The Love Letter (1998)
20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?
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Ultimately the movie is about Soul Mates... two people fated to find each other life after life after life gone by... and how that simple tether binds them across time and space for eternity... A definite tearjerker, the movie is not flawless, it will leave you with a few questions, mostly analytical questions concerning plot points, but I would still recommend the film, and if you enjoy movies like this, here are some others I would love to recommend.1. The Fountain 2. Somewhere in Time 3. Frequency 4. It's A Wonderful Life 5. Upside Down 6. Time after Time 7. The Time Machine 8. The Triangle
This movie, The Love Letter" is one of my all time favorite television favorites. I really loved it...This movie had everything in a plot that I like in a movie...romance, history, and a mysterious twist..what more could one ask for? Additionally, the direction, acting, and dialogue was great. Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh are such amazing actors. Although made in 1998, I only first saw the movie on television last year, but I bought a copy and have enjoyed it ever since. As I say, it ranks up there as one of my all-time favorite television romantic movies. I would love to see Hallmark make more of these types of romantic dramas as opposed to the real sappy ones they have been making lately.
With a zillion channels to choose from today and only so much time, the first thing I do when I click by is check the actors. I came in today five minutes into this one and saw the name Campbell Scott. Everything he does is worth a look so I was tempted. I'm also a sucker for Jennifer Jason Leigh since I still vividly remember as a teenager enjoying her father Victor Morrow in Blackboard Jungle and of course feeling enraged later at his death due to someone's negligence on a set. I don't have much patience for romantic love stories but I said okay, I'll stick with it for a while.What a brilliant effort all the way around. I expected soap bubbles and got glue instead on the seat of my trousers. Riveting. I had long despaired of American-produced sci-fi -- the aliens always speak and understand English not Cantonese and their "future" values they seem to have gleaned reading yesterday's Los Angeles Times. This was sci-fi at its best, unobtrusively raising the deepest questions touching reality and in this case arriving at the answer that one of the greatest scientist of all times gave. Pierre Laplace postulated that if you could acquire sufficient knowledge, you could then know the position and movement of all the atoms in the universe, with all that implies. But on his deathbed he is reported to have put knowledge in perspective in terms of defining reality. He said all science is trifling, nothing was real but love.I'd give this a 10 but what bothered me were the stamps. Anyone who handled the letters would have noticed something curious about them and asked questions. Or did they change form in transit? And if that happened, why did Corrigan (Scott) go to the trouble of using pen and ink? Oh well, can't be picky, and perhaps in the original story by the Invasion of the Body Snatchers author, this was explained.
If, like me, you like books, stories or movies that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up or/and you have a romantic streak; if you like movies that employ the 'time-travel' device, such as the classic SOMEWHERE IN TIME; then this movie is definitely for you. Based on the wonderful Jack Finney short story of the same name from his collection I LOVE GALESBURG IN THE SPRINGTIME (also in ABOUT TIME), the screenplay has been 'stretched', logically and positively, to include additional material to make a fully-fleshed movie. Well directed and well acted, a couple of hours spent viewing this movie will enthrall you and you'll almost certainly want to watch it several times.