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Part 1: The movie is talking about Jamie (Mandy Moore) and Landon (Shane West) as popular bad boy follows the lives of these two Beaufort, North Carolina, high school students as they each grow and learn from each other through life's tender moments and unexpected trials. Jamie is a star-gazing, Bible-toting priest daughter, who, because of her strict Baptist upbringing, wears mostly loose-fitting dresses and sweaters. Landon, on the other hand, is an angry young man with a mean streak for those outside of the popular crowd. He initially considers Jamie prudish and bookish. But then he gets to know her, Jamie who is sweet…Jamie who is determined…Jamie who doesn't care what people think…Jamie who has quiet strength…Jamie who has faith in God and faith in him. And Landon, despite the taunts and tricks of his friends, finds himself not only falling for Jamie, but standing up for her when she needs it most specially when he found out that she is suffering with blood cancer (leukemia). True love -- not sex -- is what this story is all about.
The movie is not content to make Jamie a good girl; she must be a martyr as well. Midway through the movie, Jamie says to Landon, ''I warned you not to fall in love with me.'' (Too late!) This drew a gasp from a young woman behind me at the teenager-packed sneak preview. ''That's it,'' she said to her friends. ''She's sick. She's dying.'' And, sure enough, a few minutes later, Jamie said to Landon: ''I'm sick. I'm dying,'' and the story shifted from ''Pretty in Pink'' to ''Love Story.'' The Script was Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, the Warner Brothers Pictures. The movie had so many music and songs such as : * "Cannonball"
Written by Kim Deal
Performed by The Breeders * "So What Does It All Mean?"
Written by Shane West * "Empty Spaces"
Written by Carl William Bell
Performed by Fuel * "Only Hope"
Written by Jon Foreman (as
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