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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404973176
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404973176
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 29796
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Louise is a divroced 30 something admissions officer at columbia. When a graduate school application crosses her desk she arranges to interview the young painter. When scott appears he bears an uncanny resemblence to louses high school love an artist who died in a car crash 20 years earlier. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/28/2007 Starring: Laura Linney Topher Grace Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R
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A May-December romance turns metaphysical in P.S., from the director of the critically acclaimed Roger Dodger. Louise (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me, Kinsey) has a warm friendship with her ex-husband and a satisfying position as an admissions officer for Columbia University, but she's never gotten over losing her first love from high school. When a young man with the same name, face, and artistic talents (Topher Grace, Traffic) as her lost love suddenly arrives for an admissions interview, Louise tumbles into an abrupt and questionable relationship. P.S. is at its best when it follows the tics and foibles of human behavior; Linney and Grace both give vivid, lively performances. But every time reincarnation rears its head, the movie flounders, particularly in clumsy scenes with Louise's predatory best friend (Marcia Gay Harden, Mystic River), who stole Louise's boy so long ago. Fortunately (or strangely), that element is almost a tacked-on subplot; center stage is the romance between Linney and Grace, which glows sweetly. Also featuring Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing) and a woefully underused Paul Rudd (The Shape of Things, Clueless). --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - Emotionless and boring
I had a lot of expectations about this movie after bumping into the dvd in a store and reading the plot. I guess I was expecting something like, well, P.S. I Love You with Hillary Swank but anyway, I didn't let those feelings ruin the screening of the movie.
I was waiting and waiting and waiting....and waiting for SOMETHING in this movie to happen, but it never did. It is UNbelievably boring, and it seems like nothing ever happens in it.
Someone described in the reviews here that the story is a feel-good one, about something too good to be true. Well you know what? Nobody in this movie made me feel like this was that kind of story. Laura Linney is a very good actress, and so Topher Grace, but they didn't conveny any emotion at all. There is not even a really subtle reaction to the discovery that this guy is her long-dead ex boyfriend. You'd think that would warrant a facial reaction that moves you, tears, something. Not even Marcia Gay Harden's character seems to show any of these reactions. I mean, what the heck happens in this movie? Laura Linney finds a guy who is a freaking copy of her dead high school boyfriend, not only looks-wise, but also his behaviour and everything else. She begins dating him (having sex mere hours after meeting him). You would think that would make you show some emotion if it happened to you, right? Well not in this movie. It's like we're in some parallel universe were emotions are so passé, kinda like Beneath The Planet Of The Apes where talking is so rudimental ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the best of 2004. It sparkles and beams.
by dane youssef
"P.S." is one of those rare movies that tells a story which feels too good to be true--the kind that's escapist-fantasy and only seems to happen in movies and in our most desperate dreams.
But then again, sometimes we see and here that it does happen in real life. Once in a blue moon. It's every great success story. Like movie-star Lana Turner getting discovered when working in a pharmacy or Muhammad Ali's almost inhumanly-impossible success with his career in the ring, who talked like a professional wrestler.
"P.S." is a movie like that. It tells a story as sweet as a fairy tale, that maybe could happen in life. Where a woman feels like when she loses someone, she loses her chance in life. But then something else comes along that is so incredible, it feels like the divine hand. Is God giving her a do-over? And not being so subtle about it?
Laura Linney continues her streak of must-see movies and Oscar-caliber performances here as Louise, a middle-aged admissions director who's been through a real losing streak throughout her life.
She's recently divorced from her husband, a compulsive sex-addict who's diddled anyone who's set toe in his class. Her best friend seduced away her boyfriend in high school and is now married in an upper-middle class suburb to a man she threatens to cheat on if he doesn't fulfill his "husbandly duties." She's living the kind of life every woman wants to in her most cynical, vengeful, self-absorbed ... Read More
Rating: - Almost a little too smart for it's own good!
P.S. is a smart screenplay that is almost too smart for it's own good.What,superficially, is a May-December romance between a 39 year old Columbia Grad teacher (Laura Linney) and a young Columbia artist/applicant named Scott (Topher Grace), is really more about the fear of looking backward and trying to recapture the past,(Linney's Louise) and the fear and insecurity of growing up and moving forward (Grace's Scott).Each character goes through epiphanies about who they are, who they were, and who they are hoping to be.The dialogue is HEAVY-HANDED, almost too preachy and too wordy and wise for it's own good,that the characters seem as if they "get things" just a little quicker than the normal person would.I think I figured out the title "P.S"...pre Scott and post Scott.You see,Linney thinks that Scott may be her reincarnate High School sweetheart,who had the same name,who had been killed in a car accident.Obviously, she has never gotten over him and ended up in a broken marriage with Gabriel Byrne, who has a whole ball of problems of his own that we discover.The sound advice in the film,comes from Sammy,(Paul Rudd) who is Linney's "in recovery" drug addict brother. He advises her to "find the pattern" and that will be the success to her getting on in life.Again, even Rudd's character is just a little too wise beyond years for this film.Even actress Lois Smith, as Sammy and Louise's mother, is full of "sagacity" that just seems a little too pat.
All in all, the performances are excellent and Marcia Gay Harden ... Read More
Rating: - laura linney is great!
i did,nt know who she was but i know now!shes now one of my favorites its always good to see an older woman with a younger man i dont want to give the movie away but i think ppl will enjoy it. the relationship between louise and her friend missy is crazy i cant believe how they managed to stay friends its funny!
Rating:  - Resurrection Remembrance and the Truth that Sets You Free
If you loved The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve you will adore this film based on the book. Laura Linney stars as Louise Harrington, an Admissions Director for Columbia University's MFA program. Louise is a 30-something divorcee who still spends time with her ex-husband despite the fact they had no children. Louise's life is devoid of passion or more vitality until she comes across an application to the program from a young man with the same name as her long lost love - Scott Feinstadt. As a teenager Louise loved a boy of the same name who died in a car crash. Now nearly 20 years later Louise is compelled to meet his namesake who also looks like him and has his talent. Before both of them know it an affair blossoms and involves her best friend Missy (who also dated Scott in high school) and her ex-husband Peter intermixed with Louise's mother and recovering addict brother.
As the story progresses Louise has trouble discerning the old Scott and the new one. She also doesn't want to remember the real Scott in high school, the boy who dumped her for Missy, who mistreated her with his devil may care attitude, and didn't really appreciate her feelings. In fact, the original Scott was an artist who didn't really paint her portrait. It was just a canvass that some kid kicked a can on in a surreal fashion. Louise confronts the truth of her long ago love while trying to make sense of her present one. When her best friend comes to town the old rivalry emerges with Louise hearing choice words about how she ... Read More
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