P.S. I Love You

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 (Hilary Swank) is a ...more

P.S. I Love You is the epistolary version of My Life. Instead of videos, letters are posthumously delivered from beyond the grave and they're addressed to a grieving wife (Hilary Swank), not an unborn child. The films' respective premises are similar, but P.S. I Love You lacks the latter's tolerable sentiment, and when it does display the tiniest sliver of feeling, it's strained and hardly convincing. Hilary Swank is an unlikely romantic heroine, and not just because she's often cast as ...more

For decorated actresses, sometimes it's not enough just to do award-worthy films. Hilary Swank apparently wanted to prove she has a lighter side, hence her involvement in the weepy romantic sort-of-comedy P.S. I Love You. Unfortunately, Swank's knack for the dramatic follows her wherever she goes. Richard LaGravenese's film makes the strange decision to open with her Holly Kennedy entrenched in a knock-down, drag-out argument with her soon-to-be-dead husband (Gerard Butler), which eats up the ...more