Message In A Bottle

Starring: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn Director: Luis Mandoki Original UK Premiere: 1999 Dvd Release: 18th October, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Romanian

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If, as they say, youre in a certain mood, Message in a Bottle can be just the ticket. Based on Nicholas Sparks bestselling novel, this handsome but overly calculated romantic tale stars Robin Wright Penn as Theresa, a Chicago Tribune researcher who finds a note encased in a green bottle that has floated onto a Cape Cod shore. The message within is a heartfelt, yearning declaration of love to a woman named Catherine but the author is unknown until Theresa tracks him down in North Carolina. Hes Garret Blake , a taciturn builder of sailboats & a grieving widower whose late wife, poetically speaking, was the intended recipient of the seafaring note Theresa found. Theresa, a divorcée with a son, decides to meet Garret, only to find him as bottled-up as his message. Nevertheless, a romance blooms on the strength of quality time in a sailboat & lots of cuddling, though the script tosses in bits of conflict to keep their relationship spicy. Directed by Luis Mandoki , this love story is entirely by the numbers, with Costner inhabiting a stock fantasy of a man perfect in every way save his broken heart. Penn brings more vibrancy to her equally predictable part but fortunately for all, Paul Newman, John Savage, Robbie Coltrane & Illeana Douglas are on hand in nicely textured character parts. Sometimes predictability is exactly what one wants when settling in for an evening of home video, & this movie fits the bill nicely. The appealing cinematography is by ace cameraman Caleb Deschanel.

Kevin Michael Costner is an American film actor & director who has often produced his own films. Born in Lynwood, California, Costner spent his teenage years & pre-actor adulthood in Orange County, California, graduating from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California in 1973 & earning a B,A. in business from California State University, Fullerton in 1978. Costners most popular success was with the epic Dances with Wolves. He directed & starred in the film & served as one of two producers. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards & won seven, including two for him personally. A number of his film efforts after that success have been criticized for being too long & overly serious & for squandering financial resources. The science-fiction epics Waterworld & The Postman was both major disappointments at the box office. Costner was cast in the hit The Big Chill. He filmed several scenes which were planned as flashbacks, but they never made it to the final cut. He was the friend who committed suicide, the event around which the plot of the movie revolves. Posters Of Open Range

Editors Choice: Dances With Wolves, Open Range, Rumour Has It, The Postman, Dragonfly, Thirteen Days, For Love Of The Game, Waterworld, View DVDology

Luis Mandoki is a film director of the Cinema of Mexico & Hollywood. Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico & at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing & the London International Film School. While attending this last institution he directed his first short film Silent Music which won an award at the the International Amateur Film Festival of Cannes Film Festival in 1976. Back in Mexico he directed short films & documentaries for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista, Conacine & the Centro de Produccion de Cortometraje. In 1980 he received an Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy of Film for his short film El secreto. Four years later, his film Motel was selected to represent Mexico in film festivals around the globe. A true story, a movie about the struggles of handicapped Gaby Brimer. This film was nominated for both the Academy & Golden Globe Awards. For the next 15 years he filmed only in English until the critically acclaimed Voces inocentes of 2004. This film gave him a Best Director nomination for the Ariel Award in 2005. Posters Of When A Man Loves A Woman

Editors Choice: Trapped, Angel Eyes, Message In A Bottle, When A Man Loves A Woman, Born Yesterday, White Palace, Identity, The Bone Collector, View DVDology

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