A.C.’s Review: I am seeing AVENGERS with a friend on May 11th
so I needed to find some other films to see until that comes out so I
went to see this. I am not the target
audience for a Nicholas Spark’s romance novel turned film but I decided
to give it a chance any way. From the previews I saw it was telling the
story of a contemporary romance between a sorority girl studying to be
an art appraiser and a bull rider in North
Carolina as well as a parallel story in the 1940’s about a young Jewish
couple as related to the sorority girl (Britt Robertson) by the
surviving member of the couple an old man played by Alan Alda that the
pair befriend after they save him from a car accident.
My
interest was in the 1940’s part of the story because I have come to
appreciate period pieces featuring vintage vehicles and surroundings. It
helped that the story
was actually interesting and I cared about the young couple named
Levinson. On a personal note part of the storyline involved the art
world…something I grew up in so I could relate to it.
All
and all it was actually a nice change of pace movie for me. If it had
just focused on the contemporary couple it wouldn’t have been as
engaging but the dual
stories greatly helped the movie. It clocked in at just over two hours
but didn’t feel like it as I was interested in the proceedings.
Best Scene: Just about any scene during the courtship between the Ira and Ruth Levinson.
A.C.’s Rating: Full Price
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