A Walk to Remember
by Adam Shankman
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Actor: Daryl Hannah, Lauren German, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Shane WestDirector: Adam Shankman
Producer: Bill Johnson
Producer: Casey La Scala
Producer: Denise Di Novi
Producer: E.K. Gaylord II
Producer: Edward McDonnell
Writer: Karen Janszen
Writer: Nicholas Sparks
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of A Walk to Remember
Movie Review: A Film to Remember for All Time
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a truly remarkable film. A great film is characterized by the message that it leaves with its viewers and with the impact that it has on the "soul". This movie scores on both accounts because it is inspiring; it is sad, yet fulfilling; it restores faith in human dignity, while at the same time extolling the beauty in life and in the power of love, the most powerful of all human emotions.
It is important not to abandon this film in the beginning, when it appears that it is just another of those uninspiring and ridiculous teenage movies. At the outset, the film depicts the hero, Landon Carter (Shane West) as just another hare-brained teenager headed for lifelong problems. After getting into trouble by pulling a childish initiation prank on a "friend", he encounters the school nerd, a preacher's daughter, Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), who is tutoring (voluntarily) problem kids at the same school that Landon is sent to for disciplinary reasons. Landon has actually been assigned three duties by the school principal for his misbehavior: janitorial work every day after school, the tutoring, and participation in the school's Spring play. He encounters Jamie again in the play, where she is a singer. As the lead male part, Jamie sings to him at the end of the play, her voice and beauty providing another step toward his transformation. Landon begins to realize that the things that Jamie represents are far loftier than what he has been exposing himself to by hanging around with the "cool" kids. This transformation really blossoms when his "friends" prepare a poster depicting Jamie's face on the body of a porn star. Landon then rejects his old friends, even to the extent of punching his former best friend in the face.
After convincing Jamie's pastor father (Peter Coyote) that he should have the faith to allow Landon to take Jamie to dinner on Saturday night, love really begins to bloom after they spend the evening together and take the "walk to remember". Jamie had helped Landon with his lines in the play only on the condition that he not fall in love with her, which was a joke to him at the time. It is not a joke anymore, especially after Landon admits to Jamie that he has fallen for her and Jamie reminds him of their agreement. Of course, she must eventually admit both to her father and to Landon that she has also fallen in love.
Part of the power in this movie is that, not only is Landon Carter changed by Jamie's love and outlook on life, but his friends are changed as well, mainly as a result of his transformation. They come to realize that Jamie's and Landon's love is true and that Jamie's way is far superior to their own. Jamie's father also learns some important lessons about his daughter's (and thus his own) happiness and that it is worthwhile to have faith in someone who has
changed for the better. Landon's relationship with his estranged father is also reversed as a result of Jamie's influence. In other words, Landon's transformation develops into a chain reaction that carries through to almost all of the characters in the movie, all this being ultimately attributed to the influence and positive attitude of one very special young lady.
There are many lessons to be learned for young people from this film. I only hope that many of them will see it and let its message help them to change their attitudes and their lives. At the minimum, I would like to see many young people be as profoundly affected by this film as I was.
My congratulations to the Director, Adam Shankman, the principal players Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, and Daryl Hannah for the superb jobs that they did in making this film into the masterpiece that it is.
Changes: There are a few changes that I would have made in this movie to make it more accurate. As a professional astronomer, these changes are all related to Jamie's interest in astronomy and telescopes.
1. Jamie's line about Pluto should be extended to read "Pluto rises a few minutes before the Sun and, at magnitude 14, is too faint to be seen by this small telescope anyway. When I have a larger telescope, it will be possible to see Pluto."
2. In her line about building a larger telescope to see Comet Hyakutake next Spring, the word return should have been omitted because that comet was a first-time visitor from the outer Solar System, at least in recorded history. Comets are usually discovered and known to become bright far before they reach the inner Solar System where we can see them clearly.
3. I can imagine that the Director felt that the star naming business added a romantic touch to the story, but this practice is a scam and has been strongly discouraged by the International Astronomical Union, the world organization of professional astronomers. Perhaps some gift along similar lines, such as a Comet Hyakutake necklace or pendant, would have been more appropriate.
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