The Love Letter

1998

Action / Fantasy / Romance

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 78%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 2581 2.6K

Plot summary

20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?

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Top cast

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Elizabeth Whitcomb
David Dukes as Everett Reagle
Campbell Scott as Scott Corrigan
Estelle Parsons as Beatrice Corrigan
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913.96 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 4
1.66 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bettiem 8 / 10

Twenty miles from Boston, a quiet Saturday afternoon, a ton of garden work and an article on Kentuky Derby due, and I'm sitting here bawling.

It was amazing to turn to the Hallmark Channel for a break, and find the beginning of this movie. I said, oh boy, another Christopher Reeve "Somewhere in Time," - I'm not going to watch it, but it was such a pleasant break. A lovely, warm, romantic, sad, corny movie with great acting (David Dukes- War and Remembrance - was a marvelous pompous suitor). absolutely impossible plot, but heart warming, and when it ended, I was still bawling. I haven't figured out why. But Gettysburg, a hundred plus year old woman once a beautiful girl, the Civil War, a confused guy who invents computer games , was so oddball, that I loved it.. To escape into a fine fantasy romance, see this movie, and feel good about it. I rarely cry, but this simple little movie made for TV turned on my waterworks. Now, the garden is beautiful with iris, pansies and buckwheat mulch, and I'm back to the Kentucky Derby article which I hope will be heart warming for Giacomo and jockey Mike Smith. Watch this movie, and you'll do great things, too.
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Reviewed by bettiem 8 / 10

Twenty miles from Boston, a quiet Saturday afternoon, a ton of garden work and an article on Kentuky Derby due, and I'm sitting here bawling.

It was amazing to turn to the Hallmark Channel for a break, and find the beginning of this movie. I said, oh boy, another Christopher Reeve "Somewhere in Time," - I'm not going to watch it, but it was such a pleasant break. A lovely, warm, romantic, sad, corny movie with great acting (David Dukes- War and Remembrance - was a marvelous pompous suitor). absolutely impossible plot, but heart warming, and when it ended, I was still bawling. I haven't figured out why. But Gettysburg, a hundred plus year old woman once a beautiful girl, the Civil War, a confused guy who invents computer games , was so oddball, that I loved it.. To escape into a fine fantasy romance, see this movie, and feel good about it. I rarely cry, but this simple little movie made for TV turned on my waterworks. Now, the garden is beautiful with iris, pansies and buckwheat mulch, and I'm back to the Kentucky Derby article which I hope will be heart warming for Giacomo and jockey Mike Smith. Watch this movie, and you'll do great things, too.

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