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Character: Savannah Lynn Curtis Director: Lasse Hallström Written By: Jamie Linden & Nicholas Sparks (Novel) Slogan: Is Duty enough reason to live a lie? Release Date: February 5, 2010 Distributors: Screen Gems Gross Revenue: $112,076,256 Genre: Drama, Romance and War Rating: Rated PG-13 Runtime: 108 min Filming Locations: Charleston, South Carolina, USA Fan’s Ratings: [ratings] (click stars to rate)

Starring Amanda Seyfried Channing Tatum Scott Porter Henry Thomas Richard Jenkins Keith Robinson Leslea Fisher Mary Dudley Bryce Hayes Gavin McCulley

Special Forces Army Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on a two-week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah’s purse that had fallen off the pier. John is smitten by Savannah and falls in love at first sight. Savannah is a college student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is on spring break and is helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. John joins in with Savannah to help build the house. Along the way a budding romance occurs, and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. As she is about to go back to college, she promises to write John overseas during the next 12-months until he returns to her after completing his enlistment. Their love is put to the test when John reenlists after the 9/11 attack.

• The original ending, following that of the book, conveys the treatment that Tim receives actually keeps him alive. It is uncertain if he will live or die, so Savanah and John do not reunite. The final scene shows Savanah looking out at the moon and John is standing faraway from her house. He smiles and then walks away. The change was made to give the film a more positive conclusion for John and Savanah.
• On its opening weekend in the United States, it went to number one, becoming the film to finally end the reign of James Cameron’s Avatar (2009), which had sat at the top of the box office for seven consecutive weeks.

• When John is eating with Savannah towards the end of the film, his epaulets are on upside down. After she spills her beverage on him, he goes upstairs, comes back, and they are then right side up again.
• Tim is taking the trash out and John drives up to speak with Savannah who is not home. Tim reaches into the trash and gives John a scrap of paper to write a message on to leave for her, and a pen also magically appears.
• There is a typo in the end credits. In the Special Thanks section it reads “United States Mint And Its’ Philadelphia Facility”
• John’s rank throughout the movie is that of an E-5 (SGT), yet all of the letters use the rank of E-6 (SSG). It isn’t until he returns home after his father suffers a stroke is he an E-6.
• In one scene of John in his room when he’s at war, it is around September 11, 2001. They have a poster on the wall of a Bud Light beer bottle, and it says Drinkability on it. But the term “drinkability” wasn’t actually used by Bud Light until recently.
• During the climatic dinner scene, John is wearing his staff sergeant rank on his shoulders upside down. (The rocker should be furthest from his neck). Halfway through the scene, it shifts to the correct positioning, and then when he leaves, it is incorrect again. This is the only time the rank on his uniform is applied incorrectly.
• When John runs up behind Savannah in the sand and sits down her legs are straight, when it cuts to a different angle when John sits down her legs are crossed.
• When John learns about 9/11 the coffee shop’s TV is in Serbian while the coffee shop’s sign is in Hungarian. ‘Tigris Kávéház’ means Tiger Coffeeshop and the sign to the right: ‘Muvész’ means Artist.
• In early scenes in the movie when John and Savannah are hanging out, it’s supposed to be 2001 but Savannah is wearing skinny jeans which didn’t become popular again (from the 1950s) until much later in the decade.

• Savannah: The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all.
• Savannah: See you soon then.
• Savannah: Well, that’s because it’s in my mind. There’s a never-ending stream of curse words that I’m thinking at all times.
• Savannah: You don’t scare me John.
• Savannah: Two weeks together, that’s all it took, two weeks for me to fall for you.
• Savannah: I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was – I’ll see you soon then.
• Savannah: You don’t understand. I wasn’t scared because you told me. I got scared because I wanted to say it, too: I love you, John