20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.
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Title: The Love Letter (TV Movie 1998)
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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:
USALanguage:
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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The scene where Scott shows Lizzie's poem to a modern-day poet was filmed in the William Smith Morton Library on the grounds of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Va. See more »Goofs
The antique desk was transported by Scottie to his home upside down on top of his SUV. However, when the secret compartment was first opened, the pen and the ink bottle were perfectly in place, and they evidently had not bounced around at all in transit or they surely would have been heard rattling around. 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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This is a lovely movie -- the story is well-thought and although it seems tortuous, they pull it off nicely and make it entirely believable. I very much enjoy Leigh and Scott together. I've seen it several times already, and will continue to see it over and over.