Letters To Juliet (2010)

Sophie Hall (Amanda Seyfried) is a fact checker at the "New Yorker" magazine and wants to be a writer. Her boss Bobby thinks that she should stay a fact checker. She is engaged to Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal) who is opening a new Italian restaurant in the next few weeks. The two decide to go on a "pre-honeymoon" since things will get crazy when they get back and the restaurant will be opening.

When they get there, all Victor wants to do is tour wineries and the inventories of his suppliers. Sophie goes along with this for a while, but soon can't take it any more. While Victor goes on one of his tours, Sophie explores the town of Verona where they are staying. Verona is also the town where Romeo and Juliet lived. She locates the house that Juliet supposedly lived and finds people writing letters about their love lives and sticking them to the wall of the house. At the end of the day, a woman comes and removes all of the letters. Sophie follows and finds that there is a group of women that respond to the letters and send them back to the writers. They are known as "Juliet's Secretaries".

Sophie befriends these women and finds a letter written by a woman way back in 1957 when she was studying art in Italy. Sophie responds and is surprised when this woman's grandson shows up asking her what the heck she is doing writing to his Grandmother. She meets Claire (Vanessa Redgrave), the writer of the letter who decides that she wants to try to find her old love, Lorenzo Bartolini (Franco Nero), that she left waiting for her when she went back to England.

Sophie decides to join them, much to the chagrin of Claire's grandson Charlie (Chris Egan). They find that there are many Lorenzo's and decide to check out as many of them as possible.

I won't reveal the outcome. Let's just say that this movie is an enjoyable chick flick. I left the theater feeling happy. Yay! It's not great, but entertaining. Isn't that the point? Hey, I just watched the trailer and it made me smile!

The shots in Italy were incredible, it is definitely on my list of places to go! Vanessa Redgrave is married in real life to Franco Nero, her Lorenzo in the movie. She met him while filming "Camelot" in 1967 and had a son with him, but did not marry him until 2006. She had a long relationship with Timothy Dalton in between.

105 Minutes. Rated PG. I give this movie THREE AND ONE HALF STARS.