| | | It All Comes Down to Who's by Your Side.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart in this coming-of-age story based on a bestseller by Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle) and directed by Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner). Multi-platinum recording star Mandy Moore plays Jamie, a preacher's daughter whose self-confidence doesn't depend on the opinions of others. Shane West (TV's Once and Again) plays Landon, who's skating through high school on looks and bravado. But when events thrust him into Jamie's world, he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget. Trust. Hope. Goals. Faith. Unconditional love. They're the remarkable steps to a life changed--and A Walk to Remember.
"...likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"Mandy Moore is awesome." Mark S. Allen, UPN
"...brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone." Philadelphia Inquirer
"...Moore and West are so quietly convincing...[the film is] a small treasure." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...beautifully acted." San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | 2 Feature-Length Audio Commentaries, One By Shane West, Mandy Moore & Director Adam Shankman, The Other By Novelist Nicholas Sparks & Screenwriter Karen Janszen | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Cast Film Highlights | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Music Video: Mandy Moore's Cry | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 5/15/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 116329 | | UPC: 00085391163299 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Daryl Hannah | | Mandy Moore | | Peter Coyote | | Shane West | | Adam Shankman - Director | | Douglas Hall - Production Designer | | Edward McDonnell - Executive Producer | | Emma E. Hickox - Editor | | Hunt Lowry - Producer | | Julio Macat - Cinematographer | | Karen Janszen - Screenplay | | Linwood Taylor - Art Director | | Mervyn Warren - Original Music By | | Nicholas Sparks - Based On Novel By |
| Awards |
Winner (2002) | | | MTV Award, Mandy Moore, Breakthrough Female Performance |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...A WALK TO REMEMBER is a sensitively told story of first love....West and Moore rise to the challenge their roles demand under the committed direction of Adam Shankman..." 01/25/2002 p.C17Variety
"...Shane West makes an appealingly persuasive transition from embittered cynic to earnest romantic..." 01/28/2002 p.28 Chicago Sun-Times
"...A love story so sweet, sincere and positive that it sneaks past our ironic defenses....It tells a quietly touching story of a love based on values and respect..." 03/17/2002 p.5 Total Film
"...[Moore] turns in a sensitive, charming and radiant performance..." 10/01/2002 p.131 PopMatters 8 of 10
"Amid the crowd of blonde girl pop stars who rolled out at more or less the same moment (Britney, Christina, Jessica), Mandy Moore stands out. Just count the ways: she's the first to dye her hair brown; the first to pitch Neutrogena; the first to host her own MTV talk show last summer (Mandy)...She's also the first to make it to the movies -- as a high school diva in last year's The Princess Diaries and now, as the polite, religious, excruciatingly virtuous protagonist in A Walk to Remember...Directed by Adam (The Wedding Planner) Shankman, and based on Nicholas Sparks' ""best-selling novel"" (he also wrote the novel on which Costner's Message in a Bottle is based), A Walk to Remember is audaciously corny. Indeed, it revels in its corn. Though screenwriter Karen Janszen has displaced the story from the '50s to now, the film insists that the same values apply, across these 50 years." - Cynthia Fuchs
ReelViews 6 of 10
"Once again, director Adam Shankman has foisted upon the public a production so narrowly targeted that a majority of movie-goers will ignore its existence. In the case of A Walk to Remember, the only people likely to have nice things to say about what's on the screen are girls in their pre-teen and early teenage years, and the word ""discrimination"" is rarely used to describe their movie-going habits...I won't claim that A Walk to Remember is unendurable, just uninspired, although it can boast one of the most inventive product placements in recent memory...The target audience may enjoy the film, but there's little hope than anyone other than 11-15-year old girls will be willing to endure Shankman's curdled concoction. There's nothing remotely memorable about this walk." - James Berardinelli
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