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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

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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
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P.S.: Laura Linney belongs on everyone's A-list.

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10/15/04
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09/02/05
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What a string of contrived coincidences.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
10/21/04
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer

When the film dispenses with its Harlequinish plot foolishness and flies on the director's considerable instinct, it's a gas.

Full Review Source: The Stranger (Seattle, WA) | comment Comment
12/04/04
Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Dylan Kidd is back with an intimate and endearing love story featuring some exceptional performances and solid writing.**

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
11/11/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

The result is a portrait of love that acknowledges its complexity.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
10/15/04
Annlee Ellingson
Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine

Kidd nudges his fragile story along at a beguiling pace.

Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment Comment
10/19/04
Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane
New Yorker
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08/16/07
Ben Walters
Ben Walters
Time Out New York

Kidd excels at Nabokovian heart-to-hearts between a master and pupil of the same emotional age

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09/13/04
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

Lots of aberrant, imaginative behavior, as only an actress with Linney's virtuosity can present it.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
10/22/04
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Deliciously perverse and nutty throughout.

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10/22/04
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Goes disappointingly soft despite two dynamite lead performances.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
10/21/04
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle

No matter how good Laura Linney is, she can't overcome this movie that goes nowhere and has nothing really interesting to say.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
11/24/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

P.S. offers two plum roles for stars Laura Linney and Topher Grace and at least three plots for them to unravel

Full Review Source: Washington Times | comment Comment
11/08/04
Christian Toto
Christian Toto
Washington Times

Such moments, as movie-engineered as they seem, are enhanced considerably by Linney and Grace's completely lived-in performances.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
11/05/04
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

[Topher Grace] proves that he's got what it takes to become a bona fide movie star.

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10/02/04
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

The offbeat screenplay turns even the corny bits in unpredictable directions, and it's rare indeed to see such consistently superb ensemble acting.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
10/14/04
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
 
 
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