A bitterly hysterical and nearly flawless film with two lead performances that aren't likely to be topped.
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.
Kidd excels at Nabokovian heart-to-hearts between a master and pupil of the same emotional age
The performances of Linney and co-star Topher Grace and the offbeat sensibility of co-writer and director Dylan Kidd make for a generally delightful romantic comedy.
Linney plays a woman whose problems in life irritate rather than intrigue you, and the story pivots around an implausible, even surreal coincidence that undoubtedly worked better in the source material, Helen Schulman's novel, than in the film.
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