P.S. I Love You..

Cast: Hillary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Sharon McCarthy, Patricia Reilly

Directed By: Richard LaGravenese

Love is an emotion beyond the limits of time. If you love someone so deeply, that you become habituated to their presence in your life, you can’t imagine what would become of your life when they won’t be around… In the emotion, you even ignore the truth of life that every-one has to leave this world one day. “P.S I Love you” is a story that depicts the coming of age of true love. It states the fact that even if a person no longer lives, his love stays, and helps his partner live life.. again…..

Holly (Hillary) and Gerry (Gerard) are a happily married couple living in Manhattan until Gerry dies of a brain tumor. Shaken by the tragedy, Holly withdraws herself from her family, friends and work. So addicted has she become of Gerry’s presence, that she keeps imagining him around, keeps hearing his voice and talking to him. She doesn’t step out of the house for days and doesn’t bother to clean it either. All she does is, pull out Gerry’s clother from the closet and clutches to them or wears them and roams around the house.

This continues until Holly’s family and friends visit her on her 30th birthday and find out what a mess she, her house and her life has become. They decide to force the young widow to face the future and decide what to do with her life next by pushing her to think about her next career move. While they are still helping organize Holly’s apartment, a cake is delivered and on it is a message from Gerry. It also has an audio tape with it on which is Gerry’s voice.

Initially Holly thinks that someone from her family or friends is doing this to make her feel better. But when she listens to the tape, it turns out that it really was from Gerry. He had arranged a series of letters and surprises to be delivered to Holly after his death since he knew she would be distraught. This was his way of pushing her back to reality and life.

As time passes, each new letter from Gerry fills Holly with encouragement and sends her on a new adventure. She is apprehensive of doing some of the tasks assigned to her by Gerry at first, but does them because Gerry had taken a promise from her in the tape. When she actually does them, she feels strangely relieved and filled with energy. Each message from Gerry ends with the sign.. P.S. I Love You……

Watching all this, Patricia (Patricia), Holly’s mother gets concerned that Gerry’s letters are keeping Holly tied to the past. What she doesn’t understand, is that Gerry knew Holly better than her and he knew she would listen to him. He knew what would help her and how. Gerry’s letters were pushing her into the future. With Gerry’s words as her guide, Holly slowly embarks a journey of rediscovery.

Gerry pre-arranged for Holly, Denise (Lisa), and Sharon (Sharon) to travel to his homeland of Ireland, and while there they meet William, a singer who strongly reminds Holly of her deceased husband and coincidentally was his childhood friend. Holly eventually enrolls in a fashion course and discovers she has a flair for designing women’s shoes. A newfound self-confidence allows her to emerge from her solitude and embrace her friends’ happiness. She decides to take her mother on a trip to Ireland, and as the film ends the audience is left with the notion that Holly has opened herself up to the journey that the rest of her life will be, and wherever it takes her; she finally abandons her fear of falling in love.

This movie made me smile a thoughtful smile. It felt so good to witness such a love, be it in a movie. If such love existed in reality, it would be like living in a dream…

The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese (Director) and Steven Rogers is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Cecelia Ahern. The film is dedicated to the memory of producer Molly Smith’s sister Windland Smith Rice.