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Message in a Bottle

This is Robin Wright Penn's breakthrough to a different kind of acting, and she has a personal triumph; she's been identified with desperate, hard-as-nails characters, but no more.

Newman's performance and an excellent twist in the tale just about save Message In a Bottle from being another run-of-the-mill, run-for-your-life romantic flick.

For anyone who wept hopelessly at the tragic romance of The English Patient, Message in a Bottle is the movie you have been waiting for.

...fans of the book won't be disappointed with the low-key approach to the syrupy material.

...it's a true all-stops-out gusher, the sort of solemn contemporary hankie-fest...