Instead of heading down to Cancun for a week with friends she chooses to help restore a house that was destroyed by a hurricane the fall before. Like all the women in Sparks’ books, she has a heart of gold. His visit coincides with the spring break of Savannah (Amanda Seyfried). John is a soldier on leave in the spring of 2001 to his coastal Carolina hometown. The movie stars Channing Tatum as John Tyree. Both men can layer on the heavy-handed sentiment like too much syrup filling a plate of pancakes. Hallstrom, who is no stranger to stories of sentiment, seems to be a good match for the likes of Sparks. Now, Lasse Hallstrom has adapted an uneven effort from Sparks’ book, “Dear John.” This isn’t to say he reaches those heights, but merely to say that his stories seem predestined, because his characters enact predetermined fates. Nicholas Sparks writes in the form of Greek tragedy.
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