The Love Letter
1998 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 2,531 VOTES · DIR. Dan Curtis
Overview
20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?
Dialogue Timeline — 873 lines
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00:00:35 Perfect.
00:06:21 and I am at last free to speak to you.
00:09:10 Let's see now. Yeah, oh yeah, here it is.
00:13:23 So, I just answered it.
00:15:55 I really need to know something: Do you think this is going to work?
00:21:33 Yes, Mr. Reagle?
00:27:42 I wonder if I place the second letter
00:31:08 have been, for whatever reason, temporarily suspended.
00:33:29 Mother, you're the one that talked me into this insanity in the first place.
00:37:17 - Good Morning. - You again.
00:39:47 I found a letter that she wrote, in an old desk, probably from here.
00:44:16 I want you to look as if you are about to walk into my arms.
00:46:28 to take me seriously.
00:49:05 more energy into Elizabeth Whitcomb than you are into our wedding plans.
00:54:51 Miss Whitcomb, follow me.
00:58:21 Dearest Scotty, I despair at ever hearing from you again.
01:03:00 ...I am powerfully drawn to him and he, it appears
01:08:51 Your father's told him you'd be right down.
01:11:59 Yeah.
01:15:56 The horses are goin' as fast as they can, Ma’am.
01:22:37 You do still want to marry her, don't you?
01:27:50 you have returned to me something I thought I had lost:
01:32:45 Yes, Ma’am
01:38:34 Poems by Elizabeth Whitcomb, edited by Scott Corrigan.