Hillary Swank Is Miscast In This Romcom

Rating: 8/10 (1 October 2012)

P.S. I Love You is a film directed by Richard LaGravenese. It stars Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler together with Lisa Kudrow,Gina Gershon,Jeffrey Dean Morgan,Kathy Bates,Harry Connick Jr. and Nellie McKay.It is about a A young widow who discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.The screenplay by LaGravenese and Steven Rogers is based on the novel of the same title by Cecelia Ahern.
A grieving widow finds her husband's warmth radiating from the afterlife when she discovers that he left her a series of tasks to be revealed in ten monthly messages and designed to help her overcome her sorrow while gradually making the transition into a new life. Holly Kennedy is a New York real estate broker whose good-humored husband, Irishman Gerry, always stood by her side. Suddenly, and seemingly out of nowhere, Gerry succumbs to a brain tumor and Holly is left to face an uncertain future. No one in the world knows Holly better than Gerry, not even her mother or her best friends, Sharon and Denise. But while Holly remains unsure if she can go on without the love of her life to help guide her, Gerry has planned ahead. On Holly's 30th birthday, she receives a cake and a special tape recording from Gerry that implores her to get out and celebrate instead of staying in and mourning. Later, as the months wear on, a series of additional messages arrive from Gerry which is always delivered in the most remarkable and surprising of ways. With each new message comes a new adventure, and each letter signs off in the same familiar way: "P.S. I love you." Despite the fact that Holly's mother and friends think these humorous, posthumous messages are keeping Holly bound to the past, the truth is that they are lovingly guiding her into the future while proving that sometimes death isn't just the end, but a new beginning as well.
Hilary Swank may have two Oscars, but P.S. I Love You proves she has plenty to learn about romantic comedies.Too bad that she was miscast in this film.Aside from that,it also happens to be just a standard romantic comedy that is clichéd,formulaic and average.It adds nothing to its genre and the screenplay has already been told many times in other movies.