1999)
DVD Description
The story of a long distance love connection that is made when Penn, a Chicago journalist, discovers a love letter that Costner, a widowed sailboat repairer, let drift into the ocean. She quickly tracks him down and an honest bond forms between the two. When he discovers that she hasn't been entirely honest with him, the betrayal threatens to ruin what has been, so obviously up to this point, a wonderful, romantic thing.
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