Letters to Juliet is a nice visit to the cinema, and doubles as a great postcard from Italy. If I had an iPhone I would have booked my flights as the credits rolled. Well maybe after the film as people using their mobiles during movies is really annoying. But I digress...

So the story goes that Sophie (Seyfried) and her fiancé Victor (Bernal) take a pre-honeymoon trip to Italy so Victor can suss out produce for his new restaurant. Unfortunately for Sophie, the trip is more about the cheese and wine than about time together. While sightseeing Sophie finds the house where Juliet Capulet (of “Romeo and Juliet” fame) supposedly lived and watches as people write letters to Juliet about their loves. She meets ‘Juliet’s secretaries’ and ends up finding and responding to a letter from Claire, who in 1957 fell in love with Lorenzo Bartolini but, when asked to run away with him, she didn’t show up. The film then follows the journey of Sophie, Claire, and Claire’s grandson Charlie (Egan) in the search for Lorenzo.

I’m not going to tell you how it ends. I don’t need to – it’s a chick flick! That said, the film is charming, Vanessa Redgrave is awesome, and it may just help you remember your own love story or give you hope of a love story to come. What more reason do you need?