DVD
The Love Letter (1998)
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- Release date
- Oct 17, 2000
- Studio
- Hallmark
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Single disc (1 DVD-5)
included · Communication
The Love Letter
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?
Romance, Fantasy, TV Movie
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Communication.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Successive cross-era letters develop the romance and a foreknowledge-based attempt to prevent a Gettysburg death; the burning post office ends their link.
A modern man corresponds with a Civil War-era woman through an antique desk.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan43.4
Weighted archive score
Time-travel significance9/10
high confidence
Quality consensus6.9/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 51.16 base × 84.8% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Campbell Scott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Dukes, Estelle Parsons, Daphne Ashbrook
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