
Louise Harrington, a divorced, thirty-something admissions officer at Columbia University's School of Fine Arts is intelligent, pretty, and successful, yet unfulfilled. That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk and she arranges to interview the young painter. When F. Scott Feinstadt appears, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Louise's high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the int... (Full plot summary below)
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Louise Harrington, a divorced, thirty-something admissions officer at Columbia University's School of Fine Arts is intelligent, pretty, and successful, yet unfulfilled. That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk and she arranges to interview the young painter. When F. Scott Feinstadt appears, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Louise's high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the interview, Louise and Scott have embarked on a passionately uninhibited older woman/younger man affair. But is Scott just a reminder of Louise's lost love? And is Scott just trying to wheedle his way into the Ivy League? Adding to the romantic complications is competition from Louise's best friend from high school, Missy, who shows up to claim the affections of the boy; Louise's co-dependent ex-husband Peter; her cynical mother and fresh-out-of-rehab brother.
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| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Andrew WrightWhen the film dispenses with its Harlequinish plot foolishness and flies on the director's considerable instinct, it's a gas. |
| Washington TimesChristian TotoP.S. offers two plum roles for stars Laura Linney and Topher Grace and at least three plots for them to unravel |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThe actors elevate the material a bit, but they can't escape the fact that the movie only has vague goals set for itself. |
| New York Magazine/VulturePeter RainerIt's a depressing sign of these Botoxed times that we're not meant to question the fact that the ravishing Laura Linney, playing a 39-year-old admissions officer in Columbia's fine-arts department, is over the hill. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonUltimately, p.s. confirms Kidd's talent without expanding it or achieving the comic/dramatic heights of "Roger Dodger." |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFascinating because it require us to see the younger character through two sets of eyes -- our own, which witness an attractive woman drawn to a younger male, and the women's, which see a lost love in a new container. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasIt's a romantic comedy-drama that's every bit as unpredictable, offbeat and assured as Kidd's first film, although some third-act problems keep it from real greatness. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversP.S., adapted from Helen Schulman's novel, is Linney's show, and she makes it hilarious and haunting. |
| Reel.comTimothy KnightIn his most demanding screen role to date, Grace is simply terrific as J. Scott, whose flippant exterior masks a sensitive and surprisingly mature soul. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderAn actress who can emerge from a sex scene with a genuinely flushed bosom and cheeks will produce a performance that goes well beyond words. |