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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
Time Out
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Kidd's movie staggers around as if its own story was some bad brown acid it had foolishly ingested.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/12/04
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice

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 an intriguing and satisfying romance that may hold some appeal even for those who normally do not like films about affairs of the heart.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
10/14/04
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

An actress who can emerge from a sex scene with a genuinely flushed bosom and cheeks will produce a performance that goes well beyond words.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
10/15/04
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

I wish I could say I can't wait to see Kidd's next movie, but I can't say that. I can wait. I can wait just fine.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
09/17/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

p.s. is a fresh romantic comedy that shows how we often sabotage ourselves when love arrives effortlessly in our arms and we don't know what to do with this blessing.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
10/14/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Contains more than its share of implausibilities and absurdities -- and let's not even imagine the reception the movie would get if the genders were reversed -- but if it's not Linney's finest role, it contains some of her nerviest work.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
11/07/04
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Lost me about halfway through and never got me back.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
11/19/04
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

The screenplay, adapted by both Kidd and Schulman, apparently leaves out much of the book's biting black humour.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/05/04
Rebecca Caldwell
Rebecca Caldwell
Globe and Mail

[Despite] an identity crisis...a surprisingly subtle and pleasantly off-kilter comedy-drama.

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
10/15/04
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

With Roger Dodger, Kidd knew that his strength was in creating two compelling characters, so he left everyone else in the background. This time he's stretching, and it shows.

Full Review Source: Valley Scene Magazine | comment Comment
11/09/04
Larry Carroll
Larry Carroll
Valley Scene Magazine

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

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
09/13/04
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

Provides a sort of middlebrow mainstream rom-com conventions-satisfied satisfaction.

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11/10/04
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

If Kidd does enjoy presenting character studies as vehicles for lightweight self-improvement messages, at least he uses messages I can agree with.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
10/14/04
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

Dylan Kidd seems to be at the expense of another writer’s published weepie rather than the sharp repartee he brought to Roger Dodger

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
09/28/04
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.com

Deliciously perverse and nutty throughout.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
10/22/04
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Linney remains a full-blooded character so memorable that she's worth watching -- even in a less-than-memorable movie.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
10/21/04
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today

Directed by Dylan Kidd, who showed some filmmaking promise a few years ago with Roger Dodger, P.S. is would-be romance etched in acid and loathing.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
10/14/04
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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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
 
 
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