Better than the best kiss you’ve ever had.
P.S. I Love You (2007)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:21
Rotten:74
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Hilary Swank is miscast as the romantic lead in this clichéd film about loss and love.
Rated: 12A [See Full Rating] for sexual references and brief nudity.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Irish, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Based On A Novel, Theatrical Release
Theatrical Release:21-12-2007
Synopsis: Two-time Oscar winner Hillary Swank tries her hand at romantic comedy in this touching film based on the bestselling Irish novel. Holly Kennedy (Swank) and her charming Irish husband Gerry (Gerard... Two-time Oscar winner Hillary Swank tries her hand at romantic comedy in this touching film based on the bestselling Irish novel. Holly Kennedy (Swank) and her charming Irish husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) are a young couple struggling to get by in New York City. Their marriage is 10 years strong, and they are madly in love, but the fates soon step in, when Gerry develops cancer and dies. Holly is completely devastated, and her friends Denise (Lisa Kudrow) and Sharon (Gina Gershon) do their best to console her. Her mother (Kathy Bates) and sister, Rose (Nellie Mckay), also offer their support, but it seems nothing can pull Holly out of her grief. Then one day, she begins to receive love letters Gerry penned before his death. The letters are filled with various stories and instructions, and one of them even contains a plan that sends her and her friends on a trip to Ireland. As Gerry's posthumous letters buoy her up, Holly slowly begins to piece her life back together. His letters help her to celebrate their special love story, and remind her that she must continue to live her life, and seek out happiness. The film's stellar cast delivers many tearjerker moments, and P.S. I LOVE YOU does a fine job of yanking on the heartstrings. However, the tone often shifts so abruptly, it at times feels as though they couldn't quite decide if Holly was a steel magnolia, a Bridget with a diary, or a devil in search of some Prada. But the strong performances manage to hold the tale together, and the story is ultimately moving, and yes, romantic. [More]
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Gina Gershon, Lisa Kudrow
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Gina Gershon, Lisa Kudrow, Harry Connick, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kathy Bates, James Marsters
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Screenwriter: Richard LaGravenese, Steven Rogers
Producer: Wendy Finerman, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Molly Smith
Composer: John Powell
Studio: Warner Bros.
Reviews for P.S. I Love You
Little more than a cryfest for those looking to release their own emotions, rather than experience anything new.
The emotional tug is lost in uninspired dialogue, trite situations, and some plot twists that defy credulity while exploring the limits of tedious convention
What do you get when you stick a talented, interesting cast in an uninspiring chick flick? Short answer: P.S. I Love You.
What's on your holiday wishlist? Is there room for a maudlin romantic comedy that brandishes its earnestness like tacky light displays synchronized to Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
Swank does her best, but she seems lost in the movie's identity crisis, taking the project seriously one moment and doing a pratfall off a karaoke stage the next.
You could go see P.S. I Love You, or you could hit yourself on the head with a meat mallet.
Hilary Swank may have two Oscars, but P.S. I Love You proves she has plenty to learn about romantic comedies.
Some actors are better suited to straight-ahead dramas. Swank appears to be one of them.
Who should be more insulted by P.S. I Love You: Women, who are portrayed as shrill, materialistic harpies who fall down regularly? Or men, who are shown to be at their most romantically attractive when they're dead?
For all his plain-speaking, down-homey affect, Harry Connick, Jr. remains something of a mystery.
Things soon degenerate into forced whimsy and uninspired romantic formula.
This is a movie that will leave you stunned and stupefied from beginning to end, if you don't head for the exits first.
If P.S. I Love You proves anything, it's that Hilary Swank may be a great actress, but she can't do cute.
Shifts between earnest melodrama and zany comedy without making much of an imprint as either...In all of her frequently breathtaking talent and depth, Hilary Swank deserves better than what P.S. I Love You has to offer.
Even fans of the romantic comedy genre might have trouble suspending disbelief for this ridiculous bit of fluff that rarely knows whether it wants to be a serious drama about grieving or a light comedy about finding love.
LaGravenese has sliced away the worst of Ahern’s excruciating prose, but that proves a negative virtue.
Presumably made for mature viewers, this fraudulent high-concept chick flick about loss and love is a stepdown for LaGravanese, driven by commercial considerations (which is fine), except that the film's major asset, Gerard Butler, plays a tiny part.
Hilary Swank doesn't usually play girlie roles, and this unabashed chick flick demonstrates why: She's not very girlie.
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