The Love Letter (1998) (TV)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Dan Curtis

Writers (WGA):

Jack Finney (short story)
James S. Henerson (television story)

Release Date:

1 February 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Romance

Tagline:

A love story that touches two lives....a century apart.

Plot:

Scotty Corrigan buys an antique desk and finds a Civil War-era letter inside it, written by a woman who died over a hundred years ago...

Plot Keywords:

Letter | Desk | Love | Pen Pal | Time Travel

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Campbell Scott	...	Scott Corrigan
Jennifer Jason Leigh	...	Elizabeth Whitcomb
David Dukes	...	Everett Reagle
Estelle Parsons	...	Beatrice Corrigan
Daphne Ashbrook	...	Debra Zabriskie
Myra Carter	...	Clarice Whitcomb
Gerrit Graham	...	Warren Whitcomb
Irma P. Hall	...	Mae Mullen
Richard Woods	...	Jacob Campbell
Kali Rocha	...	Flossy Whitcomb
Laurie Kennedy	...	Lavinia Whitcomb
Edgar Smith	...	Potts the Postman
Cara Stoner	...	Maggie the Maid
George Gaffney	...	Bike Rider
Tom Riis Farrell	...	Scott's Boss

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:6 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Company:

Hallmark Entertainment

Trivia:

Based on a short story of the same name by Jack Finney. The story was first published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on August 1, 1959, and reprinted in the same magazine on January/February 1988.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The trees surrounding the house should have been much smaller in the 19th century (or larger in the 20th)

Movie Connections:

References Gone with the Wind (1939)

Love can Conquer Mountains but can it conquer Time..?

I gave this movie the highest rating for at the end there is two questions that the viewer is left to answer.....Why did these events happen and why to these two people..? The answers are there but you are left to find them.

An antique desk is purchased. Inside, in a secret compartment, is a letter written 100 years earlier. The letter is to a phantom man. The secret love created in the mind of a lonely girl. A young mans finds the letter and feels the pain the girl who wrote must have felt when waiting for a love that wasn't there.

A strange occult mother convinces her son to answer the letter and comes up with a scheme to do it. Thus begins a love affair where the participants are separated by 100 years in time.