Message in a Bottle (Keepcase)

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Director: Luis Mandoki
Actors: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, John Savage, Illeana Douglas, Robbie Coltrane
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Sales Rank: 3,325

Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Picture Format: Widescreen
Running Time: 131 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: WARD112599D
UPC: 883929090938
EAN: 0883929090938
ASIN: B002NZK5TQ

Release Date: November 3, 2009
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Product Description
Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn. A divorcee takes a vacation and while walking along the beach, she finds a love letter tucked inside a bottle. Touched by the sentiments in the letter, she returns to the newspaper where she works and convinces her boss to do a story about it in hopes of locating the author. 1999/color/132 min/PG-13/widescreen.

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If, as they say, you're in a certain mood, Message in a Bottle can be just the ticket. Based on Nicholas Sparks's bestselling novel, this handsome but overly calculated romance tale stars Robin Wright Penn as Theresa, a Chicago Tribune researcher who finds a note encased in a green bottle that has floated onto a Cape Cod shore. The message within is a heartfelt, yearning declaration of love to a woman named Catherine, but the author is unknown until Theresa (rather improbably) tracks him down in North Carolina. He's Garret Blake (Kevin Costner), a taciturn builder of sailboats and a grieving widower whose late wife, poetically speaking, was the intended recipient of the seafaring note Theresa found. Theresa, a divorcée with a son, decides to meet Garret, only to find him as bottled-up as his message. Nevertheless, a romance blooms on the strength of quality time in a sailboat and lots of cuddling, though the script tosses in bits of conflict to keep their relationship spicy. Directed by Luis Mandoki (When a Man Loves a Woman), this love story is entirely by the numbers, with Costner inhabiting (rather than performing) a stock fantasy of a man perfect in every way save his broken heart. Penn brings more vibrancy to her equally predictable part, but fortunately for all, Paul Newman, John Savage, Robbie Coltrane, and Illeana Douglas are on hand in nicely textured character parts. Sometimes predictability is exactly what one wants when settling in for an evening of home video, and this movie fits the bill nicely. The appealing cinematography is by ace cameraman Caleb Deschanel. --Tom Keogh

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