User Score
4.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 39
  2. Negative: 19 out of 39

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  1. AmandaH.
    Mar 15, 2009
    9
    I thought this movie was beautiful, It shows how real love can feel. When she received his letters she acted just how I do when I recive a letter from my fiance in bootcamp. I understood the characters and wept with them.
  2. Kristin
    Jan 13, 2009
    10
    I loved this movie!! I am a huge Nicholas Sparks fan! I cried through just about all of the movie. If you actually have a heart, this movie is one to see!!
Metascore

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 26
  2. Negative: 7 out of 26
  1. A tasteful melodrama courtesy of the easy chemistry between its two leads and a generally restrained touch from Tony-winning director George C. Wolfe in his feature debut.
  2. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    50
    Hardly groundbreaking, but for those with an appetite for an increasingly rare gust of unapologetic romance, well, as they say, any port in a storm.
  3. Lane and Gere mime adult courtship with the efficiency of synchronized swimmers. Yet in this ocean of emotion, they look like they're drowning.