Landon Carter and his gang of fellow misfits open the story by hazing another high school student into their group. The production values are high, and the actors give very good performances. This is the second screenplay adapted from one of his books.

More Detail:Ī WALK TO REMEMBER is a romantic teenage tearjerker based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. (CC, BB, Ro, LL, V, A, M) Christian worldview with solid moral elements, including strong abstinence message & boy honors Christian girl’s commitment to abstinence, but with some Romantic notions regarding male/female relationships & human love between 19 obscenities (no “f” words), a couple of muffled profanities & some sexual vulgarities & innuendoes, plus some implied urinating gang of “tough kids” trespass, seriously hurt another teen during prank & leave him to be found by police, evading police, gang wrecks car, people lie to police to escape charges, brief fisticuffs girl invites boy into her home while parents are away insinuating they’ve done so before (he declines asserting that they are no longer dating), & a fully clothed boy mocks sexual activity while reading romantic script aloud plus passionate kissing & clean sexual tension glimpse of altered image of thong bikini clad model with lead characters’ face superimposed onto it alcohol use no smoking and, bitter conflict between boy & father who left both the boy & his mother (eventually forgiven) & the “good girl” purposely omits an important element of the full truth to her father. Still, the movie shows that Christian kindness can make a difference in other people’s lives Content: From a Christian standpoint, however, the most disappointing thing is the Romantic notion that, somehow, human love can conquer what’s bad and “save” someone from immorality. While doing his penance, Landon finds himself drawn into Jamie’s moral universe.Īlthough there are some unresolved subplots, the production values in A WALK TO REMEMBER are high, and the actors all give very good performances, including the two leads, Shane West and pop star Mandy Moore. There, Landon meets Jamie, a nerdy pastor’s daughter with upstanding, uncompromising Christian morals. For disciplinary purposes, the principal assigns him to a theatre class and extra time at school on weekends as a tutor. Though Landon evades arrest by lying to the police about his involvement in the incident, the school principal finds empty beer bottles as evidence of Landon’s continued slide into debauchery. Landon Carter and his gang of fellow misfits open the story by hazing another high school student into their group, which results in physical harm to the boy. A WALK TO REMEMBER is a romantic teenage tearjerker based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks.

Book review of a walk to remember