Safe Haven
2013, Romance/Drama, 1h 55m
147 Reviews 50,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Schmaltzy, predictable, and melodramatic, Safe Haven also suffers from a ludicrous plot twist, making for a particularly ignominious Nicholas Sparks adaptation. Read critic reviews
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Alex Wheatley
Katie Feldman
Kevin Tierney
Josh
Lexi
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Critic Reviews for Safe Haven
All Critics (147) | Top Critics (51) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (127)
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How long can writer Nicholas Sparks trade off his iconic blub-fest The Notebook?
September 5, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
A movie whose punch line is so delightfully absurd that even after you pretty much know what's coming you spit out your Pepsi anyway.
January 3, 2014 | Full Review… -
Keeping up with the movie's inane plot twists makes for a capricious good time, but an unimaginative denouement turns the whole thing into a fool's errand.
March 7, 2013 | Full Review… -
To this writer, it suggests one of those evasive US TV commercials for incontinence treatments or rheumatism therapies.
March 1, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
Unfortunately Hough is not really up to the part and Duhamel isn't much better than a nice-looking block of wood.
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As ever with a Sparks story, the action takes place in a sugary vision of small-town America that does not correspond with the real world at any point.
February 28, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Safe Haven
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Oct 05, 2016Save Haven is a normal Nicholas Sparks movie - damaged girl finding love with a good looking widower - even in the face of the corrupt cop ex-husband hunting her. I didn't like the last five minutes of the movie - too much Stephen-King-like.Red L Super Reviewer
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Jun 08, 2016An abused wife flees her sadistic cop-husband and learns to love again with a widower and his kids in what could be a Lifetime movie - complete with big twist ending! - save for the big name actors and director. Julianne Hough shows incredible vibrancy and emotional range out on the dance floor, but in summoning bodily restraint for a film role, she becomes a personality vacuum. Josh Duhamel seems at home enough as the hunky and jovial single dad, and David Lyons really creeps it up as the corrupt and deranged abuser, hot on his wife's trail. The movie is heavy on the folksy charm of a seaside tourist town and only skin-deep with the abuse recovery, but it's still guiltily watchable.Alice S Super Reviewer
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Sep 22, 2014Was enjoying it and then a stupid cheesy ending made me laugh and ruined the experience. The leads are appealing enough and it did get suspenseful but then it got too cute for its own good. Date Movie night became a bust and my wife felt the same way. 09-21-2014Christopher O Super Reviewer
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Jul 26, 2014I had a mixed to negative reaction to the film. It felt like I was watching 2 movies that didn't connect well (the romance and the husband stalking wife). The film needed a major rewrite. The tone was also off. The film reminded me of movies like Sleeping With the Enemy, Enough, An Unfinished Life, and Message in a Bottle. The big confrontation at the end seemed very predictable and not surprising. I thought Julianne Hough was miscast here. In my opinion, she didn't have a good on screen chemistry with Duhamel. Another actress in that role, would have probably done a better job. However, Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, and David Lyons are great in their roles.Sol C Super Reviewer
Safe Haven Quotes
| Jo: | To the woman my husband loves. If you're reading this, then it must be true, he loves you without a shadow of a doubt or else he wouldn't have given this to you. I can only hope that you feel the same way about him that he does about you. I wanted to write this letter because I wanted you to know one very important thing; I'm so glad he's found you. I only wish I could be there some how to met you, and maybe in some ways I am. Outside of my husband and my two beautiful children, you are the most important person in the world to me because I am gone and they are yours now. You need to take care of them; make them laugh, hold them when they cry, stand up for them, and teach them wrong from right. The thought of you it gives me hope; hope that Alex remembers what it feels like to be young and in love, hope that josh finds someone to fish with again, hope that Lexie has someone to help her on her wedding day. I hope that one day my family will be whole again. And most of all hope that somehow I'm there with all of you, watching over all of you. |
| Jo: | Promise me something Katie, you'll take a lot of pictures and only regret the ones that you didn't take. |
| Alex: | I'm so sorry... just please... stay. Just tell me the truth, just tell me what happened. I don't care, I'm not going to let him hurt you anymore. Listen to me, I'm in love with you. If you stay I promise there's no safer place in the world than with me. You don't have to be scared... I love you... please stay. |
| Katie: | At least I know when it's time to leave. |
| Jo: | You know your right Katie, but some of us don't have that choice |
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