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The Love Letter (1999)
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11/08
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The back cover of the DVD case for The Love Letter claimed to feature an all-star cast.
Wha...wha...wha...what? Kate Capshaw is described as an all-star given the fact that she desecrated
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Tom Everett Scott is an all-star given the fact that he's a full-blown dork
who hasn't starred in a hit movie apart from That Thing You Do!? Ellen DeGeneres is an all-star given
the fact that many people including me cannot stand her? Tom Selleck is an all-star given the fact that he turned down the
role of Indiana Jones so he could focus on his TV show?
Boy, Tom Selleck looks silly with these stupid glasses on. By the way, DreamWorks, which is co-run by Steven
Spielberg, financed The Love Letter. He's married to Kate Capshaw. Now, you can see how the old hag found work in
Hollywood. Of course, this stinker lost over $12 million at the box office.
The film is mostly of the artsy-fartsy fluff about idiotic men and women who live in a picturesque Maine town and fall
in love when one of the either sex reads a love letter. It's like Chocolat but with love letters. The rest is
disastrous, having similar scenes to Mentos commercials. By the way, I have a question: if the woman wrote the letter and gave it to
her lover, then why would the letter be displaced when it should've been stored away in a lockbox?
All in all, The Love Letter is a vomit-inducer.