A Walk to Remember (2002) Movie Overview

A Walk to Remember is a 2002 romance film based on the 1999 romance novel with the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The movie stars pop singer Mandy Moore and Shane West. The movie was directed by Adam Shankman and produced by Denise DiNovi and Hunt Lowry for Warner Bros. The novel, written by Sparks, is set in the 1950s while the film is set in the late 1990s/early 2000s. When a prank on a fellow high school student goes wrong, popular but rebellious Landon Rollins Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as tutoring disadvantaged children and performing in the drama club’s spring musical. At these functions, he is forced to interact with quiet, bookish Jamie Elizabeth Sullivan (Mandy Moore), the only daughter of their church’s pastor, and a girl he has known for many years but to whom he has rarely if ever spoken. Their differing social statures leave them worlds apart, despite their close physical proximity. Landon has difficulty learning his lines for the spring play, so he asks Jamie to assist him. She decides to help him but under one condition: Landon must promise not to fall in love wit… Source

• A Walk to Remember Movie Details
• Director: Adam Shankman
• Official Sites: awalktoremember.com [us] (Warner Brothers) Info, trailer, screensaver
• Tagline: Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 101 min
• Genre: Drama , Romance

• Cast Overview
• Shane West as Landon Carter
• Mandy Moore as Jamie Sullivan
• Peter Coyote as Reverend Sullivan
• Daryl Hannah as Cynthia Carter
• Lauren German as Belinda
• Clayne Crawford as Dean

A Walk to Remember Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

A Walk to Remember (2002): Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and salt and the sea, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life… Serious and conservative, Jamie is the daughter of the towns Baptist minister and not afraid of l… Source

A Walk to Remember Movie Review from New York Times

Landon Carter (Shane West), a troubled North Carolina teenager, falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, a preacher’s daughter played with a beatific glow by Mandy Moore, the MTV pop princess. Directed by Adam Shankman from Nicholas Sparks’s inspirational novel, “A Walk to Remember” proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie… Source

A Walk to Remember Movie Details from Imdb

In Beaufort, North Carolina, a prank on a student goes terribly wrong and puts the student in the hospital. Landon Carter, a popular student with no defined plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to participate in after-school community service activities as punishment, which include starring as the lead in the school play. Also parti… Source

A Walk to Remember (2002) from YouTube