The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this een melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Sentenced to community service and membership in his schools drama club, Landon is forced to seek help from Jamie Sullivan (pop singer Mandy Moore), the conservative, religious, plain-Jane daughter of the towns Baptist minister (Peter Coyote). When the two students begin to fall in love, Landon struggles with the drop in popularity that his new friendship brings, while Jamie is forced to deal with her strict father and a secret that shes keeping from her schoolmates. A Walk to Remember, which co-stars Daryl Hannah, is the second of Sparkss novels to make it to the big screen after Message in a Bottle (1999). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide