Other Titles • A Walk to Remember • Nur mit Dir (2002)
Synopses for A Walk to Remember (2002)
1.
Landon Carter (Shane West) and his friends are the coolest kids in Beaufort, North Carolina. They wear the right clothes, drive the right cars, and get into just enough trouble to be rebellious. Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore) is the opposite--there doesn't seem to be anything cool about her. The preacher's daughter, plain Jamie wears big boxy dresses and the same sweater every day. She endures the scorn of Landon and his friends with a smile, always looking for the best in people. When a prank planned by Landon and his friend goes terribly wrong, the principal sentences him to tutoring on the weekends and working on the school play, activities in which Jamie is involved. As the two begin spending time together, Landon finds himself intrigued by this guileless girl who sees beauty in everything and exhibits unwavering faith in people and in the world. When circumstances beyond Landon and Jamie's control threaten their love, he stays by her side and does everything he can to make her dreams come true. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks, the film also stars Peter Coyote and Daryl Hannah.
(56 votes)
2.
With refreshing intelligence, A Walk to Remember offers welcome relief from the recent onslaught of teen-movie crudeness. Adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks and transplanted from 1958 to the present day, this admirable teen romance recognises that two 18-year-olds--Landon (Shane West) and Jamie (pop singer Mandy Moore)--can be smart, mature and sensible about the very real love they share. He's a popular kid in the cool crowd. She's got a goody-goody reputation as the dowdy daughter of a local minister (Peter Coyote); her values and priorities aren't rooted in peer pressure, and Landon feels blessed by her self-assured nobility. Their mutual affection inevitably heads into Love Story territory, but the movie is honest enough to survive its own schmaltz, and its attractive cast (including Daryl Hannah as Landon's mum) embraces a tone of sincerity and mutual respect. Finally, a teen movie with teens you can admire. --Jeff Shannon
(39 votes)
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In high school, more than any other time in life, you're either in or you're out. At Beauford High, Landon Carter is definitely on the A-list and Jamie Sullivan...well, Jamie isn't even on a list.
Landon and Jamie would likely not have given each other more than a passing glance as they moved through the halls and classes of Beauford High. They might never have met if it hadn't been for that one night and a prank gone wrong.
It was a terrible night. Landon and his pals dared a naive new classmate to take a dive into a murky pool at the local cement factor as an initiation into their clique. The boy was eager to please. By the time they realized the pool was not empty but full of broken and rusty pipes, it was too late. He made the jump and then floated back up with a bloody wound. Panicking, the kids off with a rush of screeching tires - all except Landon, who lingered a moment to reassure the terrified diver and, consequently, was the only one caught.
He was lucky to avoid jail time but Landon's punishment seems worse to him than being locked up. The school principal assigns him to the tutoring program, thinking the young rebel might redeem himself by helping a struggling student from a neighboring school. He also hopes Landon might gain some maturity by leading the Beauford High School Drama Club's class play. Performing on stage in front of his buddies will put him in the position of those they so often ridicule. But the principal cannot foresee how much these experiences might actually change Landon. He doesn't count on divine intervention in the form of Jamie Sullivan.
Jamie is already volunteering her time to the tutoring program. She is also a lead in the spring play. At first, the very fact of her participation in both activities is proof to Landon that he is being unfairly cast into the school's nerd class. Finding himself in the same social sphere as the minister's daughter, even for a few hours a week, is mortifying.
Jamie is not pleased to be sharing extracurricular time with Landon either. She takes her interests and her community service seriously and doesn't care for his cavalier attitude. Knowing about the cement factory incident that almost killed a boy, she finds Landon and his friends contemptible. Still, she has been taught to forgive and to try to find the good in all people, so she dutifully puts her person feelings aside and does her best to assist Landon when he asks for help memorizing his lines for the play. Besides, there is just a change - or is she imagining it? - that Landon might not be as bad as he liked to appear.
Jamie's father, seeing the boy on his doorstep one evening for a rehearsal session, is seriously concerned. Why would a kid like Landon be spending time with Jamie? Surely no good can come of it. A devoted single parent to his only child after her mother's early death, Reverend Sullivan's love for his daughter is as powerful and focused as the sermons he vigorously delivers from his pulpit Sunday mornings. It is clear the he will allow no one to hurt his little girl.
(42 votes)
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Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart in this coming-of-age story based on the best-selling book. Teen idol Shane West and multiplatinum recording star Mandy Moore star as two high schoolers - she a straitlaced preacher's daughter and he an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget.
(42 votes)
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