Illeana Douglas, John Savage, Kevin Costner

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.

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69% liked it

54,114 ratings

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29% liked it

34 critics

PG-13, 131 min.

Directed by: Luis Mandoki

Release Date: February 12, 1999

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DVD Release Date: August 3, 1999

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  • August 24, 2008
    This movie is too much of a chick flick - and usually I don't mind them.
  • February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • November 16, 2007
    boring...
  • April 2, 2007
    This is one of those typical tear-jerker movies, perfect for an evening with a glass of wine and the right partner..... did something wrong there as I didn't have either! Still the tear ducts need to be washed out every now and then.
    A lot of the storyline is predictable but it...( read more) is done so beautifully that you can easily overlook that.
  • January 31, 2007
    great.
  • November 13, 2009
    Not sure about this one
  • November 12, 2009
    Not as good as I hoped it would be. For this Nicholas Sparks book-turned-movie, I actually read the book first. Sometimes, when I read the book first, I don't really like the movie. Sometiems, when I watch the movie first, I don't really like the book. This was the former case, u...( read more)nfortunately. I loved Robin Wright Penn's character and Robbie Coltrane's (go Hagrid!) character, but Kevin Costner just looked old and his character annoyed the heck out of me. There was a lot of differences between this and the book, actually a lot more than I was expecting. I didn't even really like the book all that much to begin with. It suprises me because I love all of Nicholas Sparks other books-turned-movies, but this one...nope. Oh well.
  • November 6, 2009
    all....thats so romantic and sad..
  • November 2, 2009
    loot of teaaaars :(( what a soulmate!
  • October 25, 2009
    remarkable and amazing

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  • zetaliza
    August 15, 2009
    i really loved this movie ever since when i saw it my tears come out when the story start emotional its a really nice love story it can be happened in a real... i love you cavin costner hahaha....
  • brillorachelleann
    November 13, 2007
    i really love the book..marvelous..hope to see the movie soon..
  • 4sunset
    October 20, 2007
    hay ** I liked that sad end ## and it can tell you --> the message survived !!
  • superzelda
    November 7, 2006
    extremely sad.
  • superzelda
    November 7, 2006
    extremely sad.

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