A lacking weeper

Rating: 3/10 (10 December 2008)

If you've gotten to this comment, you pretty much know what this movie is all about: recently widowed Hillary Swank is made whole again by letters that come from her now-dead husband; after a year, she's healed. Yada-yada-yada.
What's wrong with this movie? Let's begin with the writing. Not only is the dialog horribly wooden, but the structure is terrible, and not one single character emerges from the page as a 3-dimensional being.
So let's give the director a break. Stuck with more plod than plot - it wouldn't be easy to breathe life into this DOA movie-thing. It was obviously impossible to bring Harry Connick Jr out of a catatonic state and Lisa Kudrow just falls back to her sitcom tics. (But, don't feel too bad for them - the whole country of Ireland is also bereft of its charm and good looks as well).
This a silly movie; designed to make you cry. If that's what you're into, bring the tissues - but let your brain enjoy something else (like Bridget Jones, for example).