“We damaged them,” Kim tells Steve of their seemingly amicable divorce it’s up to Dad to fix things before the autumn leaves fall.īut Steve’s damaged, too, branded as an arsonist after the beloved church in town burned to the ground. Sullen and irritable, dressed in grunge wear and sporting a nose stud, Ronnie and her younger brother, Jonah (the precocious Bobby Coleman, who nearly steals the film), are shipped off by their fed-up mother, Kim (Kelly Preston), to spend a summer with their father, Steve (Greg Kinnear), at his ramshackle beachside cabin in Georgia.
Ultimately, this is a story about fixing people who are broken through love and forgiveness.Ĭyrus, in her first dramatic role, plays Veronica (“Ronnie”) Miller, a gifted New York classical pianist who is in full-blown rebellion, having abandoned her music scholarship to Julliard and gotten arrested for shoplifting. Fans of practicing Catholic Sparks’ other tales (and their film adaptations), such as “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember,” will be on familiar ground here. But, wild though the ride may be, morally there is little to object to, and a good deal to celebrate, along the way.Īll the hallmarks of a Nicholas Sparks novel (such as the eponymous one on which the film is based) are present: two young star-crossed lovers from different worlds families in conflict picture-perfect scenery and a town worthy of Norman Rockwell plenty of kissing and a veritable ocean of tears.
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NEW YORK (CNS) - “The Last Song” (Disney/Touchstone) - a star vehicle for teen singing sensation Miley Cyrus - is an emotional rollercoaster of a movie that barely stays on the tracks as it careens, breathlessly, from one dramatic situation to the next.
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