Holly Kennedy: "What if this is it, Gerry? What if this is all there is to our life? You have to have a plan. Why do I have to be the responsible grown up who worries? Why can't I be the cute, carefree Irish guy who sings all the time?" Gerry Kennedy: "Because you can't sing without making dogs bark?"

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P.S. I love you is a must see movie for anyone with an ounce of romance in their soul. It tells the story of how Holly (Hillary Swank) recovers from the sudden and untimely death her husband, the love of her life, a gregarious Irish minstrel by the name of Gerry (Gerard Butler).

The pair share an intense passion for one another. The depth of their love is borne out by the both the vindictiveness of the lover's quarrel that opens the movie and the speed and tenderness with which they realize their collective folly and make up.

Abruptly the story cuts to Gerry's wake, emphasizing the injustice of his untimely death and the shock that Holly has suffered. The trauma is so great that for a time she becomes a recluse in her apartment wrapping herself in the memories of her lost love. That is until the day of her 30th birthday when Gerry once more comes into her life in the form of letters and messages written before his death, to be delivered periodically, in an attempt to help his dearest work through her sorrow by performing tasks he set her, and by their completion, to learn to live without him in the manner she did while he was there - with joy in her soul.

And so she sets off, with her friends, on a series of adventures setup for her by her devilish Irish husband. Touching moments follow hilarious ones at equal measure until, inevitably, the letters run out and Holly must finally face severing her connection with the past.

This honest to god romantic flick is definitely one of my all time favorites. And thank Christ for that, because 2007 has to rate as one of the worst years in celluloid ever! This year, only one other movie fired my imagination: 300, that other Gerard Butler movie.

This is the story of a romance so deep and enduring that a man facing certain and agonizing death took the time from his own struggle to plan the means by which he could help the love of his life get over her own grief and move on. If the idea of that doesn't appeal to you, then you probably have a heart of pure lead.