Message in a Bottle (1999)

Directed by

Luis Mandoki

Genre

drama film, romance film, melodrama

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 837 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman finds a love letter in a bottle washed ashore. She tracks down the writer, a grieving shipbuilder, and begins a relationship with him.

romanticbittersweetmelancholicslow-pacedpoignantsentimentalserenelonging

What happens

Message in a Bottle is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and based on Nicholas Sparks's novel Message in a Bottle. The film stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright (under her then-married name Robin Wright Penn) and Paul Newman. It was filmed in Maine, Chicago and Wilmington, North Carolina. The film follows Chicago Tribune writer-researcher Theresa Osborne, who seeks the writer of a letter inside a bottle then falls in love with its shipbuilder author. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 12, 1999. It was panned by the critics, but was a box-office hit, grossing $118 million against a $30 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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