Dear John: Book vs. Movie
Lasse Hallström’s Dear John (2010) stars Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as a soldier and a student trying to sustain their relationship through letters. It is based on Nicholas Sparks’s 2006 novel.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Nicholas Sparks
- Year
- 2007
- Pages
- 304Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 20 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Holter Graham
John Tyree enlists in the army after a directionless adolescence, then falls in love with Savannah while home on leave in North Carolina. Their letters sustain the promise of a future together until the attacks of September 11 lead him to reenlist. As his service prolongs their separation, John must confront the cost of that decision and the difficulty of remaining close to both Savannah and his withdrawn father.
- Director
- Lasse Hallström
- Writer
- Jamie Linden
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 1 hr 48 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas
- Genre
- Drama, Romance, war
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A beach encounter begins a two-week romance between soldier John Tyree and college student Savannah Curtis. She also reaches the quiet father John struggles to talk to, making the life waiting at home feel newly important. Once John returns to duty, letters connect them across successive deployments, but the years apart bring family illness and choices that their early promise to wait for each other cannot resolve.
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