The Book of Love

2016

Action / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 64% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 5009 5K

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Plot summary

After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.

Director

Bill Purple Photo
Bill Purple

Top cast

Maisie Williams Photo
Maisie Williams as Millie
Jessica Biel Photo
Jessica Biel as Penny Herschel
Paul Reiser Photo
Paul Reiser as Wendell
Orlando Jones Photo
Orlando Jones as Dumbass
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1 hr 46 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by slightlymad22 7 / 10

Great Performances From Two Leads

I stumbled across this charming little movie last night.Plot sin A Paragraph: Henry (Jason Sudiekis) an introverted architect. Who is grieving the death of his wife in a car accident, sets out to help Millie (Maisie Williams), a homeless teen, who has plans for an ambitious project.I didn't know anything about this movie, and had never heard anything about it. It was starting on TV and in the absence of anything else to watch, I gave it a go, based on the fact that I think Sudiekis can be funny in the right role, and I love Maisie Williams in Game Of Thrones, and Cyberbully (a movie I feel should be shown in every school) It's a wonderfully charming movie, that had me welling up. It's a well told, well acted movie that hits all the right spots and has a nice score too!! Both lead actors are heartbreaking!! It just goes to show that you don't need a remake, a franchise, huge budget or loads of special effects!! An interesting story with great performances are all that is needed to make a good movie. It's a shame the movie only got a small release with no promotion, and nobody seen it.
Reviewed by jrarichards 6 / 10

Not quite sure what this is, though the main pairing is interesting...

If I needed something to help me get over a tragic event, or wanted to help out a troubled young person, I could take a load of old planks and furniture and bits of my house and make a ladder that stretches up to the moon, and that would be justified by the nobility of the quest, right?And of course it could be done without anybody taking notice or raising the alarm, without the intervention of the police or other authorities and so on.And I could eventually climb my moon ladder with my young companion and never be seen again...In "Book of Love" or whatever else this film from Bill Purple calls itself, the central premise is scarcely less ludicrous than this, and it does involve a bereaved widower (played by Jason Sudeikis) and a troubled teenager (played by Maisie Williams - for whom a worthwhile vehicle was presumably needed, content not especially important).The wife livelier and lovelier than her husband is played by Jessica Biel, but she sadly dies before the real madness kicks in, though of course she is one of the reasons behind it.Ultimately, the Sudeikis-Williams pairing is reasonably persuasive, and both have a pretty good crack at a New Orleans accent, the challenge of that being all the greater for the young British actress.So this film has its value (and one or two clever and touching plot twists not to be revealed here in any way), but it's also a bit on the WEEEIIIIRRRRD side, to be honest. So the basic question remains, why maroon good actors acting reasonably well on a raft of implausibility? The plot actually thickens a bit further given that New Orleans was ready to fund this film, even though the portrayal of the city still evidently reeling a bit from Katrina is not too positive. Admittedly, there is an eco-message there about not developing the area's remaining marshes, and that is wise enough given the way the hurricane would have done even more harm had they not been in place. And perhaps New Orleans just likes keeping up its slightly eccentric, free-spirited image? Given there is also a surprisingly blunt recommendation to use drugs in the piece, that explanation seems to ... hold water (if you'll pardon one further pun).There is a bit to be got out of this film, but the why of it can't be submerged entirely, so nothing here is really ... plain sailing.
Reviewed by RosanaBotafogo 8 / 10

Sensitive and delicate journey...

That sweet and melancholic film, wrapped in sentimental madness, insane ideas and crazy behaviors, but this is how life should be lived, intensely crazy, with its magenta sneakers, its rafts in the air, towards the unexpected and adverse ... This film does more that entertains us, makes us reflect on life, and think about the people we love, a beautiful, sensitive and delicate journey... "A survey states that 67% of people die when no one is looking ... What I haven't discovered is how many people live while no one is looking "
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