"Letters to Juliet"

"Letters to Juliet" starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave was our date night DVD choice for Friday night and it was a good one! This was a movie I had hoped to see while it was in the theater but I missed it.

Sophie (played by Amanda Seyfried), a fact checker who is also an aspiring writer, travels to Verona, Italy, for a "working" vacation with her fiance who is opening a restaurant soon in New York. However, the romantic vacation she'd envisioned for the two of them turns out to be less fun for her as he is off to visit vineyards and restaurants and she is bored. She decides to do some sightseeing on her own while he's working and discovers a 50-year-old letter written by Claire (played by Vanessa Redgrave)to her then Italian boyfriend. When Sophie responds to the letter, she meets Claire who has traveled to Italy with her grandson and the three of them embark on a journey to find Claire's lost love. What they find along the way is unexpected and magical -- a fun, romantic comedy that I highly recommend.

We also watched the special features and learned that this movie is based on factual events which I found very interesting. There really are women who leave letters for Juliet as well as a group of women who respond to these letters -- the secretaries of Juliet.
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P.S. The scenery -- and music -- are beautiful.