A Walk to Remember
The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Sentenced to community service and membership in his school's drama club, Landon is forced to seek help from Jamie Sullivan (pop singer Mandy Moore), the conservative, religious, plain-Jane daughter of the town's Baptist minister (Peter Coyote). When the two students begin to fall in love, Landon struggles with the drop in popularity that his new friendship brings, while Jamie is forced to deal with her strict father and a secret that she's keeping from her schoolmates. A Walk to Remember, which co-stars Daryl Hannah, is the second of Sparks's novels to make it to the big screen after Message in a Bottle (1999). more..
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Shane West, Mandy Moore,Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Al Thompson
A love story so sweet, sincere and positive that it sneaks past the defenses built up in this age of irony.
A movie for teenagers, and, as these things go, very entertaining.
A sensitively told story of first love that could have been more affecting with a little more grit and without so mawkish a score.
Goo oozes without mercy in A Walk to Remember.
A movie where the miracles -- and treacly moments -- keep topping each other.
Breakthrough Female Performance
MTV Movie Awards (2002)
Best Live Action Family Film
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (2003)
Film - Choice Breakout Performance, Actress
Teen Choice Awards (2002)
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