Message In A Bottle

1999, Movie, PG-13, 132 mins

Message In A Bottle: Review

This blatantly sentimental story, based a best-selling tearjerker, gets the slick Hollywood treatment fans of the genre adore, but those with a limited capacity for hokum should steer clear. Single mom Theresa (Robin Wright Penn), a researcher at the Chicago Tribune scarred by divorce, is jogging on the beach when she stumbles across a heart-rending letter in a bottle. It's addressed to a dead beloved named Catherine and signed "G." Moved by the letter writer's honesty and ... read more leave a comment