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Message in a Bottle
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4308
- IMDb #4012
- Google retired #2526
- Rotten Tomatoes #3791
- Metacritic #3920
- Letterboxd #4164
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4650
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2900
- Metacritic Critics #4278
- Metacritic Audience #2945
- Criticker #3472
- Kinopoisk #1129
- AlloCiné #3854
- Trakt #3628
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 30, highest is Google on 82. Critics average 36, everyone else 63.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Chicago newspaper researcher discovers a heartfelt, anonymous love letter sealed in a bottle that has washed ashore. Captivated by its poetic passion, she embarks on a quest to find the author. Her search leads her to a solitary shipwright in North Carolina, a widower still grieving the loss of his wife, and she finds herself falling for him while keeping her initial motive a secret.
Details
- Director
- Luis Mandoki
- Writer
- Gerald Di Pego
- Based on
- Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
- Released
- 22 February 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $80.0M
- Box office
- $118.9M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 6 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000 | Favorite Actor - Drama/Romance | Kevin Costner | Nominee |
| Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000 | Favorite Actress - Drama/Romance | Robin Wright | Nominee |
| Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000 | Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama/Romance | Paul Newman | Nominee |
| Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000 | Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama/Romance | Illeana Douglas | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2000 | Worst Actor | Kevin Costner | Nominee |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1999 | Worst Actor | Kevin Costner | Nominee |
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6 awards — Message in a Bottle
×| Favorite Actor - Drama/Romance | Kevin Costner | Nominee |
| Favorite Actress - Drama/Romance | Robin Wright | Nominee |
| Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama/Romance | Paul Newman | Nominee |
| Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama/Romance | Illeana Douglas | Nominee |
| Worst Actor | Kevin Costner | Nominee |
| Worst Actor | Kevin Costner | Nominee |