A Walk to Remember: Book vs. Movie
Adam Shankman’s 2002 film A Walk to Remember adapts Nicholas Sparks’s 1999 novel. Mandy Moore and Shane West play Jamie and Landon, teenagers whose growing relationship challenges the expectations of his friends and her father.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Nicholas Sparks
- Year
- 1999
- Pages
- 224Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 4 hr 36 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Frank Muller
Looking back on his final year of high school in 1958, Landon Carter recalls asking Jamie Sullivan to the homecoming dance because he needs a date. The minister’s daughter is someone he and his friends usually dismiss, but time spent together draws him into her church activities and concern for others. His embarrassment at being seen with her gives way to love, just as he begins to understand how much she has kept private.
- Director
- Adam Shankman
- Writer
- Karen Janszen
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 1 hr 38 min
- Cast
- Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah
- Genre
- coming-of-age, Drama, Romance, teen
- IMDb
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After a reckless prank leaves another teenager badly hurt, Landon Carter is required to tutor students and perform in the school play. He asks Jamie Sullivan, a minister’s daughter his friends mock, to help him learn his lines. Rehearsals turn into a relationship that puts him at odds with his old crowd, while Jamie’s guarded hopes for the future give him reasons to change his own.
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