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First Look: P.S.
Release Date: October 15, 2004
Distributor: Newmarket Films
Director: Dylan Kidd
Screenwriter: Dylan Kidd
Cast: Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Gabriel Byrne,
Marcia Gay Harden, & Paul Rudd
Confirming the extraordinary promise of his debut, Dylan Kidd’s
P.S. is a film as disarmingly lovely and romantic as Roger Dodger
was acerbic and cutting.
Louise Harrington (Laura Linney), a divorced, thirty-something
admission’s office at Columbia University’s School
of Fine Arts is intelligent, pretty, successful, and.unfulfilled.
That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk
and she arranges to interview the young painter. When Scott Feinstadt
(Topher Grace) appears, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Louise’s
high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in
a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the interview,
Louise and Scott have embarked on a passionately uninhibited older
woman/younger man affair. But is Scott just a reminder of Louise’s
lost love? And is Scott just trying to wheedle his way into the
Ivy League?
Adding to the romantic complications is competition from Louise’s
best friend from high school, Missy (Marcia Gay Harden), who shows
up to claim the affections of the boy; Louise's co-dependent ex-husband
Peter (Gabriel Byrne); her cynical mother (Lois Smith) and fresh-out-of-rehab
brother (Paul Rudd).
Torrid and tender, serious and sexy, P.S. features a career performance
from Laura Linney (Mystic River, You Can Count On Me) and a breakthrough
leading man turn for Topher Grace (Traffic, That 70’s Show).
P.S., based on Helen Schulman's novel of the same name, shot entirely
in New York City, is a romantic fable about getting a second chance
at first love.
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