Return to Sender is a 2004 film

2004 in film

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 written by Neal Purvis

Neal Purvis

Neal Purvis is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the last five James Bond films with his long-time collaborator Robert Wade.-Selected written screenplays:*Let Him Have It *The World Is Not Enough...

 and Robert Wade

Robert Wade

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 and directed by Bille August

Bille August

Bille August is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best...

. It is also known under the title Convicted.

The film stars Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn

-Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...

 and Connie Nielsen.

Aidan Quinn was nominated for a 2005 IFTA

Irish Film and Television Awards

The Irish Film and Television Awards were first awarded in 2003. Its sole aim is to celebrate Ireland's notably talented film and television community...

 Best Actor in a Feature Film award for his performance.

Quinn plays an unscrupulous attorney who is challenged by Nielsen, his latest 'client'/target.

Plot

Quinn's character, a jaded ex-lawyer, has been befriending and exploiting death row convicts and selling their final letters to the media. While attempting to foster his relationship with Nielsen's character, he becomes convinced that she is innocent.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes

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, the film has a 33% rating under the title Convicted and a 39% rating under the title Return to Sender

Cast

• Connie Nielsen as Charlotte Cory
• Aidan Quinn
  Aidan Quinn
  -Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...
  
   as Frank Nitzche
• Tim Daly as Martin North
• Kelly Preston
  Kelly Preston
  Kelly Preston is an American actress and former model.- Early years :Preston was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old...
  
   as Susan Kennan
• Mark Ryan
  Mark Ryan
  Mark Ryan is an English actor, stuntman and voice actor.-Biography:Born in Yorkshire, Mark Ryan has been combining his acting, singing, writing and Action Direction talents in an eclectic and successful international career ranging over 30 years.He did several major musicals in London's West End,...
  
   as Mark Schlesser
• Mark Holton
  Mark Holton
  Mark Holton is an American actor.-Career:Holton's most famous roles may be that of Francis Buxton, Pee-Wee Herman's nemesis, in the 1985 blockbuster Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and Joe Charbonic in Bille August's Convicted, starring Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn. Other notable 1980s roles were as...
  
   as Joe Charbonic
• Sara-Marie Maltha as Stella / Julie
• Bill Thomas
  Bill Thomas
  William Marshall Thomas , commonly known as Bill Thomas, is an American politician, and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979–2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district and as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means...
  
   as Gubby
• Randy Colton as Joe Hammond
• Montana Sullivan as