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A Walk to Remember
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.
2002 · Directed by Adam Shankman · 102 min · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 6 frames
Tagline
It all comes down to who's by your side.
Plot
In Beaufort, North Carolina, popular and rebellious high-school senior Landon Carter and his friends leave evidence of underage drinking on school grounds and severely injure another student as the result of a prank. The principal gives him the choice of being expelled or helping the janitorial staff after school as well as tutoring fellow disadvantaged young students and finally participating in the school play. During these functions, Landon notices Jamie Sullivan, a girl he has known since kindergarten who is the local Reverend Sullivan's daughter. Since he is one of the in crowd, he has seldom paid attention to Jamie, who wears modest dresses and owns only one sweater. She makes no attempt to wear make-up or otherwise improve her looks or attract attention to herself.
Landon has trouble learning his lines for the play. Jamie, who is also in the play, agrees to help him on one condition: she warns Landon not to fall in love with her, which he dismisses as impossible. Landon and Jamie begin practicing at her house after school, and a spark of affection arises between them. However, when he blows her off in front of his friends, she decides she wants nothing to do with him. Feeling guilty, he starts taking independent initiative to tutor and to rehearse.
On the opening night of the play, Jamie astounds Landon and the audience with her beauty and voice. Onstage at the ending to the play, Jamie sings. When she finishes, Landon kisses her, which is not part of the play. Jamie continues to avoid him until he gives her a new sweater as a peace offering. Landon's spiteful ex-girlfriend, Belinda, plays a cruel prank on her by photoshopping her head onto the body of a woman in scanty, sensual attire; she and Landon's friends are shocked when Landon defends Jamie. Landon then asks Jamie out, but she says her father does not allow her to date. Landon asks her father for permission to date his daughter, which Jamie's father reluctantly allows after Landon professes his feelings for Jamie.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Karen Janszen
- Cinematography: Julio Macat
- Edited by: Emma E. Hickox
- Music: Mervyn Warren
- Production design: Doug Hall
- Produced by: Denise Di Novi, Hunt Lowry
Cast
- Mandy Moore as Jamie Sullivan
- Shane West as Landon Carter
- Peter Coyote as Reverend Sullivan
- Daryl Hannah as Cynthia Carter
- Lauren German as Belinda
- Clayne Crawford as Dean
- Paz de la Huerta as Tracie
- Matt Lutz as Clay Gephardt
- Al Thompson as Eric
- Jonathan Parks Jordan as Walker
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Pandora Pictures, Di Novi Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $11,800,000
- Box office: $47,494,916
- Themes: high school, based on novel or book, theatre group, north carolina, romance, coming of age, cancer, tragic love, valentine's day, nostalgic
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