Message In A Bottle (DVD)

Most people have a favorite genre when it comes to watching videos but I’m just as content watching a full blown weepie as a low budget horror so it’s hard to put into any bracket exactly what makes a good film for me. Message in a bottle is undoubtedly one of the aforementioned weepies so much so that even in my pre-hormonal phase I needed an entire lorry load of kleenex to watch it. It stars the somewhat talented but usually over dramatic Kevin Costner (JFK, Dances With Wolves) stars as Garret Blake, a shipbuilding/restoring widower and Robin Wright Penn (Forest Gump) as Theresa a divorced journalist with a soft spot for romance. After ...  Read the complete review

This movie first appealed to me, because as a child I was always fascinated by messages in bottles, I remember hearing on the news about a young boy in England who had found a bottle with a message in it while walking along the shore - it was from another young boy in France. I thought this would be so cool, so everytime I was at the beach, I always scoured the shore for a bottle - the only thing I ever found was empty coke tins! Oh well! I digress? So what's this movie about? Theresa (played by Wright Penn) is a journalist who works for a major American Newspaper. She's constantly on the look out for a new story. Theresa is ...  Read the complete review

A few months ago, while channel hopping I saw that ?Message in A Bottle? was about to start, and while I have never before felt the urge to watch it, tonight was different. I wanted to relax and be entertained, which is a novelty for me nowadays. The film is based on the novel by Nicholas Spark, and has transferred very well to the big screen. The film begins with Theresa played by Robin Wright Penn, who works in the research department of The Chicago Tribune, finding a message in a bottle while out jogging on the beach. The letter is written to someone called Catherine, and it is full of wishes. The writer has many wishes that they did not fulfill ...  Read the complete review

I like an intelligent film, one with a story that is feasible, because that's just the way I am. I have watched this 1999 movie about three times now, and each time, I notice things that I didn't notice the first time. Tonight, I noticed the beauty of the scenery which is the backdrop of the story. When Nicholas Sparks wrote the novel upon which the story is based, I wonder if he saw actors as brilliant as those used ever being in his story. It's a well directed story and the Director, Luis Mandoki, who also directed 'Angel Eyes' and 'When a Man Loves a Woman'. The story takes us to a chance happening, a once in a lifetime event where reporter, ...  Read the complete review

Attracted by the trailers my better half and I went to see Message in a Bottle at the cinema. We were not to be disappointed by a truly outstanding film. Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn and Paul Newman are all fantastic in a film where a widower writes a letter to his wife, wraps it in a bottle and throws it out to see. Wright-Penn picks it up off a beach and begins a search for the author. To the cynic it is quite predictable what happens, but the twists and turns of love never run smooth and there are enough interesting sidebars to keep everyone interested. It is a terk-jerker, filled with emotion and often tension amid characters, but I found it a ...  Read the complete review