Film: "Message in a bottle" (126 mins).
Winsome single mum Robin Wright Penn plucks a bottle from the briny, feels
heart-strings tugged by the sad, passionate letter it contains, and (with
remarkable speed) tracks down its author: widower Kevin Costner, who's mooning
about a picturesque coastal town building boats, if he can be bothered.
This fairly straightforward romantic drama is overpoweringly sentimental in
places, but beautiful to look at (for many reasons) and mostly well-played,
with Paul Newman very nearly stealing the show as Costner's grumpily
mischievous old dad.
There's the odd, welcome chuckle courtesy of Robbie Coltrane (as Wright Penn's
editor), but this is the date movie at its unadulterated, wistful-look
saturated extreme.
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