P.S. I Love You is one of my absolute favorite movies and when I saw that it's based on a book I quickly bought it from Borders.I haven't gotten the book yet, but I thought I would blog a little bit about the movie as it's one of my favorites and I watched to for pleasure this past weekend.
The main gist of the story is that Holly (played by Hilary Swank) and her husband Gerry (Played by Gerard Butler) are madly, completely and totally in love and like all people who are in love they fight. The opening scene is a huge blow-out fight that ends with Holly and Gerry running into each others arms and realizing how silly the fight was. The scene ends and the next scene is a funeral - Gerry's funeral. He has died of a brain tumor and a few weeks after the funeral, on Holly's birthday, a cake arrives that says, "Happy Birthday My Love. I love you, Gerry" and a recording attached to the box with a note that says "Play Me" begins one of the most romantic stories of loss and renewal ever. The movie touches on the universal themes of a loved one dying and how to cope with that loss and how to eventually overcome the loss and begin life again. It sounds depressing, and it is a little, but it's also beautiful and happy and wonderful.
The soundtrack is amazing too! Here are links to two of my favorite songs on the soundtrack: Love You to the End by the Pouges and If I Ever Leave This World Alive by Flogging Molly and one more that is not on the soundtrack, but should be, Galloway Girl by Steve Earl.
And if the phenomenal story line and cast is not enough to get you to watch the movie then Gerard Butler should be =)
And if the phenomenal story line and cast is not enough to get you to watch the movie then Gerard Butler should be =)
I, too, love that movie! I guess I didn't think about it being a book, but I would like to read it as well. Gerard Butler is an awesome actor and he is enough alone to watch the movie!
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