Message in a Bottle (1999)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.5/10   

Director:

Luis Mandoki

Escritores (WGA):

Nicholas Sparks (novel)
Gerald Di Pego (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 febrero 1999 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

A story of love lost and found.

Plot:

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.

Plot Keywords:

Bottle | Love | Beach | Male Female Relationship | Message In A Bottle

Premios:

5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"Choose between yesterday and tomorrow. Pick one. Stick with it."

Reparto

Kevin Costner	...	Garret Blake
Robin Wright Penn	...	Theresa Osborne
Paul Newman	...	Dodge Blake
John Savage	...	Johnny Land
Illeana Douglas	...	Lina Paul
Robbie Coltrane	...	Charlie Toschi
Jesse James	...	Jason Osborne
Bethel Leslie	...	Marta Land
Tom Aldredge	...	Hank Land
Viveka Davis	...	Alva
Raphael Sbarge	...	Andy
Richard Hamilton	...	Chet
Rosemary Murphy	...	Helen at the B&B
Steven Eckholdt	...	David Osborne
Susan Brightbill	...	Catherine Land Blake

También conocida como:

Mensaje de amor (Argentina) [es]
Mensaje en una botella (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for a scene of sexuality.

Duración:

131 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Norway:11 | UK:12 | Denmark:7 | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:AL | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bath, Maine, USA

Compañía:

Bel Air Entertainment

Trivialidades:

When Garret arrives at Theresa's apartment, the show playing on the TV that she turns off is "Perfect Strangers" (1986) The two main characters in that show worked at a Chicago newspaper, just as Theresa does.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Garret takes Theresa out sailing for the first time on the 40 footer, he removes the sail straps from the foremast boom behind her then heads aft. A few seconds later, from a wider shot, the sail straps are visible on the boom behind her.

Citas:

Theresa Osborne: If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Frasier: Sharing Kirby (#9.9)" (2001)

Banda de Sonido:

Beyond the Blue

"Choose between yesterday and tomorrow. Pick one. Stick with it."

While on vacation, a single mother identified as Theresa discovers a 'message in a bottle' on the shore that has moving honest words of love addressed to a woman named Catherine…

The trail leads her to a sailboat builder named Garrett and also to his father, Dodge in a small North Carolina coastal town… It turns out that Catherine is Garret's deceased wife, and the intriguing letters were written, two years earlier, after her decease…

Some people find the one true love of their lives, if they're fortunate enough… Luis Mandoki's film, in part, turns out to be a choice about what occurs when a person finds that right kind of love, then when he is faced with the impossible, and then when he is given the right to continue with his life and is brave enough to love again no matter how unpleasant his grief is…

As a reclusive widower, Garret was still in deep pain, and entirely devoted to Catherine's memory… He had hard time letting go of the past… Catherine was dead but not forgotten and was simply everywhere…

As a sailor Costner didn't inherit the charm of Newman… He was drawn to Penn by her smile, her beauty, even her mistakes…

Robin Wright Penn was beautiful, delicate and sweet as Theresa… She soon insinuates her way into Garret's life… Her expectations were always too high… Since the beginning, she just had to meet the person that wrote those letters… Her life was changed by them… Eventually when she met Garret that morning, she accepted, without hesitation, to step aboard…

Paul Newman as Dodge liked Theresa instantly… He saw in her the key to his son's emotional recovery…

With a very nice music, and a stunning coastal photography—also the ocean scenes are wonderfully taken—"Message in a Bottle" is definitely a weepy melodrama and a must see for those who believe, or don't, in love…