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Movie Profile
Letters to Juliet
2010 · United States - Gary Winick
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is a young American woman who works for The New Yorker as a fact checker. To put some spark in her life, she decides to go on a 'pre-honeymoon' with her chef fiancé Victor (Gael García Bernal) to Verona, Italy. However the workaholic Victor is unmoved by the romance of Italy and utilizes his time to rather do research for his soon-to-open restaurant, ignoring Sophie. The lonely Sophie discovers by chance an unanswered "letter to Juliet" by a Claire Smith from 1957—one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet". She answers it and soon enough the now elderly Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) arrives in Verona with her handsome barrister grandson Charlie (Chris Egan), who works for human rights.
Genres:
Romance, Drama, Comedy
Release date:
2010-05-14
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Rotten Tomatoes
20 Critic reviews
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Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
January 03, 2011 read full article
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Amy Biancolli
San Francisco Chronicle
Not to be a cynic or anything, but maybe a fictional 13-year-old isn't the best source of advice for the lovelorn.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail
As you might guess, after a great deal of sniping Sophie and Charlie supposedly fall for each other. But the audience never buys it.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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Tom Long
Detroit News
An amusing, touching, reassuringly wholesome romantic travelogue of a film that flies by on its way to the inevitable happy ending.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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Joy Tipping
Dallas Morning News
Cinematographer Marco Pontecorvo's sun-drenched palette would be a perfectly sound reason to see this film, but happily it's not the only one.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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A.O. Scott
New York Times
Letters to Juliet represents an interesting paradox: it is a movie that is very nearly perfect without being especially good.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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James Rocchi
MSN Movies
... while [Vanessa] Redgrave can't cut the cliches out of Letters to Juliet entirely, she at least cuts through them occasionally.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
Save yourself 10 bucks, and an hour and 45 minutes of your precious time.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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Kyle Smith
New York Post
The story is as straight and obvious as raw spaghetti.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Redgrave brings a lovely gravity to the lightweight proceedings, while Seyfried again proves an unusually levelheaded presence.
May 14, 2010 read full article
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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Redgrave is incandescent, and casting Franco Nero as Lorenzo was inspired.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
Salon.com
Letters to Juliet is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy -- and I mean that in a good way.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Claudia Puig
USA Today
There are worse ways to spend a couple of hours. Set in some stunning locales in Italy, Letters is a guilty pleasure that's lighter on the guilt and heavier on the pleasure.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
What's important is that it avoids the unfunny jokiness and juvenile tendencies that define too many romantic comedies while also sidestepping the mawkishness of the Nicolas Sparks-inspired dramas.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Mary F. Pols
TIME Magazine
I'd take any woman in my life, ages 10 to 100, to Letters to Juliet and my guess is we'd both leave with a little Italian glow.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Jason Anderson
Toronto Star
Letters to Juliet offers little to viewers besides many trite truisms about the ways of the heart, some sumptuous views of the Tuscan countryside and a lovely performance by Redgrave.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
Ms. Redgrave gives the film, which was directed by Gary Winick, a heart and a buoyant spirit. Seeing her in action is like sitting in on a master acting class.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
A sugary paean to quixotic cliches and a film destined to be a guilty pleasure for some (me included, sigh) and the painful price of a relationship for others (so steel yourselves).
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
This one burns going down, like cheap Chianti.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
Redgrave! Slim and silvery as lightning, she is always a revelation. She accelerates the movie by slowing down to silent stillness in order fully to hear -- and carefully digest -- what others do and say.
May 13, 2010 read full article
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