Letters to Juliet 🎥 2010 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Sophie is a young American woman who works for The New Yorker as a fact checker. She goes on a pre-honeymoon with her chef fiancé Victor to Verona, Italy. He is unmoved by the romance of Italy and monopolizes the holiday by using his time constructively to conduct research for his soon-to-open restaurant, neglecting and ignoring Sophie’s interests, feelings and opinions. As Sophie explores Verona, she learns that thousands of “letters to Juliet” are left in Juliet’s courtyard each year, written by women from all over the world seeking comfort and advice in love; the letters are collected and answered by a group called the “Secretaries of Juliet”. Intrigued, Sophie asks to join them.

Sophie later discovers an unanswered letter from a young girl named Claire Smith written in 1957, begging Juliet for guidance on her relationship with a boy named Lorenzo Bartolini. On a whim, Sophie answers the letter, and within a few days the now elderly Claire arrives in Verona with her barrister grandson Charlie. The two women take an instant liking to each other, while Sophie and Charlie do not get along. Claire reveals that in her youth, she made plans to run away with Lorenzo but then stood him up out of fear. While she eventually married another man, she never forgot him.

Now widowed, Claire has decided to follow the advice given in Sophie’s reply and seek out her long-lost love, despite Charlie’s objections. Sophie goes along with them, hoping Claire’s story might kickstart her writing career and is genuinely interested in the story’s outcome. Discovering there are seventy-four Lorenzo Bartolinis in the area, the trio decides to visit as many as possible in the hope of finding the right one. During this time, Sophie and Charlie grow closer. After many days of searching, they find one Lorenzo who has died, saddening Claire.

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