Stars: Kate Capshaw, Blythe Danner, Ellen DeGeneres, Geraldine McEwan, Julianne Nicholson, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck, Gloria Stuart

Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan

Summary: A love letter arrives in the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea but none of the residents know who it's from or who it's for. Helen MacFarquar decides to investigate but by doing so involves herself with two very different men...

When a mysterious love letter arrives to a quiet New England town, everything starts to go nuts. Watch as Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Selleck, and Tom Everett Scott stir things up in this romantic comedy.

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Its ads portrayed The Love Letteras a wacky farce, while critics largely ignored it, presuming it to be a vanity project from Kate Capshaw (better known as Mrs. Steven Spielberg). But The Love Letteris neither; on the contrary, it's a low-key but surprisingly rich and touching film about love, illusions, and regret. Helen (Capshaw), a bookseller in a small seashore town, discovers an unsigned love letter that's fallen into the cushions of a couch in her store. The letter doesn't say who it's for, but Helen assumes it's for her and starts wondering who sent it. One would expect this to lead to a whirling comedy of mistaken identities, but after some amusing daydream moments, the movie follows its story with subtlety and nuance. The characters behave according to their own needs and desires, rather than the demands of standard Hollywood goofiness. The performances--from a cast including Tom Selleck, Tom Everett Scott, Ellen DeGeneres, newcomer Julianne Nicholson, and others--are uniformly unforced and natural. Viewers weary of the hyped-up, absurd emotional climaxes of most so-called romantic comedies will find a respite here. The Love Letteris a genuinely charming film. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, English, Danish, Swedish
Year:	1999
Release Date:	June 19, 2006
Runtime:	88 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D S L 1354
Keywords:	Love, Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Letter, Romantic, Drama
Genre:	Drama