I was totally surprised...I was blown away

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2003)

OK, let me first say that I am not the target audience for this movie. I'm 31, male, and try very hard to keep my emotions under wraps. It takes a very special movie to get any kind of real emotion out of me. In other words, I pretty much don't cry at movies. I saw A Walk to Remember on HBO last weekend. I put it on basically as background as I was working, but it totally sucked me in. By the end I was balling my eyes out.

I had previously dismissed it as a typical teen chick flick. But it's so much more. It's a story of how one person's life can completely alter another's life. It's a story about finding faith, finding love, and holding onto that love through life's toughest challenges.
Not to say that it's perfect. It certainly has its flaws (many of them, actually). But taken as a whole, it is one of those stories that can truly change you. As Landon says to his mother, "Jamie makes me want to become different, better" This movie does the same.