| A Walk to Remember | |
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| Directed by | Adam Shankman |
| Produced by | Denise Di Novi Hunt Lowry |
| Written by | Nicholas Sparks (novel) Karen Janszen (screenplay) |
| Starring | Shane West Mandy Moore |
| Music by | Mervyn Warren |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Editing by | Emma E. Hickox |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 23, 2002 |
| Running time | 102 mins |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11,800,000 |
| Gross revenue | $47,494,916 |
A Walk to Remember is a 2002 romance film based on the 1999 romance novel with the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The movie stars pop singer Mandy Moore and Shane West. The movie was directed by Adam Shankman and produced by Denise DiNovi and Hunt Lowry for Warner Bros. The novel, written by Sparks, is set in the 1950s while the film is set in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
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When a prank on a fellow high school student goes wrong, popular but rebellious Landon Lawrence Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as tutoring disadvantaged children and performing in the drama club's spring musical. At these functions, he is forced to interact with quiet, bookish Jamie Elizabeth Sullivan (Mandy Moore), the only daughter of their church's pastor, and a girl he has known for many years but to whom he has rarely if ever spoken. Their differing social statures leave them worlds apart, despite their close physical proximity.
Landon has difficulty learning his lines for the spring play, so he asks Jamie to assist him. She decides to help him but under one condition: Landon must promise not to fall in love with her. He chuckles at the strange request, obviously doubting that he could ever fall in love with her.
Landon and Jamie begin practicing together at her house after school. As they spend more time together, a friendship begins to develop. Landon discovers that Jamie’s wish list of everything she aspires to accomplish in life includes befriending someone she doesn't like, getting a tattoo, being in two different places at once, and making a telescope so she can see a special comet that is coming. One day, Jamie approaches Landon at his locker, where he is hanging out with some of his friends. When Jamie asks Landon if they are still on for practice that afternoon he smirks and replies, "In your dreams." His friends laugh and Landon's smirk falters as Jamie feels betrayed and embarrassed. That afternoon, Landon arrives at Jamie's house, hoping that Jamie will still agree to help him. But she refuses to talk to him, eventually she does, and asks him in a sarcastically sweet voice if she wants to be "secret friends." She slams the door in his face when he agrees. Landon eventually learns the script by himself.
During the play, Jamie astounds Landon and the entire audience with her beauty and singing voice. Landon, clearly surprised and overcome with unexpected emotion,and kisses her at the end of her key song, "Only Hope." At the play, Landon is approached by his father, who we later learn walked out on him and his mother when he was very young. When he turns to go, his dad calls after him not to walk away. "You taught me how," he says simply, and leaves.
In the following days, Landon tries to get close to Jamie, but she repeatedly rejects him. The breaking point comes when a few of Landon's so-called friends play a malicious joke on Jamie that she lets him in. (The prank consisted of using a computer to edit Jamie's face onto a photo that was almost pornographic and putting it out on fliers, which the group then handed out.) She is about to cry in the middle of the cafeteria when Landon comes to her aid. He punches out one of his now ex-friends and literally turns his back on the group to take Jamie home. "We're through!" calls Dean, the guy Landon punched. "That's great," he says.
In his car at her house, he asks her out to dinner, but she replies that she is not allowed to date. He goes to her father in the church and asks him for permission. When her father says no, Landon apologizes for the way he has treated Jamie in the past and asks for her father to have faith in him. The man begrudgingly agrees, and Landon takes her out to dinner. Despite his reluctance at first, She convinces him to dance with her.
Landon then sets out to help her accomplish a few things on her wish list. He takes her to the state line and positions her over it in just the right way. When Jamie asks him what he's doing he tells her, "You're in two places at once." Her face lights up with joy as she realizes that Landon found a way to make her impossible dream a reality. He gives her a temporary tattoo of a butterfly, and they walk along a boardwalk. Jamie asks Landon how he could have such amazing moments and not believe. She explains her faith to him eloquently , "I might kiss you," he says . And he does. He then tells her that he loves her, but she doesn't reply right away. When he prompts her, all she can say is "I told you not to fall in love with me..."
As their relationship grows, Jamie's father confronts her. He tells her that her behavior is "sinful." She argues that she is in love with him, and her father looks her straight in the eye. "Then be fair to him, Jamie. Before things get worse." The audience does not immediately understand.
The couple meets up at the cemetery where Jamie goes to stargaze and they spend the night waiting for Pluto to rise. Meanwhile Landon tells Jamie that he had a star named for her, she tells him that she loves him for the first time, and he finally realizes something that he has been trying to find out for a while: at the top of Jamie's wish-list is to marry in the church where her parents were married.
One evening, Jamie finally tells Landon that she has terminal leukemia and has stopped responding to treatments. Landon is initially upset over this, but Jamie says that the reason why she didn't tell him was because she was moving on with her life and using the time she had left. She says that she was doing fine until they fell in love. Jamie starts to break down as she says to Landon, "I do not need a reason to be angry with God," and runs away.
Landon goes to his father's house and asks him to help Jamie. His father hesitates a bit, as leukemia is not exactly his specialty, and says that he needs to examine Jamie and know her medical history before he could do anything. Landon responds by leaving, angry at his father for not being able to help. In the car on the way home, he tears up as the situation sinks in.
Eric, Landon's best friend who had also participated in the prank on Jamie, comes and tells him how sorry he is and that he hadn't understood. Landon leaves dozens of flowers on Jamie's doorstep and asks her father to tell her that he's "not going anywhere." The pair makes up soon after.
Jamie's cancer gets worse until she collapses in her father's arms. He rushes her to the hospital where he meets Landon. Landon doesn't leave Jamie's side until her father practically has to pry him away. Jamie's father sits by her and says, "If I've kept you too close, it's because I wanted to keep you longer." Jamie tells her father that she loves him so much and for the first time since her mother's death, her father breaks down in tears.
The next day, Landon comes to the hospital and sees Jamie being wheeled out of the ward. He asks Jamie what's going on and she replies by asking him to thank his father for the help. Landon asks Jamie's father what she means. He tells him that Landon's father is going to pay for private homecare for Jamie. Landon is stunned, and later in that night, he knocks on his father's front door. His father answers. Landon whispers "thank you" and his father hugs him. With all the exhaustion and fear over Jamie's situation and years of hurt about his parent's divorce on his shoulders, Landon breaks down in tears in his dad's arms.
Landon continues to fulfill various wishes on Jamie's list, such as building her a telescope so she can see a special comet that is coming. Her father, who at first didn't approve of him (but later changes his mind after seeing Landon watch over Jamie), helps out, as does Dean. Belinda, Landon's ex-girlfriend who originally proposed the prank, also apologizes. After Jamie sees the comet through the telescope, Landon proposes marriage and Jamie accepts. With the wedding, Landon has completed everything on Jamie’s wish-list, and then she died months after their wedding.
Four years later, Landon visits Jamie's father and tells him he has finished college and has been accepted into medical school. He then gives Jamie's father a book that Jamie had given to him, and now he was giving it to Jamie's dad. He tells Jamie's father that he is sorry he could not grant Jamie's ambition to witness a miracle before she died. Her father replies that Jamie did see a miracle. It was him. In the end, Landon remarks that Jamie not only saved his life—she taught him everything about life, hope and the long journey ahead. He ends his monologue by saying that Jamie and his love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." The film ends with Landon standing on a dock, staring into the sunset and he smiles as "Cry", a song by Mandy Moore plays into a fade.
The inspiration for A Walk to Remember was Nicholas Sparks' sister, Danielle Sparks Lewis, who died of cancer in 2000. In a speech he gave after her death in Berlin, the author admits that "In many ways, Jamie Sullivan was my younger sister". The plot was inspired by her life; Danielle met a man who wanted to marry her, "even when he knew she was sick, even when he knew that she might not make it".[1] Both the book and movie are dedicated to Danielle Sparks Lewis.
This movie was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina at the same time as Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) and the TV show Dawson's Creek were being filmed there. Many of the sets were from the TV show Dawson's Creek (1998) - particularly the school, hospital and Landon's home.[2] The total shooting time was only 39 days, despite Mandy Moore being able to only work 10 hours a day because she was a minor.[2] Daryl Hannah wore a brown wig, over pink hair from another movie, that closest matched Shane West's hair in the movie when playing her character. Hannah also had collagen problems which made her lips swollen. By the end of the movie, however, the symptoms were less obvious.[3]
The film opened at #3 at the U.S. Box office raking in $12,177,488 USD in its opening weekend, behind Snow Dogs and Black Hawk Down.
The film was generally met with negative reviews by critics. Entertainment Weekly retitled the movie "A Walk to Forget"[4] and the average rating of 92 professional reviews as compiled by Rotten Tomatoes is 4.1 out of 10.[5] However, A Walk to Remember found a warm reception in the Christian community due to the film's moral values; as one reviewer approvingly noted, "The main character is portrayed as a Christian without being psychopathic or holier-than-thou".[6] Roger Ebert praised Mandy Moore and Shane West for their "quietly convincing" acting performances.[7] Even though not a critical success, it was a modest box-office hit, earning $41,281,092 in the United States alone,[8] and a sleeper hit in Asia. The total revenue generated worldwide was $47,494,916. The film has proven to be a common favorite amongsts teenagers.[citation needed]
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Result |
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| 2002 | MTV Movie Awards | Breakthrough Female Performance | won by Mandy Moore |
| 2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Film — Choice Breakout Performance, Actress | won by Mandy Moore |
| 2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Film — Choice Chemistry (Moore/West) | won |
| 2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Film — Choice Actress, Drama/Action Adventure | nominated for Mandy Moore (lost to Natalie Portman) |
Moore beat out fellow pop star Britney Spears, who starred in Crossroads, to win two Teen Choice Awards. Moore was also nominated for "Film — Choice Actress, Drama/Action Adventure" but lost to Natalie Portman for her role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
At the MTV Movie Awards, Moore won the "Breakthrough Female Performance" for her role.
The movie's soundtrack features five songs by Mandy Moore and others by acts Switchfoot, Rachael Lampa and many more.
The lead song "Cry" was originally released on Moore's second studio album Mandy Moore. The soundtrack also includes two versions of Switchfoot's song "Only Hope" including the version Moore sang in the film.
Mandy Moore's manager Jon Leshay, the musical supervisor for A Walk To Remember, "instantly wanted" Switchfoot's music to be a vital part of the movie after hearing them. He later became Switchfoot's manager.[9] When they were approached to do the film, the band was unfamiliar with Moore or her music (despite her status as a pop star with several hits on the charts). Before their involvement with A Walk to Remember, Switchfoot was only recognized in their native San Diego and in Contemporary Christian music circles, but have since gained mainstream recognition, with a double platinum album, The Beautiful Letdown which included hits such as Meant to Live and Dare You to Move.
Track listing:
Complete Listing of Music in the Movie[10]
While there are many similarities to the novel by Nicholas Sparks, many changes were made. On his personal website, Sparks explains the decisions behind the differences. For example, he and the producer decided to update the setting from the 1950s to the 1990s, worrying that a movie set in the 50s would fail to draw teens. "To interest them," he writes, "we had to make the story more contemporary." To make the update believable, Landon's pranks and behavior are worse than they are in the novel; as Sparks notes, "the things that teen boys did in the 1950s to be considered a little 'rough' are different than what teen boys in the 1990s do to be considered 'rough.'"
Sparks and the producer also changed the play in which Landon and Jamie appear. In the novel, Hegbert wrote a Christmas play that illustrated how he once struggled as a father. However, due to time constraints, the sub-plot showing how he overcame his struggles could not be included in the movie. Sparks was concerned that "people who hadn't read the book would question whether Hegbert was a good father", adding that "because he is a good father and we didn't want that question to linger, we changed the play."[11]
A significant difference is that at the end of the novel, unlike the movie, it is ambiguous whether Jamie died even though during the 1950s cancer meant death. Sparks says that he had written the book knowing she would die, yet had "grown to love Jamie Sullivan", and so opted for "the solution that best described the exact feeling I had with regard to my sister at that point: namely, that I hoped she would live."[12] In the novel, Landon's father is a congressman, but in the film he is a cardiologist who helps Jamie with her illness. Due to his career, he had enough money to pay Jamie's home medical attention.
In addition, there was no mention of the homecoming dance in the movie. In the book, after being elected as the student body president, Landon was made to attend the homecoming dance as "it was mandatory". However, as he had just broken up with his girlfriend, Angela Clark, he was left with little choice and had to ask Jamie to go to the dance with him. In return, Jamie asked Landon "to promise he won't fall in love with". In the movie, the same line was mentioned when Landon asked Jamie to practice his lines with him instead.
Smaller differences also exist, such as when Jamie gives Landon her mother's book in the movie, she says "Don't worry, it's not a Bible". In the novel Jamie does give him her mother's Bible with her favorite passages underlined. In the novel, Landon joins the school play after he is asked by Jamie to do so; in the movie he is forced to be in the play. In the novel Jamie doesn't drive but on the movie she does. In the novel Jamie wears pants when she is working around the house but on the movie she doesn't.In the novel, Jamie often ties her hair in a bun, and lets it down on special occasions such as the play. However, in the movie, Jamie's hair was either tied in a pony tail or let down most of the time. In the novel both Landon and Jamie dance well but in the movie only Jamie dances well and Landon, who is a bad dancer, later learns from his mother for Jamie.
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File:A Walk To Remember Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Adam Shankman |
| Produced by |
Denise Di Novi Hunt Lowry |
| Written by |
Nicholas Sparks (novel) Karen Janszen |
| Starring |
Shane West Mandy Moore |
| Music by | Mervyn Warren |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Editing by | Emma E. Hickox |
| Studio |
Gaylord Films Di Novi Pictures Pandora Cinema |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | January 25, 2002 |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11.8 million |
| Gross revenue | $47,494,916 |
A Walk to Remember is a 2002 American romance film based on the 1999 romance novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The movie stars Shane West and pop singer/actress Mandy Moore. The film was directed by Adam Shankman and produced by Denise Di Novi and Hunt Lowry for Warner Bros. The novel, written by Sparks, is set in the 1950s while the film is set in 1998.
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After a hazing incident goes wrong, popular but rebellious Landon Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is participation in various after-school activities, including the spring musical, where he meets quiet, bookish Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), the only daughter of their church's pastor, (Peter Coyote). Landon has difficulty learning his lines, so asks Jamie to assist him. She decides to help him but under one condition: Landon must promise not to fall in love with her.
Landon and Jamie begin practicing together at her house after school. As they spend more time together, a friendship begins to develop. Landon discovers Jamie’s wishlist of everything she aspires to accomplish in life, which includes befriending someone she doesn't like, getting a tattoo, being in two different places at once, and making a telescope. However, she doesn't tell him her number one wish. One day, Jamie approaches Landon when he is hanging out with some of his friends. When Jamie asks if they are still on for practice that afternoon, he smirks and replies, "In your dreams". His friends laugh, and Landon's smirk falters as Jamie feels betrayed and embarrassed. That afternoon, Landon arrives at Jamie's house in the hope that she will still agree to help him, but she refuses to let him in. Landon eventually learns the script by himself.
In the following days, Landon tries to get close to Jamie, but she repeatedly rejects him. The breaking point comes when a few of Landon's so-called friends play a malicious joke on Jamie (The prank consisted of a photoedit of Jamie's face onto an almost pornographic image and its distribution). She is about to cry in the middle of the cafeteria when Landon comes to her aid, punching one of his now ex-friends and apologizing to Jamie while comforting her (which she accepts), calling them "animals".
In his car at her house, he asks her out to dinner, but she replies that she is not allowed to date. He goes to her father in the church and asks him for permission. He begrudgingly agrees, and Landon takes her out to dinner. From that night forward, the two begin to fall in love, as Landon helps her accomplish things on her wish list. For example, he takes her to the state line, where she is "in two places at once," and gives her a temporary tattoo of a butterfly. He later has a star named after her, and learns that her number one wish is to marry in the church where her parents were married.
As their relationship grows, Jamie finally reveals to Landon that she has leukemia and has stopped responding to treatments. He is initially upset, but she says that the reason why she didn't tell him was because she was moving on with her life and using the time she had left. Jamie starts to break down as she says, "I do not need a reason to be angry with God" and runs away.
Eric (Al Thompson), who was Landon's best friend, but had also participated in the prank on Jamie, comes by and tells him how sorry he is and that he hadn't understood. Landon leaves dozens of flowers on Jamie's doorstep and asks her father to tell her that he's "not going anywhere". The pair makes up soon after.
Jamie's cancer gets worse until she collapses one day. Her father rushes her to the hospital where he meets Landon. The next day, Landon comes to the hospital and sees Jamie being wheeled out of the ward. He asks what's going on and she replies by asking him to thank his father for the help. Apparently Landon's father arranged to pay for private home care for Jamie.
Landon continues to fulfill various wishes on Jamie's list, including building her telescope. Her father, who now approves of him, helps out. After Jamie sees the comet through the telescope, Landon proposes and Jamie accepts. They marry in the church where her parents were married. With the wedding, Landon has completed everything on Jamie’s wishlist. She then dies months after their wedding.
Four years later, Landon visits Jamie's father and tells him he has finished college and has been accepted into medical school. He then gives Jamie's father a book that Jamie had given to him. He tells her father that he is sorry he could not grant Jamie's ambition to witness a miracle before she died. Her father replies that Jamie did see a miracle. "It was you," he says with a fatherly smile.
In the end, Landon remarks that Jamie not only saved his life — she taught him everything about life, hope, faith and the long journey ahead. He ends his monologue by saying that Jamie and his love is like the wind. "I can't see it, but I can feel it." The film ends with Landon standing on a dock, staring into the sunset and smiling, as "Cry" (by Mandy Moore) plays into a fade.
The inspiration for A Walk to Remember was Nicholas Sparks' sister, Danielle Sparks Lewis, who died of cancer in 2000. In a speech he gave after her death in Berlin, the author admits that "In many ways, Jamie Sullivan was my younger sister". The plot was inspired by her life; Danielle met a man who wanted to marry her, "even when he knew she was sick, even when he knew that she might not make it".[1] Both the book and movie are dedicated to Danielle Sparks Lewis.
This movie was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina at the same time as Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) and the TV show Dawson's Creek were being filmed there. Many of the sets were from the TV show Dawson's Creek (1998) - particularly the school, hospital and Landon's home.[2] The total shooting time was only 39 days, despite Mandy Moore being able to only work 10 hours a day because she was a minor.[2] Daryl Hannah wore a brown wig, over pinc hair from another movie, that closest matched Shane West's hair in the movie when playing her character. Hannah also had collagen problems which made her lips swollen. By the end of the movie, however, the symptoms were less obvious.[3]
The film opened at #3 at the U.S. box office raking in $12,177,488 USD in its opening weekend, behind Snow Dogs and Black Hawk Down.
The film was generally met with negative reviews by critics. Entertainment Weekly retitled the movie "A Walk to Forget"[4] and the average rating of 101 professional reviews as compiled by Rotten Tomatoes is 4.1 out of 10.[5] However, A Walk to Remember found a warm reception in the Christian community due to the film's moral values; as one reviewer approvingly noted, "The main character is portrayed as a Christian without being psychopathic or holier-than-thou".[6] Roger Ebert praised Mandy Moore and Shane West for their "quietly convincing" acting performances.[7] Even though not a critical success, it was a modest box-office hit, earning $41,281,092 in the United States alone,[8] and a sleeper hit in Asia. The total revenue generated worldwide was $47,494,916.
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Result |
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| 2002 | MTV Movie Awards | Breakthrough Female Performance | won by Mandy Moore |
| 2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Film — Choice Breakout Performance, Actress | won by Mandy Moore |
| 2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Film — Choice Chemistry (Moore/West) | won |
| 2002 | Teen Choice Awards | Film — Choice Actress, Drama/Action Adventure | nominated for Mandy Moore (lost to Natalie Portman) |
Moore beat out fellow pop star Britney Spears, who starred in Crossroads, to win two Teen Choice Awards. Moore was also nominated for "Film - Choice Actress, Drama/Action Adventure" but lost to Natalie Portman for her role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
At the MTV Movie Awards, Moore won the "Breakthrough Female Performance" for her role.
The movie's soundtrack features five songs by Mandy Moore and others by acts Switchfoot, Rachael Lampa and many more.
The lead song "Cry" was originally released on Moore's second studio album Mandy Moore. The soundtrack also includes two versions of Switchfoot's song "Only Hope" including the version Moore sang in the film.
Mandy Moore's manager, Jon Leshay, the musical supervisor for A Walk to Remember, "instantly wanted" Switchfoot's music to be a vital part of the movie after hearing them. He later became Switchfoot's manager.[9] When they were approached to do the film, the band was unfamiliar with Moore or her music (despite her status as a pop star with several hits on the charts). Before their involvement with A Walk to Remember, Switchfoot was only recognized in their native San Diego and in Contemporary Christian music circles, but have since gained mainstream recognition, with a double platinum album, The Beautiful Letdown which included hits such as Meant to Live and Dare You to Move.
Complete Listing of Music in the Movie[10]
While there are many similarities to the novel by Nicholas Sparks, many changes were made. On his personal website, Sparks explains the decisions behind the differences. For example, he and the producer decided to update the setting from the 1950s to the 1990s, worrying that a movie set in the 50s would fail to draw teens. "To interest them," he writes, "we had to make the story more contemporary." To make the update believable, Landon's pranks and behavior are worse than they are in the novel; as Sparks notes, "the things that teen boys did in the 1950s to be considered a little 'rough' are different than what teen boys in the 1990s do to be considered 'rough.'"
Sparks and the producer also changed the play in which Landon and Jamie appear. In the novel, Hegbert wrote a Christmas play that illustrated how he once struggled as a father. However, due to time constraints, the sub-plot showing how he overcame his struggles could not be included in the movie. Sparks was concerned that "people who hadn't read the book would question whether Hegbert was a good father", adding that "because he is a good father and we didn't want that question to linger, we changed the play."[11]
A significant difference is that at the end of the novel, unlike the movie, it is ambiguous whether Jamie died even though during the 1950s cancer meant death. Sparks says that he had written the book knowing she would die, yet had "grown to love Jamie Sullivan", and so opted for "the solution that best described the exact feeling I had with regard to my sister at that point: namely, that I hoped she would live."[12]
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A Walk to Remember is a 2002 film about two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter (West) and Jamie Sullivan (Moore), who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.
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Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.
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Landon: Jamie... I love you. [long pause] Landon: Now would be the time to say something. Jamie: I told you not to fall in love with me.
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