Message in a Bottle (film)

Message in a Bottle - The beginning of a great love, is an American film drama starring Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn from 1999 directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Gerald Di Pego based on the novel far as the sea ( Message in a. Bottle) by Nicholas Sparks.

Action

Theresa Osborne, a person working in Chicago editor and after her separation from her unfaithful husband, the single mother enough from everyday stress and shallow relationships and decides without son Jason a few days to go it alone vacation on Cape Cod and relax. The daily jogging on the beach one day she finds a bottle. The touching love letter not only inspires Theresa, but all the women in her editorial, where she tells them. Your chief editor published without their knowledge an article on the message of love "by G. ".

The echo of it are a flood of letters from readers and notes from readers on two more bottles to arrive as quickly. Curious about the author and still fascinated by his honest love confessions, the editor sets out to seek the unknown. Her research eventually lead to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. There she meets the taciturn boat builder Garret Blake. He has lost only recently his young wife Catherine and still can not get over her death. Garret actually than the bottle turns out to writers.

Carefully, and without telling him about her knowledge of the letters, Theresa approaches the closed man. Both recognize that they have much in common and fall in love. Garret visited Theresa in Chicago, befriends and quickly, even with the son of Jason. During his visit, however, Garret discovers his two letters and newspaper articles. As it turns out, is the third letter is not from him, but his wife, who had thrown them into the sea shortly before her death a message. Garret feels betrayed and Theresa assumed initially to have done anything just for the sake of audience-grabbing story.

Back in the Outer Banks, he can not last after a tongue-lashing his father's Dodge but convince Theresa honest love. He wrote a last letter to his wife and wants this throw with his new sailboat " Catherine" into the sea during a tour. However, he is surprised by a gathering storm. When the rescue of a family in distress drowned Garret after he was able to save two people.

His father Dodge Theresa can track a year later and tells her for the first time by Garret death. He hands her the bottle with his last letter that was found aboard his boat. Theresa reads in it an excuse Garret to Catherine. He had found a new love in Theresa and wanted to fight for this.

Soundtrack

Reviews

The critic consensus for the film was rather negative. Thus, only an average Metacritic score of 39%, based on 23 reviews from.

Partly judgments were, however, in return, very positive. So in addition to the benefits of the main characters were also praised the stringent told plot and the camera work.

The lexicon of international film proclaims: ". Sets staged, played solid melodrama that the attempt of two people to handle the loss of a partner, a spiritually evolving love opposes the touches without false sentimentality "

Also the criticism of the film mirror was positive:

" " Message in a Bottle " is a great film, one that I will be looking sure several times, even in years to come, a film that has impressed me deeply. "

Awards

The film had four nominations for the 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Award. But he did not win any of these awards.

In addition, Kevin Costner was nominated for the Golden Raspberry.

DVD Release

  • Message in a Bottle. Ufa 2000
  • Message in a Bottle. Universum Film GmbH 2009
1999 in film Screenplay Denise Di Novi Jim Wilson (producer) Film score Gabriel Yared Caleb Deschanel Steven Weisberg John Savage (actor) Blockbuster LLC
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