Message in a Bottle
1999
**
Director: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage
A lame, sombre and overlong tearjerker about a woman who falls in love with a taciturn widower who sent bottled love letters to his dying wife. Paul Newman plays the man's father and he provides some badly needed humour to the proceedings. The contrived and frankly ultra-conservative ending finally spoils it all. Adapted from a novel by Nicholas Sparks.
