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Fandango latest reviews Vanessa Redgrave and Amada Seyfried in "Letters to Juliet." Search movie showtimes and buy Sex and the City 2 tickets. Letters to Juliet The Father of My Children Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time BY ROGER EBERT / May 12, 2010 about us Survival of the Dead Get Him to the Greek I know “Letters to Juliet” is About the site » a soppy melodrama, and I Holy Rollers don’t mind in the least. I cast & credits Marmaduke Site FAQs » know the ending is Micmacs preordained from the setup. Sophie Amanda Seyfried Splice Contact us » I know the characters are Claire Vanessa Redgrave more current releases » broad and comforting Victor Gael Garcia Bernal Email the Movie stereotypes. In this case, I Charlie Christopher Egan Answer Man » one-minute movie reviews simply don’t care. Lorenzo Franco Nero Sometimes we have Bobby Oliver Platt still playing personal reasons for on sale now responding to a film. Summit Entertainment presents a 45365 film directed by Gary Winick. “Letters to Juliet” is about After.Life Written by Jose Rivera and Tim Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), The Art of the Steal Sullivan. Running time: 101 an American girl who visits Babies Verona with the man she’s minutes. Rated PG (for brief rude The Back-up Plan engaged to marry (Gael behavior, some language and Garcia Bernal). He’s always incidental smoking). The Bounty Hunter leaving her behind to Chloe investigate wine and truffles Printer-friendly » City Island Buy now » for his New York E-mail this to a friend » Clash of the Titans restaurant. She visits the Date Night house allegedly inhabited Death at a Funeral by Shakespeare’s Juliet. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Below the balcony there, lovelorn women for years have posted “letters to Juliet,” asking for The Eclipse advice. Exit Through the Gift Shop The Father of My Children Sophie finds a letter 50 years old, written by a young British girl Formosa Betrayed Buy now » about a Tuscan boy she met, fell in love with and allowed to fall out Get Him to the Greek of her life. Sophie writes to the girl, the letter amazingly finds its way, The Girl on the Train and soon Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) and her grandson Charlie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Christopher Egan) arrive in Verona. So now, if we’re experienced moviegoers, we know what must happen by the end of the story. The Good Heart The Greatest All of this is wrapped up in unimaginably beautiful shots of the Italian Green Zone http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100512/REVIEWS/100519988 Page 1 of 3 Letters to Juliet :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews 10-06-03 1:56 PM

countryside, the warmth of the friendship between Sophie and Claire, Greenberg and visits to many of the men named Lorenzo Bartolini, which was Harry Brown the name of the boy Claire loved so long ago. A hard-hearted realist Buy now » Holy Rollers would suggest that Sophie help Claire check out the possible Home Lorenzo Bartolinis by use of the phone, but no. “Letters to Juliet” requires the three of them to visit the candidates in person, leading Hot Tub Time Machine to a series of false leads and at last, of course, to the real Lorenzo How to Train Your Dragon Bartolini (Franco Nero). Hubble 3D The Human Centipede As it happens, this story stirred memories of romantic memories in Iron Man 2 my own life. Once in a small hill town outside Rome, under a full The Joneses moon, I stood before the balcony being used by Franco Zeffirelli for Just Wright Buy now » his great film “Romeo and Juliet” (1968), and heard Nino Rota hum his theme music to Zeffirelli. Some years later, I stood beneath the Kick-Ass “Juliet’s Balcony” in Verona itself with a woman dear to my heart and The Last Song saw the notes pinned to the wall. Leaves of Grass Letters to Juliet And the very first movie set I ever visited, before I was yet a movie The Losers critic, was “Camelot” (1967). On that set I met and interviewed Marmaduke Vanessa Redgrave, who was not yet 30, and Franco Nero, who was Micmacs 26. They played Guenevere and Lancelot. They fell in love on the set, married and had a child. Finally on New Year’s Eve 2006, they The Most Dangerous Man in America Buy now» married. Even earlier, Franco walked Vanessa’s daughter Natasha Mother Richardson down the aisle when she married Liam Neeson. Mother and Child My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done So you see, when Vanessa marries Franco 40 years after falling in Nick Nolte: No Exit love with him, and they are playing characters who meet after 50 A Nightmare on Elm Street years, and this all has to do with Juliet’s balcony — reader, what am Our Family Wedding I to do? I am helpless before such forces. Vanessa Redgrave recently lost her sister Lynn. I met Lynn once on The Perfect Game London. I went to her house for tea. This was not long after the Please Give Buy now» success of “Georgy Girl.” My interview has been lost in the past, but I Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remember the feeling of the day, Lynn sitting cross-legged on the Princess Kaiulani carpet beside to her coffee table, smoking and jolly, a famous Red Riding Trilogy actress friendly to an unknown kid her own age. Remember Me Repo Men I have strayed far from the film. But I’ve told you what you need to know about it. I also want to observe that our response to every film Ricky depends on the person we bring to it. Pauline Kael said she went to Robin Hood a movie, and the movie happened, and she wrote about what The Runaways changed within her after she saw it. This is quite valid. Sometimes, The Secret in Their Eyes Buy now» however, we go to a movie, and our lives have happened, and we The Secret of Kells write about what hasn’t changed. Sex and the City 2 She's Out of My League Lose 46 Lbs in A Shine of Rainbows 4.0% Fixed Rate Refinance 3 Months? Splice $160,000 Mortgage for $633/mo. Free. Discover the MortgageRefinance.LendGo.com The Square Shocking Truth Survival of the Dead About Canada's That Evening Sun Hottest Diet... Retail & Wholesale Tie Dye Vincent: A Life in Color WeeklyHealthC… Wide variety of tie dyed apparel. www.tiedyeusa.com Vincere Waking Sleeping Beauty Your city: Who Do You Love? Learn the Basics of Forex The Yellow Handkerchief Mom Free Guide. Free Practice Account. Discovers $4 www.GFTforex.com more current releases » Whitening Trick on dvd Goldline®: Invest in Gold Dentists Do NOT Gold Delivered to Your Door. Want You To Know Goldline.com/Gold new on dvd About This Teeth Whitening… The Wolfman (6/1) ConsumerNewsD… Ads by Yahoo! Sweet Liberty (6/1) The Rookie (6/1) Alice in Wonderland (6/1) Your city: Voyager (5/25) The Road (5/25) Mom Making Dear John (5/25) $6500 a Month Walkabout (5/18) @ Home Valentine's Day (5/18) The Spy Next Door (5/18) She earns $6500 a month working more new on dvd » online at home, read how she... coming on dvd world13news.c… more coming on dvd » great movies on dvd

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