Robin Wright Penn, whose deft performance is rather more than the movie deserves, is Theresa Osborne, a single mother and researcher at the Chicago Tribune, who picks up one of his love letters in a bottle. He's so "Kevin Costner" he's almost a hologram of himself, something you could order from the Mr. To that audience, I say: Pick up that "Bottle." To my friends, I say: Isn't there a chore in the basement you haven't gotten to lately? I was that annoying moviegoer one recent screening night at the Pentagon City theater, constantly checking his Indiglo watch my best friend on these occasions to see how many times this thing was going to bob before it went down.Ĭostner, who basically plays an archetypal version of himself, is Garret Blake, who builds sailboats in the Outer Banks, says little and writes mournful letters to a lost love called Catherine. It's a destiny romance, a sort of "Sleepless in North Carolina," in which two souls maneuver closer and closer to harmonic convergence while the audience waits with delicious agony in the dark, tear ducts and tissues at the ready.
"Message in a Bottle" is, for Kevin Costner, another handsome day at the office.
Robin Wright Penn and Kevin Costner navigate toward each other in "Message in a Bottle."Ĭontains sexual situations, mild curses and a fist fight
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