Message in a Bottle (1999) on Netflix
Theresa Osborne, a Chicago Tribune researcher, finds a typed love letter in a bottle on a Cape Cod beach. She seeks its author, Garrett Blake, a widowed shipbuilder on the Outer Banks.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.3/1042,788 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes32%
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Plot summary
Who meets by Fate, shall be sealed by Fate. Theresa Osborne is running along the beach when she stumbles upon a bottle washed up on the shore. Inside is a message, reading the letter she feels so moved and yet she felt as if she has violated someone's thoughts. In love with a man she has never met, Theresa tracks down the author of the letter to a small town in Wilmington, two lovers with crossed paths. But yet one can't let go of their past.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Message in a Bottle (1999)
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- The producers originally planned to film in Tangier, Virginia, but the Tangier town council voted against allowing it because of the drinking, swearing and sex in the script.
- Warner Bros. tried Chilmark, on Martha's Vineyard, but the Chilmark Conservation Commission turned down a request to build a temporary 3,000 square foot house on stilts in the dunes near Chilmark Pond.
- Despite poor reviews the film opened at number one with $18.9 million, knocking Payback from the top spot, and went on to gross $52.9 million in North America and $66.0 million elsewhere for a worldwide total of $118.9 million.
- No filming was done at the Outer Banks, the setting of the novel; the beach scenes were shot instead at Popham Beach in Phippsburg, Maine.
- The Irish music group Clannad wrote the song What Will I Do for the film, and the singer Richard Marx composed One More Time, sung by Laura Pausini, which plays during the closing credits.
