All of the schmaltz and manipulative melodrama will make this a walk you'll probably want to run through and forget as quickly as possible.
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01/25/02
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A Walk to Remember (2002)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:25
Rotten:68
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Though wholesome, the Mandy Moore vehicle A Walk to Remember is also bland and oppressively syrupy.
Theatrical Release:Jan 25, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $41,090,572
Synopsis: 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.... [More]
Starring: Shane West, Mandy Moore, Daryl Hannah, Al Thompson
Director: Adam Shankman
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Reviews for A Walk to Remember
A story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously. It is also beautifully acted.
01/25/02
Personally, I would have preferred a little more restraint -- a film less stacked in one direction -- but you can't deny that this little movie has a big heart that's in the right place.
01/25/02
A gob of drivel so sickly sweet, even the eager consumers of Moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée.
01/25/02
The film follows their gentle courtship with such old-fashioned goodness that you can become a little misty.
01/25/02
Rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign.
01/25/02
Top CriticThe bland leading the bland.
01/25/02
Top CriticA flawed, guilty pleasure, especially if you don't mind your movies extra sweet.
01/25/02
Could have been crisper and punchier, but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies.
01/25/02
Top CriticThe characters and situations are so cliched, you think you're watching a sequel to the holiday spoof Not Another Teen Movie.
01/25/02
Plays like a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad TV show.
01/25/02
Plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas.
01/25/02
Top CriticJust when you think that everything has been neatly resolved, the movie drops a bomb that is jaw-droppingly cheap.
01/25/02
Since the movie is based on a Nicholas Sparks best seller, you know death is lurking around the corner, just waiting to spoil things.
01/25/02
IHOPs don't pile on this much syrup.
01/25/02
In their zeal to create a character who embodies a wholesome, positive adolescent ideal, the filmmakers have invented an 18-year-old girl with no self-doubt, no emotional weakness, no character flaws, and a crystal-clear complexion.
01/25/02
There's not enough saccharine (even in this film) to flavor Moore's performance above bland.
01/25/02
The kind of inspirational story that has the opposite effect. It puts you in a stupor.
01/25/02
Mainly inspires gaping yawns and eye-rolling smirks.
01/25/02
Top CriticGoo oozes without mercy.
01/25/02
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January 07, 2002:
Teenage pop star Moore plays Jamie Sullivan, a goody-goody who's the daughter of the local minister in a rural North Carolina town.
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