Good team work produced a great movie

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2003)

As a 40 year old man, I have seen this movie 23 times -- in a week. I did not know who Mandy Moore was when I got the dvd. It touched me so deeply that in one day I watched it for 7 times. The performance of Mandy is a real surprise on me. The makeup and dress did make a beautiful Mandy to be an ordinary, plain looking girl who has a faith in God and confidence in herself. She was so believable and so real. I loved the movie not only by the two actor and actress but also the whole team. The screen writer did a good job to transform a novel -- verbal communication to be a movie which is a non verbal communication in a such of rewrite instead of substracting. Good job. Mandy's singing was great. I can not imagine if another young pop singer can do the same as Mandy did in this film. I can not say Mandy is perfect in the film neither Shane. But the chemistry between these two as professionals was great in this movie. I could not say enough about it. Now I became a big fan of Mandy.