Although I am sure many people could look past this, I struggled with this film because I struggled with the notion that Louise had her way with a guy who had applied to the graduate program where she worked...and she was in charge of admissions. As a person who applied to MANY graduate programs before getting accepted, I just got stuck with how inappropriate Louise was....and it made it very difficult to care about her and her problems.

Louise (Laura Linney) is a divorcee who seems to spend most her energy with her job at Columbia University. She also has a very odd relationship with her ex-husband...very odd. One day, as Louise is perusing the applications to the art school, she notices one. It's because the young man looks like a guy Louise fell in love with long, long ago....but he died. Additionally, he shares the same name AND his art style is very similar! It's really freaky. So what does Louise do? She invites him for a 'personal interview' and bones him. Huh???

While there is more to the story than this, I just struggled with the indefensible actions by Louise...it was just creepy. Still, the acting was good and the film a decent time-passer.

Louise Harrington (Laura Linney) is an admission officer at Columbia University School of the Arts. She takes an interest in applicant F. Scott Feinstadt (Topher Grace). He reminds her of a teen love and she immediately has an affair with him. Her sister Missy Goldberg (Marcia Gay Harden) had actually stolen the lost love who died in a car crash as Missy's boyfriend. Louise's ex-husband Peter Harrington (Gabriel Byrne) shocks her with his sex addiction revelation. He had cheated on her with men and women during their last three years of sexless marriage. Her recovering drug addict brother Sammy Silverstein (Paul Rudd) helped him with recovery and even a new young girlfriend. Her mother Ellie Silverstein (Lois Smith) dismisses her. She starts to wonder if F. Scott is an incarnation of her dead one-true-love.

Dylan Kidd's previous film is Roger Dodger. I like that one a little and this one a little less than that. Laura Linney has great sadness. The weird family characters go a little far into broad dysfunction. I don't like Topher Grace in this role. He's not mysterious enough. It would be great if he turns into fully evil. It would great if his character is something more. This is a good opportunity for something sexy, or dark, or intense. It ends up as not that much of anything.

P.S. is a drama film directed by Dylan Kidd about a May-December romance turns metaphysical.The film stars Laura Linney and Topher Grace together with Gabriel Byrne,Marcia Gay Harden,Paul Rudd and Lois Smith.The screenplay by Kidd and Helen Schulman is based on Schulman's novel P.S. I Love You So Damn Much.

Louise has a warm friendship with her ex-husband and a satisfying position as an admissions officer for Columbia University, but she's never gotten over losing her first love from high school. When a young man with the same name, face, and artistic talents as her lost love suddenly arrives for an admissions interview, Louise tumbles into an abrupt and questionable relationship.

The movie is at its best when it follows the tics and foibles of human behavior; Linney and Grace both give vivid, lively performances. Both genders are programmed by eons of Darwinian genetic strategy, and so we believe them, and because Linney and Grace are sexy and play well together, the age gap is not a barrier so much as additional seasoning. Every time reincarnation rears its head, the movie flounders, particularly in clumsy scenes with Louise's predatory best friend, who stole Louise's boy so long ago. Fortunately, that element is almost a tacked-on subplot.Nevertheless,it takes something away from the movie.