P.S., I Love You (Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Kathy Bates, Lisa Kudrow, Harry Connick, Jr.) – There are “chick flicks” and there are romantic comedies. This, unfortunately, is the first one. It’s pretty formulaic: boy meets girl, girl loses boy (in this case, to death), girl goes into personal funk; she finds clarity (think Ghost). It’s amusing and a tear-jerker. It’s fun and overwrought. Now, the story: Holly (Swank) is married to Gerry (Butler), an Irishman who drives a limo when he’s not singing his music. He’s madly in love; she is, too, but essentially unhappy that her life isn’t progressing perfectly since they have small apartment and can’t find a job she likes. Gerry dies of a brain tumor – the suffering of which we are spared – but leaves her with a series of letters spaced out over many months to help her get on with her life. She lives for the letters but develops few other relationships (except for a platonic one with an odd character played by Harry Connick, Jr.) and even ignores her friends and her mother (Bates). So she doesn’t move on until she gets the last letter. That revelation effectively ends the movie, and all I can say is thank goodness. I promise that, if you like chick flicks, you will love this. And if you don’t, you’ll want to leave an hour into it.