P.S. I Love You

Warner Bros., 2007, 122 minutes
 
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Director-writer Richard LaGravenese adapts Cecelia Ahern's chick-lit novel about Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank), a young widow coping with the death of her adorable Irish husband Jerry (gorgeous, blue-eyed Gerard Butler). Shortly after the wake, Holly receives the first of 10 letters Jerry prepared before succumbing to a brain tumor. Each letter encourages her to get out and do something different; each one ends with the line that gives the movie its title.  

Jerry's posthumous plan is to help his widow get on with her life without him. Over the ensuing year, the letters keep coming, one of them sending Holly on a pre-paid trip to Ireland with her two BFFs (Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon). While there, Holly meets a new love interest, the adorable William (gorgeous, brown-eyed Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Also thanks to Jerry's letters, Holly ditches the job she loathes, finds a new professional calling, and grows closer to her mother (played by Kathy Bates).
 
Dogs are scant in this film, but one - a handsome border collie named Brody - appears prominently in a pivotal flashback scene, when Holly and Jerry have their first kiss. (What is any important expression of love without a good dog at its center?) This scene takes place against a backdrop that will inspire you to move the Emerald Isle to the top of the places-to-see-before-you-die list. 

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