Surprisingly great movie

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2002)

When I first walked into the movie, my thoughts were it was going to be another stupid teen movie with a singer trying to act. It was the opposite of my expectations. Mandy Moore was great in her starring debut as Jamie. Shane West looked really good(I admit that was my main reason for seeing it in the first place) and delivered a performance with a change that was really convincing. From the point in the alley where she tells him something, I cried. It takes an amazingly powerful movie to do that for me because I am usually not one to cry at a movie. It was a love story, not a teenage drama like so many other recent movies. This movie showed the power of faith and love. I loved it and would see it again.