Landon asks Jamie on a date soon after, but Jamie says her father doesn't allow her to date. Jamie avoids Landon after the play, and it is not until Landon's friends play a cruel prank on Jamie and he protects her in opposition to his friends that she warms up to him again. When Jamie finishes, Landon kisses her which is not part of the play. Onstage at the peak of the ending to the play, Jamie sings. On the opening night of the play, Jamie astounds Landon and the entire audience with her beauty and her voice. They get to know each other and a spark of affection arises between them.

Landon and Jamie begin practicing together at her house after school. Jamie, who is also in the play, agrees to help him on one condition: Jamie warns Landon not to fall in love with her. Landon has trouble learning his lines for the play. She makes no attempt to wear make-up or otherwise improve her looks or attract attention to herself. Since he's one of the in-crowd, he has seldom paid any attention to Jamie, who wears modest dresses all the time and owns only one sweater. During these functions, Landon notices Jamie Sullivan, a girl he has known since kindergarten and who has attended many of the same classes as him, and who is also the local minister's daughter. The head of the school gives Landon the choice of being expelled or atoning for his actions by tutoring fellow students and participating in the school play. The popular, rebellious teenager Landon Carter is threatened with expulsion from school after he and his friends leave evidence of underage drinking on the school grounds and seriously injure another student as the result of a prank. The film was released on DVD in July 2002, and a 'Family-Edited Version' was later released in December. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, most of whom criticized its blandness and predictability, while others praised its sincerity and the lead actors' performances. The film, as with the book, is dedicated to Sparks' sister Danielle, whose cancer-afflicted life inspired the story.Ī Walk to Remember was theatrically released on January 25, 2002, and was a box office success, grossing $47.5 million against its $11.8 million budget.

The film was shot in the summer of 2001 for 39 days in Wilmington, North Carolina, with many of the sets borrowed from the television series Dawson's Creek. The novel's 1950s setting was changed to the late 1990s to early 2000s for the film, as the producers were concerned it might not appeal to teenage audiences. The film stars Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote and Daryl Hannah, and was produced by Denise Di Novi and Hunt Lowry for Warner Bros. A Walk to Remember is a 2002 American coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Adam Shankman and written by Karen Janszen, based on Nicholas Sparks' 1999 novel of the same name.

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