I Love You is an old fashioned sentimental Hollywood romantic comedy. It's like a good trashy summer beach book, decent enough to engage until the end, but as cheesy as it is charming.
This sweet little film will make you laugh and cry, but once it's over you'll feel a bit of a fool. Unashamedly a chick flick, PS: I Love You is based on the novel by Irish author Cecelia Ahern. Director Richard LaGravenese has shifted the story from Ireland to the United States, making the lead Holly Kennedy, played by Hilary Swank, American, but retains husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) as Irish.
Holly deals with the death of her husband of 10 years by holing up in her apartment watching old movies, ignoring her friends Denise (Kudrow) and Sharon (Gershon), her mother Patricia (Kathy Bates) and her sister Rose (Nellie McKay).
On her 30th birthday, she receives a posthumous package that contains a recorded message from her dead husband, telling her to get out and celebrate her birthday. This is the first of 10 letters Gerry prepared for Holly to help her get on with her life and find herself.
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