To me, this movie is perfection.

Just perfect...

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

One of our finest actresses who has never made it to superstardom, Laura Linney, stars in P.S. from 2004, also starring Topher Grace, Brad Renfro, Gabriel Byrne, Lois Smith, and Marcia Gay Harden.Linney plays Louise Harrington, the admissions director for Columbia Art School. She's divorced from Peter Harrington (Byrne), but they parted friends and get together for dinner weekly. In high school, Louise fell in love with one F. Scott Feinstadt, who died in a car accident. He seems to have been the love of her life.When one F. Scott Feinstadt applies for admission to the school, she is shocked and calls him. It's her old boyfriend's voice. She sets up an interview and when he shows up, he looks just like her F. Scott. It's quite an interview - they wind up having sex in her apartment. They are incredibly attractive to one another, and the age difference doesn't seem to matter.Louise's ex-husband hits her with a brutal admission, and not only that, she learns that her brother Sam (Renfro) knew about it and never told her. She feels betrayed and hurt. Then her best friend Missy (Harden) hears Scott on the phone and is immediately intrigued. Who is this guy? Is it Scott reincarnated, some long lost relative, or just an odd coincidence?I wouldn't have rented this except that I saw a trailer for it on another DVD. It's a very sweet film, with wonderful performances by all involved. Marcia Gay Harden is one of my favorites, and she's just perfect as a wife and mother who wants adventure.Lovely film, excellent cast.

If you approach this movie anticipating that it is a completely far-fetched and unrealistic flick, I think you will find it mildly entertaining.The story of 'P.S' revolves around Louise (Laura Linney) who works in the admissions department of Colombia Art School. In her office, she stumbles across an application letter with the same exact name as an old college beau of hers, F. Scott Feinstadt (Topher Grace), who passed away many years ago. She soon discovers that not only does he have the same name as her old boyfriend, but also looks and sounds exactly like him, AND has his identical talent for painting portraits. All of this combined convinces her that F. Scott is her reincarnated love.Although Louise is still married to her husband Peter (Gabriel Byrne), they have been separated for quite some time. With his recent admission that he is a sex addict, stating that he has slept with hundreds of both men and women, this revelation mentally frees her to pursue a relationship with F. Scott ~ which they do on of very first day of crossing paths.Further adding to the implausible mix is Louise's friend since their college days, Missy (Marcia Gay Harden), who also sees the uncanny resemblance in the two men. As she chased after the old F. Scott back in college (are you keeping up with me here?), she goes after the 'new him' in the present day, which creates a huge fight between the two friends.I won't give away the ending should you decide to view this unique flick after-all. I guess the only MAJOR conundrum I see with 'P.S.' is the way Louise and F. Scott make-out during the entire movie all over the Colombia college campus. I suppose if we're to accept every other outrageous scenario this film is presenting, a potential student locking lips with an Admissions Counselor on school grounds should not be considered remotely abnormal. In the end, gave the film a very generous 5 out of 10*.

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

The film is fascinating to watch, as a remarkable group of actors make a tricky premise psychologically plausible. The actors (Linney, Grace, and Harden in particular) never make a false step in bringing their characters to life, and the implausible premise seems somehow unimportant as they draw the viewer into a believable existential drama. The abrupt and ambiguous ending disappoints and destroys the possibility of regarding the film as a satisfying work of art, but as a complex depiction of a life in which dreams have been destroyed (and perhaps are salvaged), and as a field-day for several great actors, it's an exhilarating experience.