Message In A Bottle

The letter's poetry and heartache reach out to Theresa, prompting her to begin a search for the author that eventually leads her out to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to a sailboat builder named Garret Blake (Costner).

Since the death of his wife Catherine, Garret has led a solitary existince, save the relationship with his father, Dodge (Newman), who attempts to wrest his son away from his grief for Catherine. But now, a woman named Theresa appears in town and slowly opens Garret's heart.