Film Review Title : A Walk To Remember Genre : Romantic Drama Director : Adam Shankman Year : 2002 Duration : 101 minutes Stars : Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Darryl Hannah.

A walk to remember is teen love story that based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. How its feel if someone who changes your life meet death? The tragic thing happened to Landon Carter (Shane West). The director Adam Shankman adapt this novel by Nicholas Sparks with the result that a romantic and sad movie.

Landon Carter (Shane West) is a big name in the school in-crowd – an aimless, moody, troublemaker who breezes through school making the most of his popularity. In other side, a girl named Jamie Sullivan has different characteristics with Landon. She’s stolid and charitable girl, also religious person. Her father is clergyman, so it proper if her character descend to her father.

One night, Landon dares a boy to jump into a reservoir in order to join his gang. When the prank goes wrong with the boy ending up in hospital, Landon is given community service to do, he is assigned to tutor students on the weekends and to participate in the Drama Club's spring play. This throws him together with Jamie, a girl who he has known all his life but ignored.

Struggling with the lines of the school play, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. In spending time together, Landon learns to worry less about what others think of him and more about doing what he feels is right. The two become friends and a relationship develops. However, Jamie has a very big secret she must keep from Landon, one that will get in the way of their romance and destroy their future together.

The “teen troublemaker meets good girl and falls in love” story has been done many times, but this is a perfect example of the genre. Both, West and Moore produce likeable characters with depth. Starting out as a lightweight teen movie, it develops into a fine right-of-passage fable which is surprisingly worthwhile.

It’s been done before, of course, but this movie does it much better than most. Those who love teen romances will enjoy this film, but don’t overlook it if the genre doesn’t usually appeal. This film will please a much wider audience than one might expect, including adults and even the men maybe need a tissue for the ending.