Moving

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2007)

A dark-haired, shabbily-dressed Mandy Moore stars as a high school gal with a deep dark secret in A WALK TO REMEMBER. Costar Shane West plays a bad boy who gets himself in trouble and is forced to do community service. This includes acting with Moore in a school play about shy lovers. Predictably, West falls in love with Moore even when she warns him not to. Then her secret comes out (it starts with a "c"), and he loves her even more, enough to ask her to marry him. The film is a tender tale of the redemptive powers of faith and love, and forgiveness. It is frankly very moving for such a hokey plot. Peter Coyote and Darryl Hannah costar as parents. Hannah is almost unrecognizable under a dark wig and little makeup. A must-see.