Safe Heaven
Nicholas Sparks, the great romdram master, is back – his novel Safe Haven has been adapted for the screen, directed by Lasse Hallström. Even though I have had a grudging respect for Sparks's knack for ingenious popular fiction in the past, this latest gushing, smouldering love story is just too ridiculously cliched; his tropes are beginning to look a bit threadbare, and the massive twist at the end is outrageous – and not in a good way. Julianne Hough plays Erin, a beautiful, troubled young woman escaping something or someone. She winds up in the town of Southport, North Carolina, and finds herself befriending Alex (Josh Duhamel), the manager of a convenience store, a widower with two adorable children. Could it be that hunky, sensitive Alex is the safe haven that Erin is looking for? But of course. As ever with a Sparks story, the action takes place in a sugary vision of small-town America that does not correspond with the real world at any point.
I got to see the early screening of Safe Haven, and I enjoyed it very much. The
Notebook is still my favorite NS movie, but this one comes very close. It makes
a great date movie or a girls night out movie. Bring your tissues!
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