
If you knew your life was ending, would you think up a way to help your spouse/significant other move on? In P.S. I Love You, Jerry Kennedy (
Gerard Butler) knows he’s going to die and concocts a plan to help his wife Holly (Swank) make it through the grieving process and start over without him.
Holly and Jerry have verbal battles over children and shopping and sex and future plans – the same things a lot of married couples spar over from time to time. Jerry wants more ‘hot, nasty sex;’ Holly wants Jerry to get serious about work. Holly’s intelligent and serious; Jerry’s a fun-loving Irish hunk with a wicked sense of humor. Despite the occasional bad moments and their clashing personalities, their marriage is a strong one.
But the Kennedys aren’t given a ‘happily ever after’ ending to their relationship. Jerry succumbs to an illness and Holly’s left to handle life without her best friend. Depressed, Holly becomes a hermit in the home she shared with Jerry. She withdraws from her friends Denise (Lisa Kudrow) and Sharon (Gina Gershon) and won’t respond to phone calls from her concerned mom, Patricia (Kathy Bates). Holly’s miserable and inconsolable – basically a horrible mess who’s resorted to watching old Judy Garland movies and going without bathing.
Jerry apparently knew his Holly well, and understood how she’d withdraw from life after his death. In order to set her on the right track, he penned a series of 12 letters to be delivered on specific dates after he died. Jerry's letters from the grave, each ending with 'P.S. I Love You', contain very specific instructions on how Holly should plug herself back into life. Dress up, party, sing, visit Ireland, pursue her artistic ambitions, love again…the letters do their job of pushing her ever so gently into overcoming her grief and moving on without the man who made her laugh.
I give the movie a 15 out of 10. =)
P/s- I cried during the movie.
P/P/s- He is still all that i think about. :s