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Synopsis: When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it's not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): David Frankel
Production: New Line Cinema
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
23
Rotten Tomatoes:
14%
PG-13
Year:
2016
97 min
$30,982,955
13,020 Views


CLAIRE:
Letters? What kind of letters?

SALLY:
This might be the strangest thing

I have ever come across.

- You got the letters?

- Oh, yeah.

SIMON:
Can we ask you how?

Cost me $800

to get this cut.

And just so you know,

it's a federal offense

to steal mail directly from a mailbox.

- You could...

- Yeah.

- So, three letters.

- Who are they to?

- Oh, not who.

- What do you mean?

Howard doesn't write letters to people.

He writes to things.

- WHIT:
What kind of things?

- Time.

Love.

Death.

The three abstractions.

CLAIRE:
"Time,

"they say you heal all wounds,

"but they don't talk about how you destroy

"all that's good in the world.

"How you turn beauty into ash.

"Well, you're nothing more

than petrified wood to me.

"You're a dead tissue

that won't decompose.

"You're nothing."

That doesn't prove anything.

We can't use that, right?

No. I mean,

kids write letters to Santa Claus,

it doesn't mean they're crazy.

No. This is therapeutic.

It's so sad.

Yeah. Anything else?

Usually after work,

he goes to a small dog park in Brooklyn,

even though he doesn't own a dog.

Just sits there for hours.

Does he write letters to the dogs?

Are you serious?

Well, that would be

like the home run, right?

I mean, that's what we need.

- Does he?

- Not that I saw.

- Okay. What else?

- That's it, really.

Goes home to his apartment.

Rarely leaves before morning.

No Wi-Fi, cable, phone. Nothing.

"You're a dead tissue

that won't decompose."

(HORNS HONKING)

(SIREN WAILING)

Howard?

Hey, it's Claire.

I swung by that place down the street

and got you some dinner.

It's that shrimp thing you like.

Okay, I'm gonna leave it right here,

in case you haven't eaten.

Hey, don't keep leaving the food there.

He doesn't eat it.

Oh, I'm... I'm sorry.

And he's late on his rent again.

He doesn't answer his door,

and I don't have a working number for him.

Yeah, he doesn't have a phone anymore.

(SIGHS) Um, how much does he owe?

I'll write you a check.

SUPER:
If that's what you want to do.

And, uh, if you're not doing anything

with that shrimp...

Broccoli rabe last week was delicious.

(HORN HONKING)

(HORN HONKING)

(FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

Here he is.

Hey, where's your stuff?

I wanted to text you,

but Mom said I had to call.

Text me about what?

But then Barry said

I had to tell you in person.

Are we taking life advice from Barry now?

What are...

What are you trying to tell me?

I'm not coming to stay with you.

I'm going with Barry and Mom

to the Bahamas.

No, no. Wait, wait, wait.

Hi.

How you doing?

Can I get, like, five minutes,

maybe a couple feet

just to have this conversation

with my daughter?

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Allan Loeb

Allan Loeb (born July 25, 1969) is an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He wrote the 2007 film Things We Lost in the Fire and created the 2008 television series New Amsterdam. He wrote the film drama 21, which also was released in 2008. Among his other credits, he wrote and produced The Switch (2010). He also co-wrote Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and wrote The Dilemma (2011), and Just Go with It (2011). He performed a rewrite for the musical Rock of Ages (2012), and the mixed martial arts comedy Here Comes the Boom (2012). more…

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