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Tweet NEW - The Love Letter DVD - Kate Capshaw (Actor, Producer), Tom Everett Scott (Actor), Peter Ho-Sun Chan (Director) Rated: R Format: DVD
An unsigned and unaddressed love letter creates romantic turmoil in a small seaside town
Guys, who will grow up to be great men, would call The Love Letter a "chick movie." That warning out of the way, for more open-minded guys and the expected predominantly female audience for this movie, it is a summer-time joy that tangos around a New England seaside town definitely in the mood for love and a comedy of errors. It takes one letter to resuscitate dreams and shake the atrophy out of emotions bogged down by time and self-consciousness. When people are missing something in their emotional life, an anonymous letter can set all sorts of possibilities into action.
am always suspicious when a story involves a young man wooing an older woman. Kate Capshaw makes me like Helen, the emotionally alienating/alienated female lead, more than I want. Tom Everett Scott makes Johnny's gangly romantic pursuits clumsy and earnest that is that much more romantic and sexy. Ellen DeGeneres knows where the funny is in simple things like book titles and condiments. Tom Selleck does it for me in this movie by being a vulnerable, funny, handsome fireman experiencing a rough patch but not afraid to go after his dreams later in life.
e Louis Armstrong and tango music set the mood, with a short burst of Tosca to contrast it and scare a character or two into action. Personally, there is one poetic little moment where the Capshaw's voice is reading how the writer "burns" with love and the fireman is coming up the bookstore staircase seeming to give off smoke as an image continues to charm me. Peter Ho-Sun Chan directed a really fun film. So, have a summer/chick film fest with this and a few other fun films on the subject of love like Branaugh's Much Ado About Nothing, 4 Weddings & a Funeral, Roxanne, or Philadelphia Story.

Product Details Actors: Kate Capshaw, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck, Blythe Danner, Ellen DeGeneres Directors: Peter Ho-Sun Chan Writers: Cathleen Schine, Maria Maggenti Producers: Kate Capshaw, Beau Flynn, Karen Koch, Midge Sanford, Sarah Pillsbury Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number of discs: 1 Rated: R Restricted Studio: Dreamworks Video DVD Release Date: November 23, 1999 Run Time: 88 minutes - -