Advantages: Good idea Disadvantages: Schmultzy Mills &Boon hell!
...prefer ‘Sting’ slipping her a message with a tantric bottle over the poop deck!.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Plot ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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 ... ...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 ...
talktothehand 26.03.2004
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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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Advantages: Well acted, well written, excellent story and scenenry Disadvantages: May appeal more to women than men
The guys will probably say this is a girlie movie, but it is so much more than that. It is a collision of two love stories, one from the past and the other, unfolding as we watch. It is poignant, and incredibly well acted. Kevin Costner stars as a widowed boatwright, while Robin Wright Penn is a divorcée with a young son, who works for a big city newspaper. Throw in Robbie Coltrane as her boss, and Paul Newman as the boat-builder's father, and you ... ...There are some wonderful scenes in this, views of an oceanside community and all the vistas that can evoke, plus a big city train ride which was an experience for Costner's character.
This movie was made in 1999, I have no idea how I missed it. It is incredible. I would recommend it to anyone to see - but I do think that we females will get more out of it than the guys do. Even if part of that is ogling at the ever-gorgeous Kevin Costner! ...
poet831 05.01.2001
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Advantages: Easy viewing Disadvantages: One for the girls
...American female journalist finds a message in a bottle washed up on a beach, upon reading it the journalist in her can't help but want to uncover the story behind it, the woman in her can't her but be drawn by the words - Kevin Costner had written the letter to his dead wife who he obviously still loves very much.
The journo sets off to find the author of the letter and arrives in the small fishing town where Costner lives..............and the rest ...
Keltic1 17.02.2004
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Advantages: romantic film Disadvantages: ending with sadness
...with a very sad. The message of love in Message in a Bottle is courage. To go on, in spite of, despite of. In spite of the hurt in the past, in spite of the uncertainty of the future. There will be others who have been broken too and their courage will inspire and sustain you ...
freeajim 11.03.2009
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Advantages: you get a box that you could use as a table mat Disadvantages: terrible film
...Tribune researcher who finds the message ina bottle on a beach. After her boss publishes the contents, other messages appear (as they would). Penn tracks down the author, and she travels to see him (Costner). Of course, she does not reveal the reason for her visit (that would be to easy), and guess what? She falls in love with him. This film is predictable but yet unbelivable
Could Costner really be obsessed with his dead wife and still love Penn- ... ...but there is no effort to show what draws these two very opposite people together. Their attraction is assumed. This makes for a very dull film. If you do insist on watching it, drink lots of coffee first, you'll need it.
I would rather watch the Postman ...
chrisfisher01 11.01.2004
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I thought this was a sweet and sad film. I was nearly crying but the story was good. Whta it's about is taht a woman is at the beach one day and finds a mesage in a bottle so she reads and tracks down who wrote it. She goes to where he stays and finds him, I find it unlikely. Anyway she then falls madly in love with him but the ending is sad. It's a story for girls that are soppy and like a cute and upsetting love story. ...
angel1987 28.02.2001
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This might possibly be more pointless and more boring thanthat waste of space excuse for a film dead poets society. This is another depressingly pointless film that just carry'son and on with no real meaning. This film will just depress you to your wits end and you'll walk out wondering why you just wasted two hours of your life. Such films depress you for no point. They think that they are making a worthwhile psychological film. well it isn't. DON'T ...
Phattyd 17.08.2000
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Advantages: It doesn't get boring no matter how many times you watch it Disadvantages: It is so sad your mascara runs down you face without fail/
Message in a bottle is one of the most saddest films ive ever seen. it is so well written and acted that even when you know whats going to happen or think you know whats going to happen somethng else happens. It is a very romantic film its quite unbelievable but good actually happen. The vharacters have such great personalities that seperate them from eachother but the do change with the help of oneanother. No matter how many times you watch it it ... ...and still watch it now after about ten times and i just cry and cry. If you have problems of your own then this film will help you forget them for the duration of it because you just get so involved in whats happening that you dont get chance to think about anything else. ...
EmmaRyder 13.07.2000
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Advantages: Interesting at the start Disadvantages: Very slow, unoriginal and boring
...and reads the very personal message to the ghost. The emotional aspects of the story are then completely ruined by fake soppiness and weak acting by the lead actress. She traces the man down and for falls in love with him for no particular reason at all except that he wrote his feelings down and put them into a bottle. This film is definately not one for the lads and I wouldn't recommend it to the ladies either. It can cause mental anguish and there ...
prince_naz 01.06.2005
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