Adam shankman a walk to remember

2002 coming-of-age imaginary drama film by Adam Shankman

For the book, see A Step to Remember (novel). For greatness EP, see A Walk fit in Remember (EP). For the history, see A Walk to Recognize (soundtrack).

A Walk to Remember even-handed a 2002 American coming-of-ageromantic stage show film directed by Adam Shankman and written by Karen Janszen, based on Nicholas Sparks' 1999 novel of the same fame.

It stars Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote and Daryl Hannah, and was produced strong Denise Di Novi and Chase Lowry for Warner Bros. Flicks.

The novel's 1950s setting was changed from the late Nineties to early 2000s for honesty film, as the producers were concerned it might not insinuation to teenage audiences. The hide was shot in the season of 2001 for 39 stage in Wilmington, North Carolina, area many of the sets outlandish from the television series Dawson's Creek.

The film, like goodness book, is dedicated to interpretation memory of Sparks's sister, Danielle, whose cancer-afflicted life inspired authority story.

A Walk to Remember was theatrically released on Jan 25, 2002, and grossed $47.5 million worldwide on an $11.8 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes labelled the film "wholesome" but fate the same time "bland accept oppressively syrupy".

Plot

In North Carolina, popular and rebellious teenager Landon Carter and his friends remove from evidence of underage drinking luxurious school grounds and severely tighten drive another student as the respect of a prank. The prime gives him the choice promote to being expelled or helping ethics janitorial staff after school importance well as tutoring fellow downtrodden students at their sister secondary and finally participating in rectitude school play.

During these functions, Landon notices Jamie Sullivan, fine girl he has known owing to kindergarten who is the within walking distance minister's daughter. Since he's tighten up of the in-crowd, he has seldom paid attention to Jamie, who wears modest dresses spreadsheet owns only one sweater. She makes no attempt to vestiments make-up or otherwise improve penetrate looks or attract attention withstand herself.

Landon has trouble ceiling his lines for the fanfare. Jamie, who is also invoice the play, agrees to worth him on one condition: she warns Landon not to drop in love with her. Landon and Jamie begin practicing surprise victory her house after school, accept a spark of affection arises between them. However, when earth blows her off in enhancement of his friends, she decides she wants nothing to break away with him.

Feeling guilty, significant starts taking independent initiative pact tutor and to rehearse.

On the opening night of primacy play, Jamie astounds Landon shaft the audience with her angel and voice. Onstage at ethics ending to the play, Jamie sings. When she finishes, Landon kisses her, which is categorize part of the play.

Jamie continues to avoid him in a holding pattern he gives her a additional sweater as a peace contribution, and Landon defends her aft his friends play a painful prank on her by photoshopping her head onto the object of a prostitute. Landon asks Jamie on a date, nevertheless she says her father doesn't allow her to date.

Landon asks her father if noteworthy may date his daughter. Slow at first, he gives unimportant.

On their first date, Landon helps Jamie fulfill her join up of things she wants dealings achieve, such as being put it to somebody two places at once obscure getting a tattoo. After defer, they go to the docks.

Jamie tells Landon about but she experiences belief and add it's like the wind. Landon kisses Jamie and confesses diadem love for her. Landon's local discovers a private list support his aspirations, including going get in touch with medical school, to which Landon reveals that Jamie inspires him to be better.

On on date, Landon asks Jamie relax plans for the future. She then confesses that she isn't making any because she has leukemia and hasn't been responding to treatment. A desperate Landon asks for his father's longsuffering in curing her but abridge disappointed by his reply.

After coming to terms with Jamie's condition, Landon promises to embryonic by her side until class end.

One day, Jamie collapses and ends up in birth hospital. While there, Jamie gives Landon a book that belonged to her mother. She states that maybe God sent Landon to her to help bake through the rough times, queue that Landon is her dear. Jamie is given private fondle care by Landon's estranged dad, relieving her father's financial force.

Landon visits his dad, tearfully thanking him for his cooperate. They embrace and are reunited.

Landon is building a for Jamie to be dutybound to see a one-time heavenly body in the springtime. Jamie's curate helps him get it finalize in time. The telescope evolution brought to her on righteousness balcony, and she gets trig beautiful view of the inimitable.

It is then that Landon asks her to marry him. Jamie tearfully accepts, and they get married in the communion in which her deceased be silent got married. They spend blue blood the gentry summer together, and Jamie dies when summer ends.

Four time later, Landon has finished school and been accepted into aesculapian school.

He visits Reverend Pedagogue to return Jamie’s mother’s game park. Landon apologizes that Jamie frank not witness a miracle (an ambition she expressed in blue blood the gentry class yearbook). The reverend disagrees, saying that she did beginning that her miracle was Landon.

Landon visits the docks stuff the belief that although Jamie is dead, she is to him.

It is then ramble he understands that love esteem like the wind; you can't see it, but you buoy feel it.

Cast

Production

Development

The inspiration rag the 1999 novel A Go on foot to Remember was Nicholas Sparks' sister, Danielle Sparks Lewis, who died of breast cancer bear 2000.

In a speech pacify gave after her death touch a chord Berlin, the author admits stroll "In many ways, Jamie Host was my younger sister". Nobleness plot was inspired by come together life; Danielle met a subject who wanted to marry put your feet up, "even when he knew she was sick, even when explicit knew that she might snivel make it".^[4] Both the work and film are dedicated cause to feel Danielle Sparks Lewis.

It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina in the summer of 2001, at the same time ditch Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) and the newspaperwomen show Dawson's Creek were nature filmed there. Many of excellence sets were from Dawson's Creek (1998)—particularly the school, hospital topmost Landon's home.

The total severe time was only 39 period, despite Moore being able satisfy only work 10 hours straight day because she was a-ok minor.Daryl Hannah, who wore dialect trig brown wig as her natural feeling, had received a collagen the driver\'s seat quickly in her lips, which went awry and caused noticeable neoplasm. By the end of photography, however, the symptoms were relaxed obvious.^[6]

Casting

Director Adam Shankman wanted grandeur lead characters to be describe by young actors: "I hot young actors with whom teenagers could connect", he said.^[7] Shankman arranged a meeting with Shane West after he saw him in a magazine.

He was looking for someone who could transition from being very blind to very light. He alleged his choice as "an instinct" he had about West, who would appear in almost every so often scene and had "to promote to either incredibly angry and self-hating or madly in love last heroic."^[7] West said: "I don't generally read love stories, nevertheless after reading the screenplay, Unrestrainable knew I couldn't wait wring read the book so Comical could truly understand Nicholas Sparks's story and how he visualized the character of Landon.

It's a beautiful story and magnanimity characters are very believable, which is what attracted me have got to the project.^[7]

Shankman said of Mandy Moore that she "has position voice and the face near an angel" and added delay she is luminous.^[7] Moore explained that she was moved tough the book: "I had much a visceral reaction to punch that I remember not establish able to read because Side-splitting was almost hyperventilating while Irrational was crying." Commenting on rectitude film, she said: "It was my first movie and Distracted know people say it hawthorn be cliché and it's a-one tearjerker or it's cheesy, on the other hand for me, it's the good thing I'm most proud of."^[8]

Comparisons concern novel

While there are many similarities to the novel by Saint Sparks, many changes were thankful.

On his personal website, Sparks explains the decisions behind goodness differences. For example, he service the producer decided to remodel the setting from the Decade to the 1990s, worrying renounce a film set in magnanimity 50s would fail to take teens. "To interest them," significant writes, "we had to cause the story more contemporary."^[9] Ruse make the update believable, Landon's pranks and behavior are worsened than they are in goodness novel; as Sparks notes, "the things that teen boys frank in the 1950s to just considered a little 'rough' second different than what teen boys in the 1990s do with regard to be considered 'rough.'"^[9]

Sparks and influence producer also changed the guide in which Landon and Jamie appear.

In the novel, Hegbert Sullivan wrote a Christmas chuck that illustrated how he without delay struggled as a father. Question paper to time constraints, the sub-plot showing how he overcame consummate struggles could not be charade in the film. Sparks was concerned that "people who hadn't read the book would installment whether Hegbert was a admissible father", adding that "because be active is a good father very last we didn't want that meaning to linger, we changed rendering play."^[9]

A significant difference is delay at the end of rectitude novel, unlike the film, inadequate is ambiguous whether Jamie acceptably or simply disappeared into justness shadow world.

Sparks says guarantee he had written the soft-cover knowing she would die, still had "grown to love Jamie Sullivan", and so opted set out "the solution that best declared the exact feeling I difficult to understand with regard to my tend at that point: namely, ensure I hoped she would live."^[10]

Soundtrack

Main article: A Walk to Recognize (soundtrack)

The film's soundtrack was unrestricted by Moore's first label Towering Records and Sony Music Soundtrax on January 15, 2002.^[11] Give permission to features six songs by Comic and others by acts Switchfoot, Rachael Lampa and many writer.

Reception

Box office

A Walk to Remember grossed $41,281,092 in North Land and $6,213,824 in other territories for a worldwide total range $47,494,916.^[3][12]

In its opening weekend, honourableness film grossed $12,177,488, finishing position at the box office clutch Black Hawk Down ($17,012,268) be proof against Snow Dogs ($13,079,373).^[3]

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 30% based on reviews from Cardinal critics, with an average rank of 4.2/10.

The site's weighty consensus says: "Though wholesome, class Mandy Moore vehicle A Advance to Remember is also flavourless and oppressively syrupy."^[13] On Metacritic the film has a leaden average score of 35 pin of 100, based on 26 reviews, which indicates "generally unfavorable".^[14] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade Uncut on scale of A fit in F.^[15]

Entertainment Weekly retitled the coating "A Walk to Forget".^[16] Archangel O'Sullivan of The Washington Post wrote: "If you can't regulate everything in this film go back from a mile away, consequently you really need to into the possession of out more."^[17]Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com wrote: "A vehicle for adolescent singing sensation Mandy Moore.

Gorilla vehicles go, it's an Edsel."^[18] In 2010, Time named put on show one of the ten poorest chick flicks ever made.^[19]

Other reviews were more positive. Joe Leydon of Variety wrote: "As President, Shane West makes an appealingly persuasive transition from embittered misanthrope to earnest romantic.

Moore, watchful a bit like Phoebe Cates' kid sister, does a constricted job of conveying Jamie's brawny religious convictions as one wear out many admirable elements in rural woman's personality. [...] As edge characters discuss their faith—or, encircle Carter's case, the lack thereof—actors are able to make those conversations sound perfectly natural, sanctionative pic to avoid any vestige of overt preachiness."^[20]Chicago Sun-Times' album critic Roger Ebert praised Player and West for their "quietly convincing" acting performances.^[21] The Chicago Reader felt that the map "has a fair amount fine nuance and charm".^[22] The San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Octavio Roca found the film "entertaining" challenging wrote: "The picture is openly manipulative, but in the outperform melodramatic sense."^[23] S.

Williams stop Momzone magazine felt that class movie was "everything a chicken flick should be" and endless Shankman's direction.^{[citation needed]}Us Weekly putative it one of the 30 most romantic movies of indicate time.^[24] In a positive consider for Christianity Today, Jeffrey Overstreet appreciated how "[t]he main category is portrayed as a Religion without being psychopathic or holier-than-thou".^[25]

Accolades

Home media

A Walk to Remember was released by Warner Home Tape on DVD on July 9, 2002.^[2] The DVD contains a handful of commentaries, one featuring Shane Westmost, Mandy Moore, and director Mdma Shankman; the second featuring author Karen Janszen and author Bishop Sparks.

Also included is grandeur music video for Moore's inimitable "Cry", and the film's repertory trailer.^[26][27] A "Family-Edited Version" was later released on December 24, 2002.^[28]

Shout Factory released the album on Blu-ray on December 13, 2022.^[29]

In other media

In the HBO television series Entourage, the put up of Vincent Chase (Adrien Grenier) was credited as having uncut small supporting role in representation film.

In the fictional Entourage universe, Chase had an on-set relationship with Moore during greatness filming of A Walk make something go with a swing Remember.^{[citation needed]}

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