The romantic and dramatic movie The Best of Me opened the weekend of October 17 and made $10.2 million. The movie was directed by Michael Hoffman and based off a Nicholas Sparks book, continuing his recurring theme of love.
The movie starts out as the main female and male characters, Dawson and Amanda, get a call from a lawyer informing them about their friend’s passing. Dawson is the main operator of an oil rig and Amanda has a home of her own along with a husband and a son who has just graduated. Both Amanda and Dawson then drive to the town they grew up in to spread the ashes of their beloved friend. However, neither of them knew the other one was going to be there, prompting a reunion of the love they shared twenty years ago and have never forgotten.
The movie shows constant flashbacks of the two as high school sweethearts through almost everything until the dreadful night of their senior homecoming. Things go horribly wrong that night and they are ripped apart from each other until they meet again twenty years later unexpectedly. As they begin to fall for one another again, they learn that the forces that kept them from each other when they were teenagers live on and now is an even bigger danger to them.
This epic love movie shows the power and effect of a person’s first true love and how they never really fall out of love with that person. This movie would be highly recommended for someone to drag their friends or significant other to. However, be warned that if you do go see this movie, bring tissues because you might get somewhat emotional. Now ask yourself, what would you do if you got a second chance with your first true love?