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A Walk to Remember
Actors: David Andrews, Al Butler, Peter Coyote, Clayne Crawford, and Lauren German
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $12.98
Release Date: 2002-07-09
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Studio: Warner Home Video
Run Time: 102 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Discs: 1


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
With refreshing intelligence, A Walk to Remember offers welcome relief from the recent onslaught of teen-movie crudeness. Adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks and transplanted from 1958 to the present day, this admirable teen romance recognizes that two 18-year-olds--Landon (Shane West) and Jamie (pop singer Mandy Moore)--can be smart, mature, and sensible about the very real love they share. He's a popular kid in the cool crowd. She's got a goody-goody reputation as the dowdy daughter of a local minister (Peter Coyote); her values and priorities aren't rooted in peer pressure, and Landon feels blessed by her self-assured nobility. Their mutual affection inevitably heads into Love Story territory, but the movie is honest enough to survive its own schmaltz, and its attractive cast (including Daryl Hannah as Landon's mom) embraces a tone of sincerity and mutual respect. Finally... a teen movie with teens you can admire. --Jeff Shannon

2) Description
Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart in this coming-of-age story based on the bestselling book. Teen idol Shane West and multiplatinum recording star Mandy Moore star as two high schoolers -- she a straitlaced preacher's daughter and he an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget.DVD Features:Audio Commentary:2 Feature-length commentaries: - #1 by Shane West, Mandy Moore and director Adam Shankman - #2 by author Nicholas Sparks and screenwriter Karen JanszenFilmographies:Cast film highlightsInteractive MenusMusic Video:Mandy Moore, "Cry"Scene AccessTheatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) Tear jerker!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Love this movie! My husband and I even saw this in the movie theater. He later admitted that even though it was a "chic flic", he still liked it!

2) The Best Love Story   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I watched this movie when it first come out. It warmed my heart and showed me the message of hope. This is the most beautiful movie that I have ever watched. I loved it so much it has been playing on my mind recently and I had to buy it, if you haven't seen this movie, it is defiently one you will not want to miss.

3) 4.5 stars   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I am a 29 year old guy and I commonly try to avoid most "teen" films that have a pop star in them. So it took me 5 years before I finally found this film after several recommendations pointed to it. I ended up completely falling in love with this film in part because it is sweet, inspiring, and it manages to confront many timeless issues that face teens, friends and lovers. I was in part swept up in the film because it also mirrors some of my own experience and it models love and our human struggle in a way that succeeded in teaching me to be a better person. Quite life changing to watch a film and then have better relationships and appreciate the small things once taken for granted. I also wish to recommend these other films: Moulin Rouge, Harold and Maude, Science of Sleep, Amelie, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Story.

4) A Walk to Remember   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This movie was very nice. I bought it for my niece for Christmas. We hadn't been able to find it anywhere else. She really enjoyed it.

5) Mind blowingly bad.   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I already hated this movie before I read the book. And after I DID read it, I hate this movie even more(if that was even possible). While the book is not perfect, all of the charm and uniqueness that made it stand out in any way was taken out of the movie. All of the most touching moments were taken out, the characters aren't nearly as endearing, and all of the other little things that made the book special are non exsistent as well. We are left with just your typical teenage romance about the bad boy falling for the good girl, and every single teen movie cliche imaginable. What I probably hate most though is that the things the movie DID take from the book, they destroyed them. Like the play. In the book, it was a beautiful Christmas story written by Jamie's father. And Jamie played the angel. In the movie, it was just some stupid cheesy play some student wrote with stupid dialogue, and for some reason Jamie lip syncs in it. And the song didn't even seem like it made sense with the scene that was going on. It was totally out of place and was obviously only thrown in there in an attempt to showcase Mandy's singing and remind us she's a popstar. GOD the characters are so lame. In the book, Landon is actually a pretty good guy, just with a complicated homelife, careless attitude about school, na d tendencies to be a bit mischivious with friends. In the movie, he's just some stereotypical bad boy who almost instantly gets mesmerized by Jamie with no real explanation except "you inspire me." Even though prior to that we never saw any real indications of her words or actions inspiring him in any way. I guess we are just to believe that seeing her dressed all pretty on stage with a little make up was enough to do it for him right there. Really, really pathetic. And his friends were all walking talking highschool stereotypes. They were like bad rippoffs of the popular kids in "She's All That." EVERYTHING in this movie seems ripped off of another teen movie or other romance dramas. Not one original thing about it. And don't even get me STARTED on the way her illness happened. In the book, it was handled far more realistically. In the movie, it's just ridiculous. First of all, if she stopped taking treatments for her leukemia over a year ago, her symptoms should have been much more apparent then just her fainting later on after telling Landon. You're not just totally fine one day and then totally sick the next. And no, her merely appearing 'pale" is not the same thing. But what's worse than the lack of build up is the whole wedding scene. Are we honestly supposed to believe that, after being all weak and sickly in the hospital, Jamie was able to walk down the aisle effortlessly and looking totally beautiful and healthy? Whatever the reason for this cop out, I don't care. Just one of the many stupid things about this movie.