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==Plot==
==Plot==
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John Tyree ([[Channing Tatum]]), a Staff Sergeant in the [[United States Army]] is lying on the ground in combat gear with multiple gunshot wounds to his body. Coins begin to fall over him as, in a voiceover, he recalls a childhood trip to the [[United States Mint|U.S. Mint]]. He compares himself to a coin in the United States Military, and states that the last thing he thought about before he blacked out was "you".

The story then flashes back to a beach, where John is on leave in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]], and he meets Savannah Lynn Curtis ([[Amanda Seyfried]]), a college student on spring break. Over the course of two weeks, Savannah and John fall in love. John meets Savannah's family, her neighbor, Tim Wheddon ([[Henry Thomas]]), and Tim's son Alan ([[Luke Benward]]) who has [[autism]].

Savannah meets John's father ([[Richard Jenkins]]), a reclusive man who seems to be obsessed with his coin collection (specifically [[Mule (coin)|mules]]), but her genuine interest draws him, to John's surprise. Savannah mentions to John that his father, like Alan, may have <!-- Asperger's only in the book. -->autism. This upsets John, who gets into a fight with Savannah's neighbor, Randy ([[Scott Porter]]) and, in the process, accidentally punches Tim. John apologizes to Tim, leaves Savannah a note, and then they spend one last day together, parting with, "I'll see you soon, then," rather than goodbye.

John and Savannah continue their relationship through letters, expecting to build a life together when he leaves the army. But the [[September 11 attacks]] make him reconsider, and he ultimately chooses to re-enlist. Over the next two years, the romance goes on, through their letters. After a time, John finds himself anxiously awaiting the next letter, but when it arrives it is a [[Dear John letter]], informing him that she has become engaged to someone else. John is so deeply depressed by the news that he burns all of Savannah's letters.

Despite being wounded and encouraged to return home, John re-enlists. After four more years and many missions, while waiting to receive orders on his unit's next deployment, John is informed that his father had a stroke. When John arrives at the hospital he learns that his father is still alive but in grave condition. Feeling guilty, he asks the doctor if the outcome would have been different if he had been there earlier but the doctor says no. John writes a letter to his father, which he reads to him at the hospital; John's voiceover at the beginning of the film was from this letter, in which he told his father that the first thing to cross his mind after he was shot was coins, and the last thing to cross his mind before he lost consciousness was his dad, ultimately the most important person in his life. Shortly thereafter, his father dies.

John goes to visit Savannah and is shocked to find that she has married Tim and is living with him and his son, Alan. He learns that she had to abandon her dream of a riding camp for kids with autism because of Tim's fight against [[lymphoma]], and John goes with her to visit him in the hospital. Tim tells John that Savannah still loves him. That night, John asks Savannah why she did not even call him and she says it was because just hearing his voice would make her change her mind. She asks John to say "I'll see you soon" like they always do, but instead, he just says goodbye. He makes a decision to sell all of his father's coin collection except the mule that John found, to raise money which could help Tim in his treatment. Months later John receives a letter from Savannah telling him that Tim died after two months and "I'll see you soon, then." The film then skips forward to show John as a civilian with facial hair, carrying his bike, as he sees Savannah in a coffee shop. They make eye-contact and the last scene ends with the both of them hugging.


==Cast==
==Cast==

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Dear John
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLasse Hallström
Written byJamie Linden
Story byNicholas Sparks (novel)
Produced byMarty Bowen
Wyck Godfrey
Ryan Kavanaugh
StarringChanning Tatum
Amanda Seyfried
Henry Thomas
Richard Jenkins
Scott Porter
CinematographyTerry Stacey
Edited byKristina Boden
Music byDeborah Lurie
Production
company
Distributed byScreen Gems
Release date
  • February 5, 2010 (2010-02-05)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryTemplate:FilmUS
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25,000,000[1]
Box office$112,157,433[1]

Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama-war film starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. It was released theatrically in North America on February 5, 2010. The film was directed by Lasse Hallström, and it is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's novel of the same name. It follows the life of a soldier (Channing Tatum) after he falls in love with a young woman (Amanda Seyfried). They decide to exchange letters to each other after he is deployed to the war. The movie was filmed in 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Despite receiving negative reviews, the film made a strong box office performance, knocking off Avatar after seven weekends in first place and grossing a total of $112,157,433 worldwide. The film was released on May 25, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray.

Plot

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Cast

Soundtrack

  1. Joshua Radin and Schuyler Fisk – "Paperweight"
  2. The Swell Season – "The Moon"
  3. 311 – "Amber"
  4. The Donkeys – "Excelsior Lady"
  5. Wailing Souls – "Things & Time"
  6. Amanda Seyfried and Marshall Altman – "Little House"
  7. Fink – "This Is the Thing"
  8. Rachel Yamagata and Dan Wilson – "You Take My Troubles Away"
  9. Deborah Lurie – Dear John Theme
  10. Snow Patrol ft. Martha Wainwright – "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" (Bonus Track)
Other songs from the movie not on the CD soundtrack
  • Ryan Adams – "Answering Bell"
  • Amanda Seyfried – "Little House" (Acoustic)
  • Ozomatli – "Saturday Night"
  • Brian Tichy – "Dead in Your Tracks"
  • Gaye Tolan Hatfield – "Let Her Gift Be Me"
  • Brad Hatfield – "Ballroom Ballad"

Music

The score to Dear John was composed by Deborah Lurie, who recorded her score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Warner Brothers Eastwood Scoring Stage.[2] A soundtrack album containing songs was released on February 2, 2010 from Relativity Media Group, and a score album was released digitally the same day.[citation needed]

Awards and Nominations

Year Award Category Work Result
2011 People's Choice Awards[citation needed] Favorite Drama Movie Dear John Nominated
2010 MTV Movie Awards Best Male Performance Channing Tatum Nominated
2010 MTV Movie Awards Best Female Performance Amanda Seyfried Nominated
2011 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie -Drama Dear John Nominated

Seyfried and Tatum also received Teen Choice Award and MTV Movie Award nominations for their performances.

Reception

Critical response

The film receives generally negative reviews by critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 28% of 95 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.3 out of 10.[3] Among Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics", which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 20%, based on a sample of 25 reviews. The site's consensus is that "Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing."[4] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 1–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 43% based on 33 reviews.[5]

Box office

Dear John debuted as the No. 1 movie with $30,468,614 in its opening weekend,[6] knocking off Avatar after seven weekends in first place. The film was the second highest debut for a film opening Super Bowl weekend, just shy of Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert in 2008.[7] It is reportedly the best debut for a film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel.[7] By 2011 it had generated $114,977,104 at the box office.

Home media

The film was released on May 25, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray. It includes an alternate ending in its special features that is more in keeping with the ending of the novel, leaving the viewer to decide which is a more appropriate ending to the film.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Dear John (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  2. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (2010-01-25). "Deborah Lurie scores Dear John". ScoringSessions.com. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  3. ^ "Dear John Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  4. ^ "Dear John: Top Critics". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  5. ^ "Dear John (2010): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
  6. ^ "SUPER BOWL OPENINGS". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  7. ^ a b Brandon Gray (2010-02-08). "Weekend Report: 'Dear John' Delivers, 'Avatar' Flies High Again". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2010-02-09.

External links

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