Year: 2012
Genre: Drama
Rating: 5.6/10 from 2,702 users
Runtime: 101 min
Star: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling and Blythe Danner
Plot:
Nicolas Sparks… oh, Nicholas Sparks. He is perhaps one of the most puzzling contemporary American writers. His writing is trite, with one dimensional characters and contrived plotlines. He is, in essence, the poor man’s James Patterson, with each of his novels and the film adaptations of those novels failing to reach the level of emotional clarity found in James Patterson’s Sam’s Letters to Jennifer. However, despite all of this, his novels and their on-screen adaptations never fail to please the masses, usually earning Rotten Tomatoes scores in the mid seventies and eighties. This is what I like to refer to as The Sparks Swindle, the inexplicable quality of his writing that compels one to relinquish hours of ones life to watching and/or reading his work. I myself have fallen victim to it, curled in a ball crying while watching A Walk to Remember (2002), later wondering how I’d managed to consume 1 pint of ice cream during the film. The Sparks Swindle is powerful – it’s a force that deserves respect. It is what drew me to the Harvard Square Theater, in the middle of the day, to see The Lucky One (2012).
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