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Message in a Bottle (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 34

Fresh: 10

Rotten:24

Average Rating: 5.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 24 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The story of a long distance love connection that is made when Penn, a Chicago journalist, discovers a love letter that Costner, a widowed sailboat repairer, let drift into the ocean. She quickly... The story of a long distance love connection that is made when Penn, a Chicago journalist, discovers a love letter that Costner, a widowed sailboat repairer, let drift into the ocean. She quickly tracks him down and an honest bond forms between the two. When he discovers that she hasn't been entirely honest with him, the betrayal threatens to ruin what has been, so obviously up to this point, a wonderful, romantic thing. [More]

Starring: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, John Savage

Starring: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas, Robbie Coltrane, Jesse James, Bethel Leslie, Tom Aldredge, Viveka Davis, Raphael Sbarge, Richard Hamilton, Rosemary Murphy

Director: Luis Mandoki

Director: Luis Mandoki
Screenwriter: Gerald Di Pego
Producer: Kevin Costner, Denise Di Novi, Jim Wilson
Composer: Gabriel Yared

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If it had just quit while it was ahead....

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Todd McCarthy
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06/24/06
Derek Adams
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Leaves one feeling empty.

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12/31/05
John Venable
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John R. McEwen
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

If only Costner could be cast out to sea like a bottle.

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03/05/02
Jamie Graham
Sight and Sound

Paul Newman as a cantankerous old man steals this movie with his character's endearing forthrightness.

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02/28/02
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05/11/01
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Tolerate the silly and swoony story and allow yourself to drift away in the gorgeous Caleb Deschanel photography.

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04/28/01
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