P.S. I Love You is a 2007 blockbuster
directed by Richard LaGravenese. It is based on the best
selling novel by Cecelia Ahern. Academy Award Winner
Hilary Swank plays the lead role as Holly Kennedy who
has been left a series of letters by her late husband
Gerry, played by Gerard Butler. Starring alongside them
are actors Kathy Bates, Lisa Kudrow and Harry Connick
Jr.
Plot
Holly Kennedy is beautiful, smart and married to the
love of her life - a passionate, funny, and impetuous
Irishman named Gerry. So when Gerry's life is taken by
an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one
who can help her is the person who is no longer there.
Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good
thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote
Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only
through her grief, but also in rediscovering herself.
The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in
the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape
recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get
out and "celebrate her". In the weeks and months that
follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in
surprising ways
Locations
The movie itself is set in New York, however after one
of the letters turns out to be a surprise trip to
Ireland they find themselves trekking along the Wicklow
Mountains. The scene where Holly and Gerry first meet is
at the Sally Gap. While they walk together to find ‘Dun
Laoghaire’ they are in fact in the beautiful village of
Lacken, overlooking the Blessington lakes.
The pub scenes in which they are singing and dancing at
a bar were filmed at Whelan’s pub, on Wexford Street, in
Dublin.
