Plot
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Release Year: 2007
Rating: 6.9/10 (61,503 voted)
Critic's Score: 39/100
Director:
Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Harry Connick Jr.
Storyline Holly Kennedy is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life - a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry. So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself". In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You. Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past...
Writers: Richard LaGravenese, Steven Rogers
Cast: Hilary Swank
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Holly
Gerard Butler
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Gerry
Lisa Kudrow
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Denise
Gina Gershon
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Sharon
James Marsters
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John
Kathy Bates
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Patricia
Harry Connick Jr.
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Daniel
Nellie McKay
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Ciara
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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William
Christopher Whalen
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George
Dean Winters
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Tom
Anne Kent
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Rose Kennedy
Brian McGrath
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Martin Kennedy
Sherie Rene Scott
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Barbara
Susan Blackwell
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Vicky
Taglines:
His life ended. Now, a new one will begin.
Opening Weekend: $9,283,468
(USA)
(23 December 2007)
(2454 Screens)
Gross: $156,835,339
(Worldwide)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
During the filming of a strip sequence, Gerard Butler's suspenders hit Hilary Swank on the forehead. She received a cut and had to be brought to a hospital where she received several stitches.
Goofs:
Continuity:
In the opening argument scene, Gerry is wearing his suspenders over his shirt, you can see them when he takes off his jacket. He then takes off the suspenders and shirt and is wearing a singlet. Just before he catches Holly when she jumps on him, he is wearing the suspenders over his singlet. And then when they start kissing, the suspenders are gone again.
Quotes: Sharon McCarthy:
You've got a fish! Denise Hennessey:
It's a fish! Holly Kennedy:
Okay! Sharon McCarthy:
Holly, grab the pole! Holly Kennedy:
Okay, I'm grabbing it... I am, I am. Sharon McCarthy:
Take it out of the thingy-majiggy. Hurry it up! You're not holding the ball. Turn the knobby thing. Holly Kennedy:
Will you stop being so butch!
User Review
A very relevant movie for me
Rating: 9/10
As a husband who has a wife battling for her life with recurrent
ovarian cancer, this movie struck very close to home. We a both in our
late 20's and I am facing the possibility of burying my wife far to
young, so suffice to say we both went to the movie and had a hard time
keeping the eyes dry. There is nothing worse then prospect or actuality
of burying your lover and your friend. I know this movie got a lot of
negative reviews but when you see your life mirrored on the big screen
you can't help but be moved by her struggle to move on and his undying
love for her. I see another reviewer said to keep the
boyfriends/husbands home, these people obviously have not faced such
tragic circumstances. Usually I'd be the first to tear apart a click
flick, but this didn't feel as cliché as most and I liked how the
ending wasn't as predictable as click flick movies usually are.
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