Why is message in a bottle rated pg 13

Robin Wright Penn, Kevin Costner and Paul Newman star in this drama about a woman's search for the writer of a love letter she accidentally found in a floating bottle. A woman takes her pants off and we see a bit of her underwear.

We see an extended scene of a man and woman kissing and moving in bed we only see their faces and the upper part of their bare backs. Two people drown, but nothing graphic is seen. Be aware that while we do our best to avoid spoilers it is impossible to disguise all details and some may reveal crucial plot elements. Charlie has the bottle, the cork, the stationery and the handwriting analyzed, and figures the messages came from the Carolinas.

A few calls to gift shops, and they know who bought the stationery. It's Garret Blake Kevin Costner. Theresa is sent out on a mission to do research about him. She meets his father Newman , and then the man himself, a shipwright who hand-crafts beautiful vessels. He takes her for a test sail.

The wind is bracing and the chemistry is right. I make a perfect steak. It's the best thing I do. Soon it's time for Theresa to return home where after she writes one column, the paper promotes her and gives her an office with a window view; at that rate, in six weeks she'll be using Col.

McCormick's ancestral commode. Of course she wants him to come and see her--to see how she lives. His reply does not represent the proudest moment of the screenwriter: "You mean, inland? That his secrets are known in those few places where the Tribune is still read. Yes, but it takes a long time, and when his discovery finally comes, the film handles it with a certain tact. It's not just an explosion about betrayal, but more complicated--partly because of the nature of the third letter.

Spoiler: It's a bit of a stretch that Garret's dying wife coincidentally hit on the idea of writing a note in a bottle to him on the same typewriter and stationery he was using, especially since she presumably didn't know about the first two notes. As morose and contrived as the movie is, it has a certain winsome charm because of the personal warmth of the actors.

This is Robin Wright Penn 's breakthrough to a different kind of acting, and she has a personal triumph; she's been identified with desperate, hard-as-nails characters, but no more. Costner finds the right note of inarticulate pain; he loves, but doesn't feel he has the right to.

Trivia The sites that were finally chosen for most of the shooting of the scenes of Garret's hometown were Northport and Popham Beach, Maine. At the end of filming the owner of the house demanded that it be returned to its original state costing the production company nearly as much to undo. Goofs In his final letter to Catherine, Garret writes that he regrets watching Theresa get into a plane and fly away, but when she left him she drove away in a rental car the airport scene was deleted.

Quotes [last lines] Theresa Osborne : If some lives form a perfect circle, others take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. User reviews Review. Top review. A romantic offering with appeal to women. How private is a message set afloat in a bottle? Not at all, according to this film. Finders keepers, and if it makes a good story, publish it on the front page of the daily press. Garret Kevin Costner loves Catherine beyond the grave, and being a boat-builder, with the sea at his doorstep, he sends messages to her in a sealed bottle.

Theresa Robin Wright Penn relaxing by the sea finds a bottle protruding from the wet sand and is much impressed by the expressions of love in the romantic message. As a newspaper researcher she seeks out the author and predictably they fall in love. I think this film would largely appeal to women. The dialogue and the romantic situations are believable as the story slowly but steadily unfolds. The photography of the seascapes and sunsets is very appealing and the background music suitably romantic and never obtrusive.

The acting throughout is very controlled. The shy Garret devoted to the memory of Catherine slowly changes as this new woman enters his life. Theresa still suffering from a broken marriage and still uncertain of her future is beautifully played as the message continues to weave its spell.

Garret's crotchety old father is played with all stops out by Paul Newman - a rascally fellow with firm ideas about what is good for his son. There are a few noisy scenes in the film, and necessary, I think, because the overall tenor of the film is somewhat subdued with the two shy central characters. Not a great film by any means , but the story has a certain charm.

I am sure we would all like to find a message in a bottle - much more exciting than receiving an E-mail - and I guaratee that, human nature being what it is, we'd read it too. Details Edit. Release date February 12, United States. United States. Warner Bros. Portland, Maine, USA.