Letters to Juliet

Movies like this must appeal to someone … but how? Letters to Juliet isn’t just stupid; it’s a movie that moves in a straight line from a predictable beginning to a predictable ending. Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!, Dear John) stars as Sophie in this sun-soaked romantic dramedy. While visiting romantic Verona, Italy, she discovers a local custom that involves women writing letters, seeking romantic intervention, to Shakespeare’s Juliet. Quaint. Sophie stumbles onto a hidden 50-year-old letter written by Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) as a teenager. Sophie writes Claire back; apparently, she was easy to track down after all these years. Naturally, Claire has to put her life on hold to travel to Italy over a schoolgirl crush. Oh, and Claire just so happens to have a grandson. Do you think, maybe, that he and Sophie might … nah, that’s too easy, right?