A Walk to Remember (2002)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 75
Though wholesome, the Mandy Moore vehicle A Walk to Remember is also bland and oppressively syrupy.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 21
Though wholesome, the Mandy Moore vehicle A Walk to Remember is also bland and oppressively syrupy.
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The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Sentenced to community service and membership in his school's drama club, Landon is forced to seek help from Jamie Sullivan (pop singer Mandy Moore), the conservative, religious, plain-Jane daughter of the
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Cast
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Mandy Moore
Jamie Sullivan -
Shane West
Landon Carter -
Peter Coyote
Rev. Sullivan -
Daryl Hannah
Cynthia Carter -
Lauren German
Belinda -
Clayne Crawford
Dean -
Al Thompson
Eric -
Paz de la Huerta
Tracie -
Jonathan Parks Jordan
Walker -
Matt Lutz
Clay Gephardt -
David Andrews
Mr. Kelly -
David Lee Smith
Dr. Carter -
Marisa Miller
Ms. Garber -
Dean Mumford
Policeman -
Gordon Groddy
Choir singer -
Mervyn Warren
Pianist -
Paula Jones
Sally -
Anne Fletcher
School play dancer -
Cassidy Ladden
Choir singer -
Alan Butler
Security Guard -
Janie Barnett
Choir singer -
Elaine Caswell
Choir singer -
Vivian Cherry
Choir singer -
Robin Clark
Choir singer -
Frances E. Davis
Housekeeper -
Diva Gray
Choir singer -
Nikki Gregoroff
Choir singer -
Xavier Hernandez
Luis -
Seth Howard
Maitre D' -
Arlene Martell Martin
Choir singer -
Dino Muccio
Choir singer -
Kevin Osborne
Choir singer -
Jason Paige
Choir singer -
Willie Teacher
Choir singer -
Julia Ann West
Church lady -
Eddie Zimmerhoff
Erik Smith
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All Critics (103) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (75) | DVD (22)
This realist fairy tale of impossible love has a fair amount of nuance and charm.
It's an overwrought teen weepy, Terms of Endearment for the TRL crowd.
An adolescent romance we've seen a million times before.
Top CriticIt's sad that Moore's first major cinematic outing scrapes the bottom of the melodramatic barrel.
So boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it.
Just because A Walk to Remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls.
Adopts a breezy anti-cynicism as a pose, and then spends the rest of the time failing in the most spectacular way to competently execute it.
Too-syrupy re-tread of Love Story.
This is a great romantic tearjerker.
A shameless, compassionate tearjerker about hope, inspiration and courage.
For anyone under 13, free from cynicism and with a need to believe that 17 year-old boys aren't just after one thing, maybe this film rocks.
Succeeds modestly as a teen movie. Expect anything else from it and you'll be disappointed.
A monstrosity of a movie that I am all too eager to forget.
Those raised on idealized romances (the Ken and Barbie kind) where love conquers all will no doubt love this sappy tale.
[A] wretched teen dramedy.
A kind of low-rent version of Love Story with overt religious overtones...
'No one was expecting Remains of the Day but this film could have been more than just a Dawson's Creek stop gap.'
Wholly un-groundbreaking, deeply conservative, increasingly sentimental, but reflecting some of the best of those qualities.
This horrific teen romance-cum-weepie is best watched from between your fingers, or from under your seat, or perhaps standing outside the cinema looking in the opposite direction.
Director Shankman ditches character development in favour of delivering an exploitative date movie and dubiously conservative moral lesson.
Mandy Moore only has herself to blame for choosing such a tooth-rottingly sentimental weepie as this.
Seeing as how it's based on a weepy Nicholas Sparks novel, it's not surprising that this teen romantic drama is an almost unbearably weepy film.
A sermonizing and lifeless paean to teenage dullards.
Audience Reviews for A Walk to Remember
Super Reviewer
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- Landon Carter: Are you scared?
- Jamie Sullivan: To death.
- Landon Carter: It's not funny..
- Jamie Sullivan: I'm scared of not being with you..
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- Landon Carter: She makes me want to be different, better.
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- Jamie Sullivan: You know what I figured out today?
- Landon Carter: What?
- Jamie Sullivan: 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 Carter: I am sorry that she never got her miracle.
- Rev. Sullivan: She did. It was you.
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- Landon Carter: I might kiss you.
- Jamie Sullivan: I might be bad at it.
- Landon Carter: That's not possible.
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- Jamie Sullivan: It's like the wind. I can't... see it, but I feel it.
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If you are a romantic, this is the movie for you. But it is difficult to watch without an odd tear welling in your eyes.