This film requires you to accept that letters can move through time.If you will just accept this and your romantic,you like New England in autumn then just sit back and enjoy. The male lead is already engaged at the start but in the correspondence crossings back over 130 years he sees that there is something missing which is the same that his correspondent yearns for.The correspondence is started by his encountering a secret letter written in 1863 put in a bureau he bought which once belonged to a 29 year old lady who wrote the letter and hid it dreaming of a lover she longed to exist and come into her life.He replies using contemporary writing paper,ink and stamps the post box being a long surviving one.The letter reaches the writer who following the shock replies by leaving replies in the drawer.Falling in love he encourages her to continue her poetry.The story involves tragedy in the civil war but in the end the ending is in the present.Watchers may miss the last words with the music but it only confirms the situation.Now where can I find a bureau such as the one used. The scenes are brilliantly dove tailed,the screenplay writer did a brilliant job and must have taken a lot of care with this short story by Jack Finney.
Nicholas Morrison
Nicholas Morrison