The Best of Me: Book vs. Movie
The Best of Me (2014), directed by Michael Hoffman, adapts Nicholas Sparks’s 2011 novel about former sweethearts reunited by a funeral. James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan play the adults; Luke Bracey and Liana Liberato portray their younger selves.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Nicholas Sparks
- Year
- 2011
- Pages
- 336Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 37 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Sean Pratt
The death of Tuck Hostetler brings Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole back to their North Carolina hometown twenty-five years after their teenage romance ended. Carrying out the wishes of the man who once sheltered them gives the former couple time together away from their ordinary lives. Amanda’s marriage and Dawson’s ties to a violent family make their renewed attraction difficult to separate from the consequences of their earlier choices.
- Director
- Michael Hoffman
- Writer
- Will Fetters, J. Mills Goodloe
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 1 hr 57 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan, Luke Bracey, Liana Liberato
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Dawson and Amanda return for the funeral of Tuck, the older man who offered them refuge during their teenage relationship. Their reunion unfolds alongside memories of Dawson’s abusive father, Amanda’s family’s objections, and the events that separated them. With Amanda now married and Dawson still carrying the consequences of his youth, spending time together revives a romance that has never stopped affecting either life.
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