The Last Letter From Your Lover

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The Last Letter From Your Lover

2021

1h 50m

Drama

Romance

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A pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center. As she uncovers the story behind Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley), the wife of a wealthy industrialist, and Anthony O'Hare (Callum Turner) the financial journalist assigned to cover him, a love story of Ellie's own begins to unfold with the assistance of an earnest and endearing archivist (Nabhaan Rizwan) who helps her track down more letters. Based on the novel by JoJo Moyes and directed by Augustine Frizzell.

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Critics Consensus

The Last Letter from Your Lover benefits from solid performances and a striking visual style, although its double dose of melodrama may prove too much for some viewers.

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Simran Hans

Observer (UK)

08/08/2021

4/5

Indecision and miscommunication, it turns out, are timeless.

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

08/06/2021

2/5

An adaptation of a Jojo Moyes novel, here's a half-baked movie that offers two love stories for the price of one.

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Ella Kemp

Empire Magazine

08/06/2021

2/5

By plaguing the elegant and tender moments of forbidden love with try-hard dialogue and illogical meet-cutes, everything that should make your heart sing just sounds out of tune.

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Geoffrey Macnab

iNews.co.uk

01/16/2025

2/5

The film is trying both to be a detective story and a torrid romance, but the two sides of the narrative get in each other’s way.

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Joshua Polanski

Boston Hassle

07/19/2024

[The performances of the two leads are good but] do too little to ameliorate The Last Letter From Your Lover from the wounds of tropes and conventions.

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Juanma Fernández París

El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico)

12/12/2023

Jones and Woodley are more than capable of capturing the humanity of their characters... Where the film falls short is in being able to provide any astute or profound observations about the romantic complications that fuel the film's central plot.

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Clive E

@Darto6 Feb 14

Ok I suppose. For a film that sets out only to pull the heart strings it’s fairly tedious and doesn’t pull at them very hard

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Meagan G.

@meagan.gregory Dec 30

I enjoyed this and was really looking forward to what would happen next season.

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J T

@UtahRondo Jun 17

Watchable, but not particularly good. I thought the acting was decent, but the story was not very good. The characters were not likeable. It is basically just a movie about how a woman cheats on her husband with a guy who previously cheated on his wife and then somehow they are the heroes you should root for. Not worth it.

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Milana P

@RT41422749 04/17/2025

This movie is so amazing. Very elegant touching and emotional. Shailene woodley acting is incredible.

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Susan B

@Susanszb 03/09/2025

This was such a good movie! The actors chosen for the roles was perfect, and the two storylines worked so well running parallel to each other. I would highly recommend this movie!

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Patrick F

@RT15752360 05/13/2024

I don't really like romance movies, but this one I found entertaining and engaging. The what ifs of the story were heart breaking. The predictable happy ending was no surprise, but well executed. Felicity Jones was terrific. Really liked this film.

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A pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center. As she uncovers the story behind Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley), the wife of a wealthy industrialist, and Anthony O'Hare (Callum Turner) the financial journalist assigned to cover him, a love story of Ellie's own begins to unfold with the assistance of an earnest and endearing archivist (Nabhaan Rizwan) who helps her track down more letters. Based on the novel by JoJo Moyes and directed by Augustine Frizzell.

Director: Augustine Frizzell
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Stephen Traynor, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding, Nick Payne
Production Co: Blueprint Pictures, The Film Farm
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 23, 2021
Runtime: 1h 50m