I enjoyed watching the movie!

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2010)

I also did not read the book, but enjoyed watching the movie. Mylie Cyrus plays Ronnie a troubled teenager going through her rebellious stage and yet still struggling with the resentment she has for her father, who she feels abandoned her, and her younger brother after her mother and he divorced.
Greg Kinnear and the very beautiful Kelly Preston play Ronnie's parents and are both great actors. Ronnie's father seems to be struggling with cancer, and her mother wants them to spend the summer with him before he dies. Although in the beginning of the movie, Ronnie starts off as a disrespectful, unappreciative brat teenager in the beginning, she soon starts to enjoy the island her father lives on, and the time left with her father, and after meeting a young boy that she kiss's for the first time, and that later becomes her first love, realizes how important her father really is to her, and soon realizes how much her father really loves her.
I rather not spoil the movie's ending by letting you know what else happens, but thought that it had an interesting twist.
Jose F. Medeiros