A Walk to Remember (2002)

Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart in this coming-of-age story based on the bestselling book. Teen idol Shane West and multiplatinum recording star Mandy Moore star as two high schoolers -- she a straitlaced preacher's daughter and he an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391163299 Manufacturer No: 116329 Product Description

 Awesome Teen Movie
We watched this in English class, and I loved it. It is heartfelt with moments of humor. It was nice to see that the main character didn't stay a jerk. We were happy to watch this instead of writing. May 2, 2008

 A very heart touching movie!!
This starts out to be a comedy, but has the movie goes on it becomes a love story.
I first saw this movie on "TBS", but I would come in about half way through the movie, so I decided to get the movie on DVD.
This movie remind me of my ex-wife when we first met.
She had cancer, and I told her if I had to carry her in my arms, during our wedding I would.
These days she in remission.
This movie is a very good movie.
I rate this movie a 10 from 1to10!! April 27, 2008

 Great Movie
This is a wonderful movie. I would recommend that you get out a box of tissues. April 23, 2008

 This is a keeper
This is a good, clean movie.. a good mother/daughter movie. But be warned, it's a tear-jerker. Even so, you'll want to watch it more than once. It's just that good. Definately touches the heart. For any age. I'm 51 and like to watch it once or twice every year. April 2, 2008

 lugubrious and badly directed, but touching.
Technically, this film is putrid. It suffers from every hollywood sin imagineable. Characters are poorly developed, the plot is choppy and inconsistent, the cliches are utterly blatant, and the movie is predictable. In short, it is your average syrupy dip of cotton candy fluff.

Yet, I am ashamed to say that there is something redeeming about this film. There is a certain poignant, hidden honesty. Perhaps the movie pulls on the universal strings of human nature in the right way.

You have the damsel in distress. The bad dude who saves her, and, in turn, is saved. The father who hates him, but grows to appreciate him. Oh, and sundry bathos filled scenes that blatantly attempt to pull the tears from your lacrimal glands.

Like an under-ager sneeking cigarrette, this movie is a guilty pleasure. It is hard to hate Mandy Moore's character (however inconsistent her development). She is uber-innocent, exists in a ethereal world, and is picked on by all of the people you hated in high-school. She gives this film what life it has. The viewer feels a certain attraction to her-even if this attraction is contrived in formulaic fashion.

One must note the irony here. The movie is making a moral point of telling you that it is not cool to pick on dorks, geeks, or what have you. Yet, in order to make us feel guilty for picking on the weak and meek, they choose a beautiful, lustrous young woman. Who would pick on her?! I guess it would not have the same resonance if they picked an ugly, importunate dork. Owell, such are the foibles of mankind.

At any rate, I found it hard to despise this mawkish flick despite its blatant limitations. Perhaps, in some quixotic universe, unalloyed love and redemption do exist. Perhaps pure salvation is possible. At the least, sane humans hope for such things. To paraphrase a classic quote from the movie, hope is like the wind, you can't see it but you can sure feel it!! (facetiousness intended)

To all the lugubrious souls in the world, it might be alright to spend a few hours watching this film. Your time could be spent doing worse things. March 23, 2008

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