Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

toll-8 P.S. is a story about having the opportunity to re capture first love with Laura Linney believing Topher Grace is the reincarnation of the first boy she fell for. This film sounds spiritual but believe me it is not.Louise (Laura Linney) is Head of Application at Colombia University. She receives an applicant from a guy named F.Scott Feinstadt. Looking like she has seen a ghost, she phones up the applicant and has a rather unprofessional conversation with him. He seems a little rude, especially for someone who has just received a phone call to a University he has applied for. She schedules an interview with him but he is considerably late, something again she seems to get over with fast. To then make this unprofessional turn of events even more unprofessional, she takes him home and sleeps with him. At this point you don't really understand why and it just seems all a bit unrealistic. They then seem to begin a relationship which seems fairly untrue but at least the actors manage to make it seem slightly believable. We then find out that she believes he is the reincarnation of her first love, who died in a car accident twenty years ago. He looks the same, has the same name and even draws like him. I feel like I may have given the story away here but I haven't cause if you watch the trailer this is the information you are given, even though you don't find this out until half an hour before the end.The film though isn't about the spiritual side and knowing the story before the reveal is not a problem as really it is about Louise's relationships with other people in her life. Of course F.Scott (Grace), the boy she believes is her dead former boyfriend. Peter (Byrne), her ex-husband with who she has a friendly relationship with but he is hiding a naughty secret. Her best friend Missy (Harden), the woman who also believes that Louise is right about F.Scott, but for all the wrong reasons and her brother Sammy (Paul Rudd), a rehabilitating addict who Louise struggles to see eye to eye with. This is where the film gets its drive, the relationships. The spiritual side may be the catalyst but it is the reason all is revealed in the relationships and how they all suffer from there on in.Linney is on top form throughout and makes her character believable. She plays the woman who is unsure about everything with absolute ease and even manages to have her boobs hanging out for most of the film. Grace is not quite as good but makes his relationship with Linney more believable as the film goes on. At first it seems forced due to the ninety minute running time but slowly they seem too fall into it. Byrne is also good and he and Linney share an emotional scene where he reveals his secret, which will have you trying to slide a lump back down your throat. The acting in this scene is great to watch. Harden and Rudd are both OK but never really have much screen time to make a large impact.The film is a lot more enjoyable then I was expecting and I have to say I was pleased with the final outcome. Although the film doesn't blow you away it will get you emotionally involved and Linney's performance makes you believe in her confusion. A steady film with lots to like. Oh except for the title as I still have no idea why it is called P.S.

abyoussef by Dane Youssef "P.S." is one of those rare movies that tells a story which feels too good to be true--the kind that's escapist-fantasy and only seems to happen in movies and in our most desperate dreams.But then again, sometimes we see and here that it does happen in real life. Once in a blue moon. It's every great success story. Like movie-star Lana Turner getting discovered when working in a pharmacy or Muhammad Ali's almost inhumanly-impossible success with his career in the ring, who talked like a professional wrestler."P.S." is a movie like that. It tells a story as sweet as a fairy tale, that maybe could happen in life. Where a woman feels like when she loses someone, she loses her chance in life. But then something else comes along that is so incredible, it feels like the divine hand. Is God giving her a do-over? And not being so subtle about it? Laura Linney continues her streak of must-see movies and Oscar-caliber performances here as Louise, a middle-aged admissions director who's been through a real losing streak throughout her life. She's recently divorced from her husband, a compulsive sex-addict who's diddled anyone who's set toe in his class. Her best friend seduced away her boyfriend in high school and is now married in an upper-middle class suburb to a man she threatens to cheat on if he doesn't fulfill his "husbandly duties." She's living the kind of life every woman wants to in her most cynical, vengeful, self-absorbed fantasies. She's getting older, life's getting harder (and it hasn't been very charmed to begin with). She begins to see all her hopes and dreams fading fast. And things get even more interesting when see has a private one-on-one interview with a potential art student.This guy is just her type. Not only, but… he bares an uncanny resemblance to her late college boyfriend, an art major with a passion that matched hers. This guy doesn't just look--he sounds, acts, behaves and his art is even similar. Louise is in shock.What is this? Coincidence? Incidental? Has she been working herself too hard? Stress? Reincarnation? An escapist-fantasy movie-plot? Whatever it is, Louise is rubbing here eyes while warming up to this guy. Getting to know him… finds herself feeling something…. While trying to keep her feelings at bay. She's a skeptic. She's got one heck a heck of a track record.One of the most refreshing things about the actress Laura Linney is that she's not just another manufactured beauty from off the assembly line. She's not just another actress. She's not "one of a million." She's just so real. She's not movie-star-ish.She doesn't wear designer clothes wherever she goes, live in a six-story mansion of Muhulland Dr, smoke cigarettes from a long black holder and have a private trophy room for all her honors. When she acts, it doesn't feel like acting. You feel you know her. She's a real person.The same hold true for Topher Grace, which explains his success as an actor. He seems so adult, so grown-up for his age. Grace is charismatic and seems smart, his gift and his power on-screen doesn't come from a natural Brando-like acting talent, but his face, his body, his voice, his personality. Somehow, everything he says sounds like he means it. He's so square, so on-the-level. All he has to do is speak to convince you that he's legit. As an actor, Grace has a style all his own which may or may not be intentional. He has an Anti-Brando method. He never changes his appearance or voice at all in his roles, but he has an earnest, open-faced, true-to-life and genuinely human way in every movie he so much as touches. Which explains why Hollywood keeps throwing mountains of scripts his way and why every movie he's in, he's given a nomination for something.This is some of the best acting either Linney or Grace has ever done so far, pure and simple.Gabriel Bryne, one of the finest actors in the world brings his trade-mark debonair and charisma in the role of Peter Harrington, Louise's ex-husband who's nasty habit primarily caused their divorce. There scenes that poke fun and make light of his "f-----g" habit are almost worth the rental price.Which is why he takes home award after award for nearly every movie he does, because something about his whole appearance and personality makes it come across like he's just himself being himself, not an actor.While "P.S." may just come across as a woman's picture (and it may well be), this isn't just a moody, sensitive, overly-emotional "chick-flick" to be seen on a "woman's day." This is a movie about some people who are seriously dealing with the trials of life at a turning point of age.Paul Rudd, who been the key performance in some damn good movies, has basically just a little cameo, but as the estranged brother, he gives us further magnified scope into Louise's little life. He's a reformed junkie with a condescending, sadistic streak towards his big sis.The movie has a deep, human, true-to-life atmosphere all throughout. There's nary a moment that is written or executed in a way that feels contrived. Nothing in "P.S." needs willing suspension of disbelief. Everything feels so beautiful and natural as the falling of the rain.Movies like "Birth and "Return To Me" have tackled this subject before, but here it feels so legitimate. Like "Rocky," this one makes us believe clichés can happen… and make us care.--P.S, Dane Youssef

mikemelic i just stumbled across this movie while i was looking for another movie and thought i would read what it is about and I read the plot or the out line of this movie, haven't seen this movie as such but in reading the outline of the movie, it sounds very similar to the 80s movie 'chances are' with Cybill Sheppard which i must say is better. but thats only going on what i read. i still need to see it. it sound like a remake with unknown actors. which is probably why it didn't come out at the movies or even got a mention. Not sure i would bother renting it out to see it doesn't sound like something i would enjoy. but i guess if you like the romantic stuff and like watching not so good remakes then you might just like this movie. but i suggest u watch 'chances are' you probably end up agreeing with me in saying that chances are is better.

mehunterbtown OK, my husband and I sighed and turned this movie off maybe halfway through, so I may not be really qualified to review it. Still, that action may speak for itself. I would just like to know: What is it that makes Hollywood think we all want to watch movies about older women making it -- er, having relationships -- with younger men? I guess since American Beauty won its Oscar for a middle-aged man trying to pork his daughter's best friend, movie makers think they can make a go of it with the genders turned around, despite the warnings of Oedipus (or maybe BECAUSE of the warnings of Oedipus, I don't know.) But it failed in That Evening Star. It failed in In Love And War, despite the extreme circumstances and only 6 years age difference. I couldn't buy it between Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg in Prime. And now Laura Linney and Topher Grace can't make it work either. It's just, well, how do I put this? . . . Off-putting. Disturbing. Repulsive. Gross. All this despite the so-called "redemption" and the swell of happy music just before credits roll. Such relationships don't have a chance -- not in real life, and not in the movies. I don't care HOW "hot" the woman looks. (And yes, I'm a middle-aged woman.) So come on, Hollywood. Give us a break, and reach somewhere else for your different kicks. This avenue should stay off-limits.