The Last Song: Book vs. Movie

The Last Song (2010), directed by Julie Anne Robinson, stars Miley Cyrus as a teenager spending the summer with her estranged father. Nicholas Sparks wrote the screenplay with Jeff Van Wie and also wrote the 2009 novel.

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About the book and the movie
Book
The Last Song cover
Author
Nicholas Sparks
Year
2009
Pages
432Buy book
Audiobook length
12 hr 28 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Pepper Binkley, Scott Sowers

Ronnie Miller has refused to play the piano since her parents’ marriage ended, cutting herself off from the music she shared with her father. Sent with her younger brother to spend the summer at his North Carolina home, she resists his attempts to reconnect. A new relationship with Will and trouble involving other local teenagers draw her into the town, while her father tries to recover the closeness they once had.

Movie
The Last Song poster
Director
Julie Anne Robinson
Writer
Nicholas Sparks, Jeff Van Wie
Year
2010
Runtime
1 hr 47 minWatch on Amazon
Cast
Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman
Genre
coming-of-age, Drama, Romance, teen
IMDb
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Ronnie arrives at her father’s beach house determined to spend as little time with him as possible. Protecting a nest of sea turtles brings her closer to Will, a local boy whose family and friends complicate their summer romance. At home, her father’s music begins to reopen a relationship Ronnie has rejected since the divorce, even as a secret makes their time together more urgent than she realizes.

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