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Cast
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| Campbell Scott | ... | Scott Corrigan | |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | ... | Elizabeth Whitcomb | |
| David Dukes | ... | Everett Reagle | |
| Estelle Parsons | ... | Beatrice Corrigan | |
| Daphne Ashbrook | ... | Debra Zabriskie | |
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Myra Carter | ... | Clarice Whitcomb |
| Gerrit Graham | ... | Warren Whitcomb | |
| Irma P. Hall | ... | Mae Mullen | |
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Richard Woods | ... | Jacob Campbell |
| Kali Rocha | ... | Flossy Whitcomb | |
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Laurie Kennedy | ... | Lavinia Whitcomb |
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Edgar Smith | ... | Potts the Postman |
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Cara Stoner | ... | Maggie the Maid |
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George Gaffney | ... | Bike Rider |
| Tom Riis Farrell | ... | Scott's Boss | |
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Scotty Corrigan buys an antique desk and finds a Civil War-era letter inside it, written by a woman who died over a hundred years ago. Fancifully, he writes and mails a reply...only to have it reach its destination in the past. As Elizabeth and Scotty continue their remarkable correspondence, they find themselves falling in love, and more than restless about their impending, respective, marriages. Written by Kathy Li
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
1 February 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Love Letter (#47.3) See more »Company Credits
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Actor Csmpbell Scott comes from actor parents George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. See more »Goofs
In the video game Scottie is working on, General Stuart (as in JEB) is misspelled as Stewart. See more »Quotes
Elizabeth Whitcomb: The hard truth is we are doomed to be chaste. To never touch each other, hear each other, see each other... so what harm can there be to write to each other?See more »
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Unknown in Europe, this movie was recommended by someone from the States and I certainly wasn't disappointed once I'd received the DVD and watched it! On a par with "Somewhere in Time" and similar in some respects to "A Message from Charity" which was one of the "New Twilight Zone" episodes, this film is beautifully made and a real pleasure to watch over and over again. In fact nowadays, many of these so-called "TV Movies" are actually better than those made for the cinema !!
Plots in time-travel movies cannot of course be logical but this film had a very reasonable and believable plot ( bar, of course the way the letters were supposed to travel in time ) but when you watch films of this nature, there is no point in worrying about details of that kind.
The sets and picture quality were magnificent and I found the ending totally satisfactory although I would have perhaps wished the movie to continue on so that we see romance developing between Campbell Scott and the lady in the cemetery. I had already seen Campbell Scott in a film called 'Dying Young ' and do like this actor very much. This film was just suited to me as I don't really like time-travel movies with tons of special effects as they dont really appear believable ! So I hope people will make more movies like this because at present it is true that they are rather thin on the ground. And we do need doses of romantic fantasy to whisk us out and above of the dreariness of modern life !!