You don't just find them in your spare change. I am just enough of a numismatist to know that you need to invest money in order to collect rare coins.

Tyree's unspecified income free to invest in rare coins and amass a collection worth a fortune. She comes from a rich family who have a mansion, and John and his dad live in a humble but cozy frame house that in its South Carolina island location might easily be purchased for less than $500,000. First love is not to be, but the moon still looks so large when it rises, and people treat each other gently, and if someone should die, that is very sad, but perhaps it will provide an opportunity for someone else to live a little longer before they, too, must travel to that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler ever returns. That's the note Sparks aims for: the sad smile. Because Savannah is a true-blue heroine, her new love is of course a nice and decent man, someone who John can accept, so that we can smile sadly and not get all messy and depressed. And continues to re-enlist, until the movie's title hints at what he receives in the mail. John and Savannah get over his unhappiness, and he pledges that he'll be back at the end of 12 months so they can wed.īut then 9/11 happens, and like every man in his group, John re-enlists. Diseases don't destroy and kill, but exist primarily to inspire admirable conduct by nexts of kin. In a Sparks story, as we know from ' The Notebook,' problems like autism and Alzheimer's are never seen in their tragic stages, but always allow the good souls of their victims to visibly glow. Did he never, by the age of 22, observe that his father was strangely mannered? Did no one else? What was his (now absent) mother's thinking? Did the movie mention any employment history for Mr.

Savannah meets him and casually observes to John that he is autistic - a mild case, she gently suggests. John was raised by his father ( Richard Jenkins), a quiet man who wears white gloves while admiring his coin collection, and cooks chicken every Saturday and lasagna every Sunday. In the few precious days they share, they fall deeply into PG-13 love. He could have gotten her kitten down from a tree. John dives in and retrieves it, and we guess it could have been worse. Amanda Seyfried plays Savannah, an ethereal beauty whose purse falls off a pier.

Channing Tatum stars as John Tyree, a handsome Army Special Forces specialist home on two weeks' leave at the South Carolina shore.

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