Manipulative drivel

Rating: 2/10 (19 August 2007)

I'm as much of a sucker for a good chick flick as any other woman, but this is just ridiculous! It's the cinematic equivalent of eating one of those big plastic bags of cotton candy all by yourself...it might sound good, but you'll feel kind of nauseated after.
It alternates between a pretty young couple yelling at each other and then groping each other, and their future selves in a Twilight Zone nursing home furnished right out of Crate & Barrel where all the female patients always have freshly applied lipstick. Almost all the plot points are telegraphed in about the first 10 minutes (except for that supremely stupid ending...they died happily ever after, just because they wanted to).
A few observations: Why is she so surprised her mother hid the letters? Isn't that something a protective mother would do in those days? Didn't she know how to write? And considering they've been married for oh, about 50 or 60 years in the nursing home scenes, why do none of their children look over 30? Did she serve a long stint in a convent at some point?