A Walk to Remember 🎥 2002 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In Beaufort, North Carolina, popular and rebellious high-school senior Landon Carter and his friends leave evidence of underage drinking on school grounds and severely injure another student as the result of a prank. The principal gives him the choice of being expelled or helping the janitorial staff after school as well as tutoring fellow disadvantaged young students and finally participating in the school play. During these functions, Landon notices Jamie Sullivan, a girl he has known since kindergarten who is the local Reverend Sullivan’s daughter. Since he’s one of the in-crowd, he has seldom paid attention to Jamie, who wears modest dresses and owns only one sweater.

She makes no attempt to wear make-up or otherwise improve her looks or attract attention to herself. Landon has trouble learning his lines for the play. Jamie, who is also in the play, agrees to help him on one condition: she warns Landon not to fall in love with her, which he dismisses as impossible. Landon and Jamie begin practicing at her house after school, and a spark of affection arises between them. However, when he blows her off in front of his friends, she decides she wants nothing to do with him.

Feeling guilty, he starts taking independent initiative to tutor and to rehearse. On the opening night of the play, Jamie astounds Landon and the audience with her beauty and voice. Onstage at the ending to the play, Jamie sings. When she finishes, Landon kisses her, which is not part of the play. Jamie continues to avoid him until he gives her a new sweater as a peace offering. Landon’s spiteful ex-girlfriend, Belinda, plays a cruel prank on her by photoshopping her head onto the body of a woman in scanty, sensual attire; she and Landon’s friends are shocked when Landon defends Jamie.

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