![]() ![]() Still, credit must be given to a film that delivers the goods, and if you've ever liked a Nicholas Sparks movie, you're likely to enjoy this one. They usually involve the triumph of love over adversity, are usually set in beautiful natural settings, usually involve such coincidences as finding a message in a bottle, and usually make me stir restlessly, because such escapism is shameless. ![]() Nicholas Sparks has a good line in stories like this. It also has leaves bursting into bright autumn colors, and a lake just right for a couple to steal away for a quiet chat on a rowboat. This is yet another love story adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel, and it has been cast with appealing romantic leads, a snaky villain with a drinking problem, a grandmother with infallible instincts and a lot of adorable dogs. ![]() The odds are overwhelmingly against anything in any movie happening, so I should just shut up and pay attention. I'm not going to say anything at all about the odds of that happening. He doesn't know her name or where she lives, but wouldn't you know, through happy chance he happens to be passing through Louisiana - and there she is! The photo stays with him through his third tour of duty, and when he comes home, he determines to find the girl in the photograph. A nearby explosion would have wiped him out. ![]() He steps over to pick it up, and with that small movement, he saves his life. A Marine sees a photograph almost buried in rubble in the middle of a combat scene. ![]()
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