Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569806115
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Running Time: 131 minutes
Sales Rank: 51372
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1999
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/18/2006 Run time: 131 minutes Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com:
If, as they say, you're in a certain mood, Message in a Bottle can be just the ticket. Based on Nicholas Sparks's bestselling novel, this handsome but overly calculated romance tale stars Robin Wright Penn as Theresa, a Chicago Tribune researcher who finds a note encased in a green bottle that has floated onto a Cape Cod shore. The message within is a heartfelt, yearning declaration of love to a woman named Catherine, but the author is unknown until Theresa (rather improbably) tracks him down in North Carolina. He's Garret Blake (Kevin Costner), a taciturn builder of sailboats and a grieving widower whose late wife, poetically speaking, was the intended recipient of the seafaring note Theresa found. Theresa, a divorcée with a son, decides to meet Garret, only to find him as bottled-up as his message. Nevertheless, a romance blooms on the strength of quality time in a sailboat and lots of cuddling, though the script tosses in bits of conflict to keep their relationship spicy. Directed by Luis Mandoki (When a Man Loves a Woman), this love story is entirely by the numbers, with Costner inhabiting (rather than performing) a stock fantasy of a man perfect in every way save his broken heart. Penn brings more vibrancy to her equally predictable part, but fortunately for all, Paul Newman, John Savage, Robbie Coltrane, and Illeana Douglas are on hand in nicely textured character parts. Sometimes predictability is exactly what one wants when settling in for an evening of home video, and this movie fits the bill nicely. The appealing cinematography is by ace cameraman Caleb Deschanel. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Message in a Bottle
This is a great movie. It was shipped expeditiously and in great condition. Would do business with vendor in the future.
Rating: - Message In A Bottle
I just love Kevin Koster! Great movie if you're a romantic person!!!! But make sure you have plenty of tissues handy!!!! DVD arrived on time and in excellent condition! Thanks!
Rating: - Message In A Bottle
this movie was amazing.. I loved it, even when i was crying like a baby!
as always true Nicholas Sparks style. even in his movies.. he gets you totally sucked in emotionally. GREAT MOVIE!
Rating:  - "Choose between yesterday and tomorrow. Pick one. Stick with it."
While on vacation, a single mother identified as Theresa discovers a 'message in a bottle' on the shore that has moving honest words of love addressed to a woman named Catherine...
The trail leads her to a sailboat builder named Garrett and also to his father, Dodge in a small North Carolina coastal town... It turns out that Catherine is Garret's deceased wife, and the intriguing letters were written, two years earlier, after her decease...
Some people find the one true love of their lives, if they're fortunate enough... Luis Mandoki's film, in part, turns out to be a choice about what occurs when a person finds that right kind of love, then when he is faced with the impossible, and then when he is given the right to continue with his life and is brave enough to love again no matter how unpleasant his grief is...
As a reclusive widower, Garret was still in deep pain, and entirely devoted to Catherine's memory... He had hard time letting go of the past... Catherine was dead but not forgotten and was simply everywhere...
As a sailor Costner didn't inherit the charm of Newman... He was drawn to Penn by her smile, her beauty, even her mistakes...
Robin Wright Penn was beautiful, delicate and sweet as Theresa... She soon insinuates her way into Garret's life... Her expectations were always too high... Since the beginning, she just had to meet the person that wrote those letters... Her life was changed by them... Eventually when she ... Read More
Rating: - Ocean waves and gorgeous sceneries surround this unique and refreshing love story...
"Message in the Bottle" is, like the tag-line suggests, a tale of love lost and found. The way I was introduced to this film is rather interesting, I suppose. Many years ago I came across it when I was searching online for information regarding the 1977 classic Disney film "The Rescuers." Both films share the theme of the "message in the bottle" so the connection lead me to this 1999 film. Finally, I saw it for sale in a grocery store's bargain DVD bin and just had to bring it home with me, so I did. I could not have been more pleased. The film is touching in many ways, beautifully filmed, with fantastic characters and great acting. It's a refreshing tale of love that does leave a bittersweet impact, and probably will not be forgotten easily. It is also interesting that I found this film so captivating, because romance tales have never really been of interest to me. Emily Brontë's novel, "Wuthering Heights," was the first time I felt interested in a story of love, enough to keep me reading, very intrigued, through its hundreds of pages. "Message in a Bottle" did the same thing, it intrigued me. The gorgeously filmed sceneries automatically appealed to me; sights of lighthouses, docks and ships, ships out at sea, ocean waves, beautiful sunsets... not to forget the message in the bottle. To me it was like watching one of Thomas Kinkade's paintings come to life right before my eyes; the sceneries in this film are that beautiful.
This is the story of a young woman named Theresa, ... Read More
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