spilt popcorn, cherry coke, 2 wet napkins and p.s. i love you

mix this punch with me for a second, kids:
1/2 cup gerard butler
1/3 cup of denny duq...i mean, jeffrey dean morgan
3/4 cup of hilary swank
sprinkle of kathy bates
dash of lisa kudrow
pinches of sex, death and irish accents

what does that spell?

a mother-effin', tear jerker.

i don't think i have cried that much at a movie since the sci-fi-religious robin williams/anabella sciorra piece what dreams may come which grazed the box office in 1998.

seriously. romantic tragicomedy is so not what i needed last night, but i did it anyway because i've already seen juno twice, and i couldn't bring myself to spend another $11.75 on it (even though it is totally worth it) and i was already at the movie theatre. i had arrived with the full intention of seeing oscar contender no country for old men, but when i got there ... i opted instead for the completely un-nominated p.s. i love you, starring hilary swank, who i will plainly state was not made for romantic tragicomedies.

i'm going to go out a limb here and say the book is probably better than the movie was. and sure 1/2 of my brain & heart completely succumbed to the joy & tears of the unbelievably predictable romantic tragicomedy script. but at the end, my eyes were puffy, i was still single and i didn't have any irish men holding my hand.

damn you, tragicomedies!

here's what i did like ... and you other theatre enthusiasts will appreciate this:
-susan blackwell, 1/4 of the genius behind [title of show] in a delicious 2 minute scene about an apartment. favorite quote: "i am NOT living in BROOKLYN."
-sherie rene scott, tony nominee and star of aida and dirty rotten scoundrels and currently ursula in the little mermaid as a teary travel agent for 6.2 seconds.
-nellie mckay, recently in the useless revival of threepenny opera as hilary swank's eccentric sister. (did you know she's only 23????)

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p.s. i love you
directed by richard lagravenese
starring hilary swank, gerard butler,
harry connick jr., jeffrey dean morgan,
kathy bates and lisa kudrow