The Love Letter (1999)

88 min · Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy

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Directors

Peter Chan

Cast

Kate Capshaw, Blythe Danner, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Nicholson, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck

The story

Recently divorced Helen MacFarquhar, a middle-aged bookseller, after sending her daughter off to summer camp, is ready to move on in her life. One morning, going through the mail, she discovers an anonymous blue love letter, without an envelope or a name. Having discovered this letter in her mail, in her bookstore, she naturally thinks it is for her.

Catalogue themes and tags

1990s, Bookshop, Fremde, Kleinstadt, Love Letter, Lovestory, Passion, Secret Love, Suspicion, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Verhältnis, verlieben, Romantic comedy, Romance Film, Drama, Comedy, Film adaptation

Genres

Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy

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