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P.S. (2004)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:43
Rotten:34
Average Rating:5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Confirming the extraordinary promise of his debut, Dylan Kidd’s P.S. is a film as disarmingly lovely and romantic as Roger Dodger was acerbic and cutting. Louise Harrington (Laura Linney), a... Confirming the extraordinary promise of his debut, Dylan Kidd’s P.S. is a film as disarmingly lovely and romantic as Roger Dodger was acerbic and cutting. Louise Harrington (Laura Linney), a divorced, thirty-something admission’s office at Columbia University’s School of Fine Arts is intelligent, pretty, successful, and. . . unfulfilled. That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk and she arranges to interview the young painter. When Scott Feinstadt (Topher Grace) appears, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Louise’s high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the interview, Louise and Scott have embarked on a passionately uninhibited older woman/younger man affair. But is Scott just a reminder of Louise’s lost love? And is Scott just trying to wheedle his way into the Ivy League? Adding to the romantic complications is competition from Louise’s best friend from high school, Missy (Marcia Gay Harden), who shows up to claim the affections of the boy; Louise's co-dependent ex-husband Peter (Gabriel Byrne); her cynical mother (Lois Smith) and fresh-out-of-rehab brother (Paul Rudd). Torrid and tender, serious and sexy, P.S. features a career performance from Laura Linney (Mystic River, You Can Count On Me) and a breakthrough leading man turn for Topher Grace (Traffic, That 70’s Show). P.S., based on Helen Schulman's novel of the same name, shot entirely in New York City, is a romantic fable about getting a second chance at first love. -- © Newmarket Films [More]
Starring: Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden
Starring: Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Rudd
Director: Dylan Kidd
Director: Dylan Kidd
Screenwriter: Dylan Kidd
Producer: John N. Hart, Jeff Sharp, Robert Kessel, Anne Chaisson
Screenwriter: Helen Schulman
Composer: Craig Wedren
Studio: Newmarket Films
Reviews for P.S.
When the film dispenses with its Harlequinish plot foolishness and flies on the director's considerable instinct, it's a gas.
Dylan Kidd is back with an intimate and endearing love story featuring some exceptional performances and solid writing.**
Kidd excels at Nabokovian heart-to-hearts between a master and pupil of the same emotional age
Lots of aberrant, imaginative behavior, as only an actress with Linney's virtuosity can present it.
No matter how good Laura Linney is, she can't overcome this movie that goes nowhere and has nothing really interesting to say.
P.S. offers two plum roles for stars Laura Linney and Topher Grace and at least three plots for them to unravel
Such moments, as movie-engineered as they seem, are enhanced considerably by Linney and Grace's completely lived-in performances.
[Topher Grace] proves that he's got what it takes to become a bona fide movie star.
The offbeat screenplay turns even the corny bits in unpredictable directions, and it's rare indeed to see such consistently superb ensemble acting.
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