Dear John
Short description
Dear John follows John Tyree, a soldier on leave who meets Savannah Curtis, a college student, after he retrieves her purse from the ocean. The two begin a relationship during his short time at home and promise to stay in touch through letters once he returns to duty overseas. Their correspondence sustains the relationship at a distance, but the demands of his service and the events surrounding the September 11 attacks complicate the future they had imagined.
The film is a romantic drama based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. Lasse Hallström directed it, the twelfth of twenty films in his directing career by chronological order, following Hachi: A Dog's Tale and preceding Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Jamie Linden wrote the screenplay, and Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Ryan Kavanaugh produced. Amanda Seyfried plays Savannah and Channing Tatum plays John, with Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas, D.J. Cotrona and Cullen Moss among the credited cast of thirty-nine.
Made for a budget of 25 million dollars, the film took in about 115 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from roughly 163,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.8 from a much smaller base of 4,347 votes. A critics' rating of 4.6 from 136 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The ideological inspiration for the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel came from producer Marty Bowen. He read the manuscript even before its publication.
- The film is based on Nicholas Sparks's novel "Dear John" (2006).
- The original title of the book and film, "Dear John," is an idiom in English meaning a letter from a girlfriend or wife informing a boyfriend or husband of a breakup. Such a letter is most often written when it is impossible or undesirable to tell the person this to their face. The exact origin of this phrase is unknown, but it is believed to have originated and come into use during World War II.
- Warner Bros. produced all four previous film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks' bestsellers, but in this case, the rights to the book went to Sony Pictures instead.
- From the 92nd minute to the 95th minute of the film, John's epaulettes are reversed, and then they return to the correct position.
- The character of Alan received his traits from one of Nicholas Sparks' sons, who was also affected by one form of autism – Asperger's syndrome.
- The film's finale had to be reshot in haste after an unsatisfactory reaction during test screenings.
- The Swedish flag over the troops' camp in Afghanistan reminds the viewer of the nationality of the film's director, Lasse Hallström.
- Despite the fact that the military operations in the film take place in modern times, the filmmakers deliberately chose not to send John to Iraq, as they sought to avoid any political associations.
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