History Film / LettersToJuliet

* ActorAllusion: Creator/AmandaSeyfried as Sophie. She was Sophie on ''Theatre/MammaMia''.

%% * BelligerentSexualTension: Between Sophie and Charlie. From the start, they spend a majority of their time spent together bickering and snarking at one another due to their differences before getting to know each other and eventually falling for one another.

* SiblingSwitchSquick: Charlie failed to mention to Sophie that [[spoiler: there's two Patricias. The Patricia she seen him with as a "date" was really his cousin and the other was his long-forgotten ex-girlfriend.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Inverted with Charlie who doesn't want to see his grandmother hurt again by a man that may or may not still be alive.

* NamesTheSame: In-Universe. Most of the middle is finding the correct Lorenzo Bartolini, among the 74 other Lorenzo Bartolinis.

%% * LampShadeHanging:

* SceneryPorn: Gorgeous langscape. A review described it as an advert for the Tuscan tourist board.

* BlatantLies: When Charlie falls from a balcony professing his love for Sophie, he asks her if nobody saw. Sophie sees that Lorenzo and Claire are walking closer to the scene, but tells Charlie that nobody saw.

%% ** To ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.

%% * TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Sophie, Claire and Charlie, a grandmother with her grandson and their newest friend and Charlie's eventual love interest.

%% * WhiteStallion: Lorenzo is riding one in the climax. Charlie even lampshades it after Lorenzo and Claire are reunited.

%% * ArcWords: "It is never too late for true love.", [[spoiler: Claire learns this when she locates and eventually finds her lost love Lorenzo and eventually Sophie and Charlie find this as well with each other]].

%% * DecemberDecemberRomance: Claire and Lorenzo, who met and fell in love when they were teenagers in 1957 and are reunited when they're both widowed and in their 60's but still in love with each other.

%% * IntergenerationalFriendship: Sophie and Claire, who is a grandmother in her 60's and the other who is in her 20's and a fact checker/writer, but they get along quite well, with Sophie seeing Claire as close as a surrogate mother figure.

%% * KissingCousins: Sophie assumes Charlie and Patricia to being this when she is told by Charlie that Patricia is his cousin, leading a confused Sophie to ask him how is that legal. Charlie scrambles to clear up any confusion between them, telling her that there are two Patricias.

* MissingMom: Sophie's mother abandoned both her and her father when she was a little girl and Charlie lost his parents in a car crash when he was 10 years old.

%% * NamesTheSame: In-Universe. Most of the middle is finding the correct Lorenzo Bartolini, among the 74 other Lorenzo Bartolinis.

%% * ParentalMarriageVeto: The reason Claire and Lorenzo did not marry in 1957 was because her parents disapproved of their union when they were teenagers in love. Their disapproval prompted young Claire and Lorenzo to plan to run away together but then Claire got exams back in England and got scared due to the pressure from her parents so she ran away.

%% * RomanticFalseLead: One for each love interest, Sophie's negligent fiancée Victor and Patricia, Charlie's former love and the other wedding date (and cousin).

(This was director Gary Winick's final film before his early demise at 49.)

''Letters to Juliet'' is a 2010 romantic drama starring Creator/AmandaSeyfried and Chris Egan, Vanessa Redgrave and [[Film/{{Django}} Franco Nero]]. It is the tale of Sophie, a young American who travels to the city of Verona, on a "pre-honeymoon" with [[DisposableFiance her fiance Victor]]. Verona was the home of Juliet Capulet of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' fame, and due to a series of distractions and divisions, Sophie ends up joining a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love while her fiance drives round northern Italy looking at mushrooms and cheeses.

%% * BelligerentSexualTension: Between Sophie and Charlie, they spend a majority of their spent together bickering and snarking at one another due to their differences before getting to know each other and eventually falling for one another.

%% * KissingCousins: Sophie assumes Charlie and Patricia to being this when she is told by Charlie that Patricia is his cousin, leading a confused Sophie to ask him how is that legal and Charlie scrambling to clear up any confusion between them.

%% * WhiteStallion: Lorenzo is riding one in the climax.

%% * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Sophie is in tears when she confesses to [[spoiler: Charlie]] that she loves him from a balcony.

* MissingMom: Sophie's mother left her father and her.

%% * NamesTheSame: In-Universe. Most of the middle is finding the correct Lorenzo Bartolini.

%% * ParentalMarriageVeto: The reason Claire and Lorenzo did not marry in 1957.

%% * RaceForYourLove: [[spoiler:Subverted as he gets there but gives up.]]

%% * RomanticFalseLead: One for each love interest, Victor and Patricia.

%% * ShipperOnDeck: Claire and Sophie for the other's relationship.

%% * SixthRanger: Sophie to the Secretaries of Juliet.

%% * TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Sophie, Claire and Charlie.
%% * UnresolvedSexualTension: Sophie and Charlie.

%% * DisposableFiance: Victor, naturally, as he doesn't really pay attention to Sophie nor does he share the same interest as her.

%% * IdenticalGrandson: The two Lorenzos at the end are said to be identical.
%% * IntergenerationalFriendship: Sophie and Claire

%% * ItsForABook: Sophie's reasoning for tagging along.
%% * KissingCousins:

%% * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Sophie to Charlie from a balcony.
%% * ArcSymbol: Balconies.
%% * ArcWords: "It is never too late for true love."

%% * BelligerentSexualTension: Between Sophie and Charlie.

%% * DecemberDecemberRomance: Claire and Lorenzo.
%% * DisposableFiance: Victor, naturally.

''Letters to Juliet'' is a 2010 romantic drama starring Creator/AmandaSeyfried and Chris Egan, Vanessa Redgrave and [[Film/{{Django}} Franco Nero]]. It is the tale of Sophie, a young American who travels to the city of Verona, on a "pre-honeymoon" with [[DisposableFiance her fiance Victor]]. Verona was the home of Juliet Capulet of ''RomeoAndJuliet'' fame, and due to a series of distractions and divisions, Sophie ends up joining a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love while her fiance drives round northern Italy looking at mushrooms and cheeses.

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!Tropes in this film include:

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Sophie to Charlie from a balcony.
* ArcSymbol: Balconies.
* ArcWords: "It is never too late for true love."

* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Sophie and Charlie.

* DeadpanSnarker: Charlie is great at this. When Claire describes picnicking in the dirt:
-->Sophie:That's so romantic.
-->Charlie:What's romantic about eating in the dirt?
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Claire and Lorenzo.
* DisposableFiance: Victor, naturally.

* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Sophie is the Realist, Claire is the Conflicted, Charlie is TheCynic and Lorenzo is the Optimist.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sophie is the Guardian, Claire is the Idealist, Charlie is the Rational and Lorenzo is the Artisan.
* FreudianTrio: Sophie (Id), Claire (Ego) and Charlie (Superego).
* IdenticalGrandson: The two Lorenzos at the end are said to be identical.
* InformedAbility: Averted. Sophie's letter to Claire is very well written, making it clear that she really ''was'' wasting her life as a fact checker when she should have been pursuing her dreams as a writer.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Sophie and Claire
* ItsForABook: Sophie's reasoning for tagging along.
* KissingCousins: Averted, but it does lead to a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* LampShadeHanging:
--> [[DeadPanSnarker Charlie]]: [[spoiler:"Of course, a balcony."]]
* MissingMom: Sophie has one.

* NamesTheSame: In-Universe. Most of the middle is finding the correct Lorenzo Bartolini.
* OneSteveLimit: Subverted as there are at least a dozen Lorenzo Bartolinis and [[spoiler:the two Patricias cause confusion to Sophie]].

* ParentalAbandonment:
** Charlie's parents died in a car accident when he was ten.
** Also, Sophie's mother left her father and her.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: The reason Claire and Lorenzo did not marry in 1957.

* RaceForYourLove: [[spoiler:Subverted as he gets there but gives up.]]

* RoadTripPlot: Well, Claire, Sophie and Charlie ''did'' spend most of their time on the road...
* RomanticFalseLead: One for each love interest, Victor and Patricia.
* SceneryPorn: A review described it as an advert for the Tuscan tourist board.
* ShipperOnDeck: Claire and Sophie for the other's relationship.
* ShoutOut: To ''RomeoAndJuliet''. Also, the beginning is a slideshow of kissing couples (and animals), most of them famous paintings or photos... [[{{Anime}} except for one.]]
* SixthRanger: Sophie to the Secretaries of Juliet.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Have you seen the trailer? If so, you probably don't need to see the movie but you should anyway.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Sophie, Claire and Charlie.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Again, Sophie and Charlie.
* WhiteStallion: Lorenzo is riding one in the climax.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Sophie's boss wonders this prompting the final twenty minutes.

* KissingCousins: Averted, but it does lead to a CrowningMomentOfFunny.