Bel Air Entertainment
Di Novi Pictures
Tig Productions
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Message in a Bottle
A story of love lost and found.
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.
- Original title
- Message in a Bottle
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $80,000,000
- Revenue
- $118,880,016
Wuchak
Jun 29, 2020 · via TMDB
_**Enjoyable, but contrived, love story with some very puzzling questions**_ While on vacation in the Northeast a researcher for the Chicago Tribune (Robin Wright Penn) finds a romantic message in a bottle that is truly moving. After her editor prints the letter it becomes a hit and she travels to North Carolina to find the man who wrote the message (Keven Costner). Paul Newman is on hand as the latter’s father while John Savage plays his angry brother-in-law. "Message in a Bottle" (1999) is an entertaining drama/romance with quality actors and East Coast locations. Unfortunately, parts of the contrived plot are too much of a stretch and some seriously perplexing questions are raised that I can’t detail without spoiling the movie for first-time viewers. Write me and I’ll share them with you. Thankfully, there’s too much good to write the movie off as worthless. For instance, there’s a well-done subplot that has to do with manly antagonism and reconciliation. The average male has too much machismo to voice sappy apologies, but they clearly apologize & reconcile in less direct ways. Just read between the lines. When Theresa asks Garrett, "Will you come and visit me,'' Roger Ebert complained about the (supposed) lousy writing of the latter’s response: "You mean, inland?'' I guess he failed to notice that Garrett had a smirk on his face and was playing with Theresa wherein she giggled. Some people complain that the film was shot in Maine while the story takes place in The Outer Banks, North Carolina, which looks nothing like Maine and insults the intelligence of the viewer. In the producers’ defense, they tried to shoot in a couple places further south, but couldn’t get permits and so had to settle for Maine (Bath, New Harbor, Phippsburg & Portland). Yet the coastal scenery isn’t much of a focus, so it’s not that big of a deal. If it really bugs you, just imagine that Garrett throws the bottles into the ocean in Maine and Theresa finds the initial message while vacationing in Nova Scotia; problem solved. The film runs 2 hours, 6 minutes, and was shot in Maine and Chicago, plus some stuff done at Falls Lake, Backlot, Universal Studios, Southern Cal. GRADE: C
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Kevin Costner
Garrett Blake
Robin Wright
Theresa Osborne
Paul Newman
Dodge Blake
John Savage
Johnny Land
Illeana Douglas
Lina Paul
Robbie Coltrane
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Jeffrey Beecroft
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Caleb Deschanel
Director of Photography
Gary Archer
Prosthetics
Lance Gilbert
Stunt Coordinator
Norman Howell
Stunt Coordinator
Erik Rondell
Stunts
Luis Mandoki
Director
Steven Weisberg
Editor
Kevin Beard
Extras Casting
Jim Wilson
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Kevin Costner
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Gabriel Yared
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Diane Warren
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