Letters to Juliet (2010) on Netflix
PG20101h 45mComedyDramaRomance
Sophie, a fact checker, joins the Secretaries of Juliet in Verona, the women who answer letters left for Juliet. A letter from Claire, written in 1957, went unanswered, and Sophie replies.
- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb6.5/10115,669 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes43%
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Plot summary
Sophie is a fact checker for The New Yorker who travels to Verona, Italy, on a pre-honeymoon with her fiancé Victor, a chef preparing to open his own restaurant. Victor spends the trip researching food and leaves Sophie to sightsee on her own. In Juliet's courtyard she learns that women from around the world leave letters to Juliet there and that a group called the Secretaries of Juliet collects and answers them. Sophie finds a letter written in 1957 by Claire Smith, who asked Juliet for guidance about a boy named Lorenzo Bartolini, and writes a reply. Claire, now elderly and widowed, arrives in Verona with her grandson Charlie, and the three set out to look for the Lorenzo of the letter, a search Sophie hopes will help her own writing.
Cast
- Paolo Arvedias Signor Ricci (Olive Farmer)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Letters to Juliet (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Nero is Redgrave's real-life husband. Roger Ebert, who interviewed them on the set of Camelot in 1966, where they met, fell in love, separated, then married 40 years later, noted how nearly autobiographical the love story between their characters is.
- The idea for the film came from the 2006 non-fiction book Letters to Juliet by Lise Eve Friedman and Ceil Jann Friedman, which chronicles the real phenomenon of letter-writing to Shakespeare's most famous romantic character.
- Letters to Juliet turned out to be the final film of its director, Gary Winick, who died on February 27, 2011.
