NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

BobbyT24 This is one of those stories that made me feel dirty watching it. Not because the subject matter was slightly perverse or startling. What I saw was a low-budget movie which never broke out of the low-budget feel. It just felt... cheap.Let's for a moment forget the fact the whole premise is a psychiatrist's worst nightmare - a person can't get over the death of their first love so let's replace that person with another (much younger) person who shares the same name and start an affair in the most awkward, look-away kind of way possible. Cougars have feelings too and I applaud anyone trying to give middle-aged woman an outlet. But why does a well-educated, attractive, intelligent divorcée think she needs to immediately "bed" (or "couch") the first incoming freshman that remotely hints at the fact she's hot? Laura Linney wearing a low-cut dress and leaning over to look at a couple slides would make any 18-year-old lose any inhibitions he would have. "Obvious" isn't the only word that springs to mind. But the way this came across was so desperate and off-the-wall it was off-putting. And the best friend on the phone... Wow, I could have put more emotion and believability into that character as a male and non-actor than that actress showed throughout the movie. The whole movie was screaming "exposition" before any real acting was taking place. People do not act or speak in real life the way they do throughout most of this movie. It was scripted and you could see/hear it over and over and over and.... Then there's the actual acting... It's billed (I believe) as somewhat of a romantic comedy. I didn't find anything romantic or funny about a near-middle-age ice queen dropping her panties for a cock-sure, jackass of a student who obviously only expected to get laid at every chance possible. At Columbia University no less. Yeah, that's what I expect when I think of the Ivy League - tenured professors ready to jump any quasi-interesting teenager at the drop of a name on an envelope. Teacher ethics mean nothing at one of our most prestigious and respected American universities I guess. You don't think an admissions officer would think twice about exchanging admission to THE IVY LEAGUE for sexual favors with a cute student??? I guess the job (or your entire education career no less) can't be that outstanding to throw it away for one very brief (and unfulfilling) affair with a student - who considers you a just "notch on his belt" anyway. Oh, yeah. That's a serious educator in my opinion... PUHHHH-leeez. Educated people are more subtle than that. Columbia deserved so much better than this.And the direction... Who funded this project, anyway? A hormone-enraged Columbia student with daddy's credit card and the hots for Laura Linney in various stages of undress??? That's what it feels like. The soundtrack came and went during the least opportune times. The editing during the phone conversations screamed "amateur" at all times. Everything seemed so scripted there was absolutely no believability to the situations. It was actors mouthing words off a page. I have seen less cardboard acting at grade school recitals about the four basic food groups. It literally felt like the writer/director was going one direction with the story, ran into a monkey wrench plot twist, and instead of naturally creating a solution, the writer/director just threw in the silliest, least inspired way to jump over the problem with a minor (re: unnecessary) character showing up out of nowhere to further the plot, then the minor character disappears until they are "magically" needed again to push our main characters along in their story to the inevitable end. Reality has no place in this script. Just "plot points". The audience needs more respect than that.Skip this movie. It really isn't worth your time. I rate it a 3 out of 10 because it shows Columbia University in beautiful lighting and I like Laura Linney and Topher Grace. Unfortunately, this wasn't close to their best efforts.

Desertman84 P.S. is a drama film directed by Dylan Kidd about a May-December romance turns metaphysical.The film stars Laura Linney and Topher Grace together with Gabriel Byrne,Marcia Gay Harden,Paul Rudd and Lois Smith.The screenplay by Kidd and Helen Schulman is based on Schulman's novel P.S. I Love You So Damn Much. Louise has a warm friendship with her ex-husband and a satisfying position as an admissions officer for Columbia University, but she's never gotten over losing her first love from high school. When a young man with the same name, face, and artistic talents as her lost love suddenly arrives for an admissions interview, Louise tumbles into an abrupt and questionable relationship.The movie is at its best when it follows the tics and foibles of human behavior; Linney and Grace both give vivid, lively performances. Both genders are programmed by eons of Darwinian genetic strategy, and so we believe them, and because Linney and Grace are sexy and play well together, the age gap is not a barrier so much as additional seasoning. Every time reincarnation rears its head, the movie flounders, particularly in clumsy scenes with Louise's predatory best friend, who stole Louise's boy so long ago. Fortunately, that element is almost a tacked-on subplot.Nevertheless,it takes something away from the movie.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Very similar to the back from the dead, through reincarnation, movie released around the same time "Birth" the made for TV movie "P.S" has to do with someone who died some twenty years ago coming back to re-start his love affair with not just one but two lovers. The strange thing about all this is that the long "dead person" now in his early twenties and a student at New York's Colombia University is, unlike in the movie "Birth", the very last person in the movie to figure this all out!It's chief of student admissions at Columbia Louise Harrington, Laura Linney, who first notices the what seems like re-born F. Scott Feinstadt, Topher Grace, when he called her for an interview to be accepted in the collage's prestigious art program. With her eyes bulging out of their sockets Louise realizes that Scott is the carbon-copy of her long dead lover from high-school who shares the very same name, first & last, with him. Poor and totally confused Scott who's only looking to get accepted in the collage's art class ends up being seduced and ravaged, which in fact he's anything but against, by the sex starved Louise within hours after his interview with her!To make things even more interesting we also have Louise's ex-husband Peter, Gabriel Byrne, pop up and after thinking things over with her suddenly admits that he's been having an affair behind her back! This with Peter being divorced from Louise and thus being free do do, in regards with his sex life, anything he want's! The real kicker to Peter's heart felt confession to Louise is that he's hopelessly addicted to sex and had been having hundreds of affairs while he was still married to her with, in him being a collage professor, his both female as well as male student's! Shocked at Peter's infidelity Louise is left speechless and thus gravities back to Scott, who hasn't a clue to what's going on, to continue her hot and heavy affair with him.Things reach explosive levels in the movie when Louise's friend from high-school and rival for the late Scott's affections Missy Goldberg, Marcia Gay Barden, gets in touch with her and tells a stunned Louise that she in fact knows that Scott as come back from the dead and has also, like Louise, restarted her affair with him! On top of all that sex addicted Peter also finds out that Louise, who's not married to him, is having an affair with another man-Scott-which almost leads the two to square off at each other!***SPOILERS*** The ending of this very confusing movie leaves a lot of loose ends in regards to Scott's relationship with both Lousie and Missy but by then you've been through so many sub-plots to what it's, the Scott Louise & Missy connection, all about that both you and Scott are by then ready to forget about the whole damn thing! About the best thing that happens in the movie is in the end is that Scott is finally accepted into Colombia University's exclusive art school, which is all that he wanted in the first place, on the strength of what looked like six grainy and out of focus slides of his art works. But as we see Scott wouldn't have made it without Louise, who's still hopefully infatuated with the young man, pulling a few strings in his favor.

mehunterbtown OK, my husband and I sighed and turned this movie off maybe halfway through, so I may not be really qualified to review it. Still, that action may speak for itself. I would just like to know: What is it that makes Hollywood think we all want to watch movies about older women making it -- er, having relationships -- with younger men? I guess since American Beauty won its Oscar for a middle-aged man trying to pork his daughter's best friend, movie makers think they can make a go of it with the genders turned around, despite the warnings of Oedipus (or maybe BECAUSE of the warnings of Oedipus, I don't know.) But it failed in That Evening Star. It failed in In Love And War, despite the extreme circumstances and only 6 years age difference. I couldn't buy it between Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg in Prime. And now Laura Linney and Topher Grace can't make it work either. It's just, well, how do I put this? . . . Off-putting. Disturbing. Repulsive. Gross. All this despite the so-called "redemption" and the swell of happy music just before credits roll. Such relationships don't have a chance -- not in real life, and not in the movies. I don't care HOW "hot" the woman looks. (And yes, I'm a middle-aged woman.) So come on, Hollywood. Give us a break, and reach somewhere else for your different kicks. This avenue should stay off-limits.