Letters to Juliet

Theatrical Release Date: 2010 05 14 (USA)

UPC: 025192078149

Studio: Summit Entertainment

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Scatological Humor, Smoking, Mild Language]

Summary: An American girl discovers a love letter that changes her life in this romantic comedy starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. The setting is Verona, Italy -- the city where Romeo and Juliet first met. In Verona, there's a wall where the lovelorn leave notes, hoping that Juliet will answer their inquiries about love. Sophie (Seyfried) is part of a team of volunteers who respond to the letters. When Sophie answers a letter from 1957, the woman who wrote it (Redgrave) decides to seek out the one that got away, and romance starts to blossom all around. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Romance

Features: Deleted and Extended Scenes
The Making of Letters To Juliet: In Italia
A Courtyard in Verona
Audio Commentary with Amanda Seyfried and Director Gary Winick

Letters to Juliet

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 09/14/2010

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DHMA null, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 105 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Letters to Juliet
1. Fact Checker [6:26]
2. My Sweet Sophia [4:02]
3. The Secretaries Of Juliet [7:39]
4. The Most Amazing Day [8:06]
5. She's Come To Find Her Lorenzo [4:19]
6. A Story Worth Telling [3:18]
7. The First Lorenzo [6:34]
8. Life Is The Messy Bits [5:59]
9. I Have A Good Feeling About This [6:05]
10. Do You Believe In Destiny? [5:14]
11. One Of The Great Joys In Life [4:10]
12. Charlie's Apology [1:22]
13. Carpazo Wine [4:16]
14. Don't Wait 50 Years Like I Did [7:29]
15. Going To Be Published [6:11]
16. The Wedding Ceremony [6:22]
17. What If [3:44]
18. Made For Each Other [3:38]

Alaina O'Connor

Amanda Seyfried seems to be stuck in a rut with a recent string of bland romantic comedies in which she plays wide-eyed young women in pursuit of love, and nothing's really changed with her latest film, Letters to Juliet, a syrupy romantic comedy that takes a page from the ultimate love-story playbook, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. But unlike the Elizabethan-era play, Letters unfolds as a perfectly pleasant story that's neither epic nor abysmal. Despite being set against inviting backdrops of aging villas and rolling countrysides, and being populated by charming locals, the story unfolds anticlimactically. The film starts off with a good premise, but takes entirely too long to get to the meat of the story, and while a film that promises romance should deliver on that concept, director Gary Winick fails to get the audience emotionally invested in the characters or their love lives. Sophie (Seyfried), a twentysomething fact checker for The New Yorker, and her restaurateur fianc?, Victor (Gael Garc?a Bernal), travels to Verona, Italy, for their "pre-wedding honeymoon," where she meets a group of volunteers who respond to letters written to Juliet seeking romantic advice. After unearthing a letter that had been lost for 50 years, Sophie responds, only to be stunned when its author, Claire (Vanessa Redgrave), arrives in Italy with uptight grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan), to find her long lost love, Lorenzo Bartolini (played by Redgrave's real-life husband, Franco Nero). Fascinated by Claire's quest, Sophie accompanies them on a trek through the hills of Tuscany, where adventure awaits them. The requisite hate-at-first-sight that transpires when Sophie meets Charlie, a cynic when it come to matters of the heart, truly rubs Sophie the wrong way, but also, as these stories go, turns her on; in theory this should make for a steamy romance, but in actuality it comes across as quite boring. Their chemistry seems to be lacking and, save for a single moonlight kiss on a grassy knoll, Seyfried and Egan's relationship falls flat. Still, between bright smiles and teary-eyed confessions, Amanda Seyfried is just darn likeable, and though her character lacks depth, the fact that she so strongly believes in true love is almost enough to make even the most hardened moviegoer want to believe. For all of its sticking points, the film is saved by a radiant Vanessa Redgrave, who gives a graceful and poignant performance as the elegant Claire looking for her Italian beau, and adds some much-needed romance to this romantic comedy. The audience really roots for her, and when she inevitably finds her Lorenzo, the moment is touching and worth the wait. For a movie so predictable, you would think that screenwriters Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan would come up with a new way to tell the same old story, but ultimately, while the concept of "true love" makes some roll their eyes, this film appeals to the hardcore believer. ~ Alaina O'Connor, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Ellen Barkin  Producer 
Ron Schmidt  Executive Producer 
Gary Winick  Director 
Mark Canton  Producer 
Andrea Guerra  Composer (Music Score) 
Tim Sullivan  Screenwriter 
Caroline Kaplan  Producer 
José Rivera  Screenwriter 
Amanda Seyfried  Actor 
Vanessa Redgrave  Actor 
Chris Egan  Actor 
Gael García Bernal  Actor 
Franco Nero  Actor 
Oliver Platt  Actor 
Marcia de Bonis  Actor 
Luisa Ranieri  Actor 
Marina Massironi  Actor 
Lydia Biondi  Actor 
Milena Vukotic  Actor 
Luisa de Santis  Actor 
Ashley Lilley  Actor 
Giordano Formenti  Actor 
Paolo Arvedi  Actor 
Remo Remotti  Actor 
Angelo Infanti  Actor 
Giacomo Piperno  Actor 
Fabio Testi  Actor 
Benito Deotto  Actor 
Sara Armentano  Actor 
Marcello Catania  Actor 
Silvana Bosi  Actor 
Elio Veller  Actor 
Sandro Dori  Actor 
Adriano Guerri  Actor 
Stefano Gerrino  Actor 
Daniel Baldock  Actor 
Dario Conti  Actor 
Ivana Lotito  Actor 
Antonio Randazzo  Actor 
Robbie Neigeborn  Actor 
Hilary Edson  Actor 

Country: USA