Do you think such a young woman could really have been experiencing true love? How much change do you think is likely to occurred to these two individuals over half a decade of living? How much do you think they will have in common if they meet again?

Ĭlaire met the man of her dreams when she was only fifteen and hasn’t seen him in the last fifty years. Starring Amanda Seyfried, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave. Despite these bumps, the story offers the hope that love truly can survive, despite life’s many detours. These include frequent depictions of drinking (but never to drunkenness), an implied sexual relationship between the betrothed couple, portrayals of kissing, mild profanities and terms of deity used as expletives, as well as one crude sexual finger gesture. And there are only a few potholes to concern parents. While Letters to Juliet plays out exactly as expected, it is a pleasant journey across the beautiful countryside of Italy. Along the way Sophie starts questioning the strength of her own affection and how much she has in common with her fiancé. Excited about their quest, Sophie asks if she can join them.Īs the trio sets out on this scavenger hunt, they find different things than what they went looking for, like varying views on life, love, sorrow and unrequited dreams. Inspired by Sophie’s response, Claire has decided to search for her long lost “Romeo”, much to Charlie’s chagrin. The task becomes even more interesting when Sophie finds a fifty-year-old letter and is allowed to craft a reply to its author.Īlthough she speculates about what may have happened to this Claire Smith over the last half century, she is surprised when the now elderly woman (Vanessa Redgrave) shows up chauffeured by her grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan). Discovering each note is answered by a group of advice givers who call themselves Juliet’s secretaries, the young American asks if she can write a story about their job. In the process, romance blossoms in unexpected ways, eventually facing Sophia with the very advice she wrote in her letter to Claire.Because Sophie has secret dreams of being a journalist, the investigative reporter in her takes an interest in what happens to this correspondence.

With Victor wrapped up in his culinary quest, Sophia, Charlie and Claire scour the beautiful Italian countryside in search of Claire's long-lost love.

To Sophia's surprise, her letter inspires Claire, now a grandmother, to travel to Verona in search of her long-lost love - accompanied by her grandson Charlie. One such letter that Sophia responds to dates back to 1951 and came from one Claire Smith, an Englishwoman who fell in love with a young Italian man in her youth but let the opportunity slip away. But Victor is far more interested in finding suppliers for his future restaurant than in wooing Sophia, who ends up getting a vicarious romantic fix from an unlikely source she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters that pour into Verona from around the world - letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. When aspiring magazine writer Sophia Marcus and would-be restaurateur Victor fly from New York to Italy for a vacation, the stage seems set for some much-needed romance in their relationship - especially since their destination is the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo & Juliet fame.

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