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| Message in a Bottle | |
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| Directed by | Luis Mandoki |
| Produced by | Kevin Costner Denise Di Novi Jim Wilson |
| Written by | Nicholas Sparks Gerald Di Pego |
| Starring | Kevin Costner Robin Wright Penn Paul Newman |
| Music by | Gabriel Yared |
| Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel |
| Editing by | Steven Weisberg |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 12, 1999 |
| Running time | 131 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30,000,000 (estimated) |
| Official website • IMDb • Allmovie | |
Message in a Bottle is a 1999 romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki. Based on a novel with the same name by Nicholas Sparks, the film stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, and Paul Newman. Message in a Bottle was filmed in Maine, Chicago, and Wilmington, North Carolina in the United States.
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Plot
Message in a Bottle tells the story of a couple whose love is sparked by a series of three messages in a bottle. Theresa Osborne is a newspaper columnist who went to Cape Cod with her editor, Deanna, and finds a mysterious intriguing love letter in a bottle in the sand, addressed from Garrett to Catherine. She is amazed by the letter and finds two more similar letters from Garrett to Catherine. Eventually, Deanna helps Theresa find Garrett. The two meet and fall in love with each other.
Principal cast
- Kevin Costner as Garrett Blake
- Robin Wright Penn as Theresa Osborne
- Paul Newman as Dodge Blake
- John Savage as Johnny Land
- Ileana Douglas as Lina Paul
- Robbie Coltrane as Charlie Toschi
- Jesse James (actor) as Jason Osborne
- Bethel Leslie as Marta Land
Cameo Role
- Hayden Panettiere Girl sinking on boat
Trivia
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- The movie's producers had originally planned to film on Tangier Island in Virginia. However, some members of the local town council objected to certain facets of the movie--specifically, the drinking, foul language, and sex. They demanded revisions to the script in return for providing permission to film on Tangier Island. Warner Brothers refused, then tried Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, but the local Chilmark Conservation Commission turned down Warner's request to build a temporary 3,000 sf house on stilts in the sand dunes near Chilmark Pond.
- Two of the rental cars used in the movie had nearly sequential license plates (RZ-1551 and RZ-1553).
- When Garret arrives at Theresa's apartment, the show playing on her TV (she turns it off) is Perfect Strangers. The two main characters in that movie worked at a Chicago newspaper, just as Theresa did.
- Irish group Clannad wrote the song "What Will I Do" for the movie.
External links
- Message in a Bottle at the Internet Movie Database
- Message in a Bottle at Allmovie
- Message in a Bottle at Rotten Tomatoes
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Box office number-one films of 1999 (USA) February 14, 1999 |
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