Safe Haven: Book vs. Movie
Safe Haven (2013), directed by Lasse Hallström, adapts Nicholas Sparks’s 2010 novel. Julianne Hough plays a woman starting over in a coastal town, where a relationship with a widowed father brings the life she escaped back into focus.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Nicholas Sparks
- Year
- 2010
- Pages
- 368Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 11 hr 2 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Rebecca Lowman
Katie arrives in Southport with little money and a determination not to explain where she has come from. A friendship with her neighbor Jo and growing affection for Alex, a widower raising two children, gradually give her reasons to stay. But building a life with people who trust her means deciding how much to tell them about the violent marriage she has escaped and the man who may still be searching for her.
- Director
- Lasse Hallström
- Writer
- Dana Stevens, Gage Lansky
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 1 hr 55 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons
- Genre
- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A woman calling herself Katie steps off a bus in a North Carolina coastal town, finds restaurant work, and rents an isolated cottage. Store owner Alex and his children gradually draw her out of hiding, while her neighbor Jo encourages her to trust him. Elsewhere, a police officer tracks her movements, threatening to expose the reason she fled and bring that danger into Alex’s family.
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