The Love Letter

(DreamWorks)

Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw) finds the unaddressed, unsigned title missive between her sofa cushions and suddenly Loblolly-by-the-Sea (actually a generic Rockport) sprouts potential soulmates. Could the sender be summer temp Johnny (Tom Everett Scott)? How about stodgy old local fireman George (Tom Selleck)? Peter Ho-Sun Chan's saltwater candy of a romance is very much a love letter from Capshaw, who produced, to herself, yet its crotchety performances and goofball dialogue prevail over the schmaltz.