The Love Letter(s)
Speaking of Ellen, the other night we watched The Love Letter on video. I had seen it twice before, and selected it as fitting the type of film Deb felt like watching that night.
It’s a quirky, different movie, but cute and entertaining. When Deb saw Capshaw on the credits at the beginning, she said “hey, didn’t she marry a communist sympathizer?” Heh. Tom Selleck has a good role, and Ellen shines too. I like the idea of the love letter as almost a character itself, exerting strange influences on the people it meets.
I wasn’t certain she would, but Deb liked it. Definitely recommended as something different. Kind of like romantic comedy, but not exactly the standard happily ever after, straightforward formula.
This is not to be confused with the other movie I have on video, also named The Love Letter, made by Hallmark. That one is a great example of the out of the ordinary choices Jennifer Jason Leigh makes when picking film roles. Existenz is another example.
The Hallmark movie also stars the backwardly named Campbell Scott. An antique desk magically allows a love across time to grow, but how can such a thing ever work out?
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