| 107th | Top fiction set in Chicago |
| Message in a Bottle | |
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| Directed by | Luis Mandoki |
| Produced by | Kevin Costner Denise Di Novi Jim Wilson |
| Written by | Novel: Nicholas Sparks Screenplay: Gerald Di Pego |
| Starring | Kevin Costner Robin Wright Penn Paul Newman |
| Music by | Gabriel Yared |
| Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel |
| Editing by | Steven Weisberg |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | February 12, 1999 |
| Running time | 131 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
Message in a Bottle is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki. Based on a novel with the same name by Nicholas Sparks, the film stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, and Paul Newman. Message in a Bottle was filmed in Maine, Chicago, and Wilmington, North Carolina in the United States.
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Theresa Osborne works for a Chicago newspaper as a researcher. On a trip to Cape Cod, she finds a mysterious, intriguing love letter in a bottle in the sand, addressed from Garret to Catherine. She is fascinated by it and comes into possession of two more letters by the same person, eventually tracking down the man who wrote them, Garret Blake. He is a boat-builder who lives quietly on the outer banks of North Carolina with his father, Dodge.
Theresa and Garret become better acquainted, but she does not reveal her knowledge of the love letters. Along with the literal distance between them — they live hundreds of miles apart -- there is another problem: Garret cannot quite forgive Catherine for dying and leaving him.
Theresa's career flourishes as the romantic tale of the "messages in a bottle" is told in print, without naming names. Garret makes a trip to Chicago to visit Theresa and her young son. Their new love grows, until one day Garret finds his letters in a drawer in Theresa's apartment. Garret angrily goes home by himself.
A year later, Dodge tracks down Theresa. He informs her that his son Garret has died at sea in a storm while attempting to rescue someone else. A bottle with a message inside was found on his boat. Theresa realizes that it was written a night before Garret's last sailing. In it, he apologizes to Catherine and says that in Theresa he has found a new love, a love he must fight for.
The producers originally planned to film on Tangier Island, Virginia, USA, but some members of the town council objected to the drinking, cursing and sex in the movie and demanded script revisions in exchange for shooting permission. Warner Brothers then tried Martha's Vineyard near Chilmark, Massachusetts, USA, but the Chilmark Conservation Commission turned down a request to build a temporary 3,000-square-foot house on stilts in the dunes near Chilmark Pond.
Message in a Bottle opened #1 in the Valentine Day's weekend of 1999.
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