George DelHoyo, Miranda Otto, Nicholas Bell

Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "Dead Letter ...( read more  read more... )Office" stamped on the front. As an adult, she becomes consumed with a desire to find him and takes a job with the Dead Letter Office, convinced that she can use them to fulfill her romantic notions of a reunion with her father. What awaits her at the DLO is far more than that.

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Directed by: John Ruane

Release Date: August 20, 1998

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DVD Release Date: October 9, 2007

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  • December 27, 2007
    I like Miranda Otto - and this I believe is my favorite of her performances. This Aussie film is about searching and longing for futile things - a home perhaps we cannot have and in our maturity finding the home that IS or can be - and not spending our life mourning what we no l...( read more)onger or cannot have. Sentimental perhaps and a might too slow in the telling - but overall I enjoyed.

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