Nick Lashaway Marcus as Marcus. Carly Chaikin Blaze as Blaze. Adam Barnett Teddy as Teddy. Michael Jamorski Lance as Lance. Melissa Ordway Ashley as Ashley. Carrie Malabre Cassie as Cassie. Lance E. Nichols Pastor Harris as Pastor Harris. Bonnie Johnson Neighbor as Neighbor. Julie Anne Robinson. Nicholas Sparks screenplay book Jeff Van Wie screenplay. More like this. Watch options.
Storyline Edit. Ronnie's Miley Cyrus and her younger brother, Jonah's, parents are divorced. They live with their mother until this summer when they are sent to live with their father Greg Kinnear in a small town on the beach. Ronnie resents her father and has no intention of being friendly or even talking to him for the summer. But after meeting a handsome guy and beginning to fall in love, Ronnie starts rediscovering her love for music, something she shares with her father.
Reconnecting with music revives a kinship with her father which proves to be the most important relationship she may ever experience. Do you ever really forget your first heartbreak? Rated PG for thematic material, some violence, sensuality and mild language.
Did you know Edit. Trivia A lot of the shots - especially the night time ones - used Miley Cyrus 's double. Cyrus was still technically a minor at the time of filming so the number of hours she was able to work was strictly limited.
Quotes Steve Miller : [in letter to Ronnie] Love is fragile. User reviews Review. Top review. It was just so I didn't read the book, didn't want to. A bunch of my friends went to go see this movie, and I went with them. There are a few things wrong with this movie. First, Miley Cyrus cannot act. I mean, at all. It's painful to watch. Second, there is no originality.
Third, the characters. Ronnie is annoying enough without Cyrus, unbearable with her. She was such a brat at the beginning that I felt no pity the rest of the movie. Will makes several idiotic mistakes that cause Ronnie to have another temper tantrum. The little brother is cute, but irritating at times.
Overall, this is just a flat, overrated chick flick that has the depth of a Disney Channel movie. FAQ 1. Is this a true story? Details Edit.
Filming lasted from June 15 to August 18, with much of it occurring on the island's beach and pier. The Last Song was originally scheduled for wide release on January 8, , but was postponed to March 31, At seventeen, Veronica "Ronnie" Miller Miley Cyrus remains as rebellious as she was the day her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina three years prior.
Once a classical piano child prodigy under the tutelage of her father, Steve Miller Greg Kinnear , Ronnie now ignores the instrument and has not spoken with her father since he left. While Juilliard School has been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie refuses to attend. Now, Steve has the chance to reconnect with his estranged daughter when her mother, Kim Miller Kelly Preston sends the rebellious teen and her younger brother, Jonah Bobby Coleman , to spend the summer with him.
Steve, a former Juilliard School professor and concert pianist, lives a quiet life in Wrightsville Beach, the small beach town in North Carolina where he grew up, working on a stained glass window for the local church to replace the one the church lost in a fire. According to the locals, it was Steve who had accidentally set fire to the church one night.
After arrival, Ronnie becomes miserable, defiant, and defensive toward all those around her, including handsome, popular Will Blakelee Liam Hemsworth whose introduction involved crashing into her during a volleyball match, and accidentally spilling Ronnie's strawberry shake on her.
She shrugs him off and meets Blaze, an outcast who lives with her boyfriend Marcus. While at a beach campfire, Marcus hits on Ronnie and Blaze mistakes this for Ronnie flirting with him. Angered by this, Blaze later frames Ronnie for shoplifting, causing her arrest. Later on, Ronnie discovers aLoggerhead Sea Turtle nest at the beach by her house and while protecting it, she meets Will again on his volunteer work for the aquarium.
After a night of staying up to defend the turtle eggs from predators with Will, she discovers he is deeper than she believed, and begins to develop feelings for him. As Ronnie falls in love with Will, she also manages to form a better and stronger bond with her father.
As their relationship deepens, Will invites her to his sister's wedding. When Ronnie goes to buy a dress for the wedding, she sees Blaze crying over Marcus kicking her out of his car. She approaches Blaze sitting on the road and gives her the money meant for the dress. Her brother ends up giving her money for a dress so she can look nice for Will. At the wedding, Marcus comes and causes a scene with Blaze and Will ends up hitting him after he harass Blaze and Ronnie. Later that day, the turtle eggs hatch and her father collapses.
Ronnie immediately has Steve rushed to a hospital and learns that he has stomach cancer that has spread to his lungs.
She decides to start spending more time with her father since he is unlikely to survive much longer. Around the same time, Ronnie and Will get into an argument after Will confesses that Scott, his best friend, had actually set fire to the church.
She is outraged that he let everyone believe that her father was the culprit. With Will soon leaving for college, there is no time to patch things up. Fall arrives and Jonah returns to New York for the school year, but Ronnie stays behind to take care of her father. Leading a slow life, she tries to make up for the time with her father that she's lost. She continues work on a composition he's been writing titled "For Ronnie" , after he loses the steadiness of his hands due to his illness.
He dies just as she finishes it. At his funeral she stands to make a speech but declares that no words would ever be able to show how wonderful her father really was. Instead, she decides to share with them the song she helped finish. Before she sits down to play, sunlight shines through the stained glass window, making her smile, knowing that her father is with her.
Blaze and other townsfolk offer Ronnie sympathy and kind words after the funeral outside. Later on, while talking to the attendants, she runs into Will. He says that he liked the song she played and that he knows her dad did too and Ronnie thanks him for coming.
Having decided to attend Juilliard, Ronnie is packing up to return to New York when she sees Will standing outside. She goes outside to see him and Will apologizes to her for everything that had happened and Ronnie forgives him. Will surprises Ronnie by revealing that he will be transferring to Columbia in order to be with her and they share a kiss.
At the time, Cyrus had been known mainly for starring as a pop star on Disney Channel's Hannah Montana , a children's television series that had expanded into a globally successful media franchise. As the series neared its end, Disney hoped to create a star vehicle to help Cyrus break out of the pop persona she had developed through the franchise and to introduce Cyrus to older audiences.
During her meeting with Reed, Cyrus expressed a desire to film a movie similar to A Walk to Remember , a film based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. A Walk to Remember helped Mandy Moore , then a teen pop star much like Cyrus, launch an acting career. Disney called Adam Shankman, director of A Walk to Remember , who signed on to produce the potential Cyrus film along with his sister and Offspring Entertainment production company partner, Jennifer Gibgot. Tish Cyrus, Cyrus' mother and co-manager, became the film's Executive producer.
Cyrus' acting representation, United Talent Agency, then contacted Sparks, also a UTA client, to ask if he had plans for a novel appropriate for a film adaptation starring Cyrus. At the time, Sparks had been wrapping up The Lucky One and beginning to ponder an original plot for his next book.
The author told himself he could "either go younger than 20 or older than 50", having recently written about every age in between. Wary of venturing above 50 again after his best-seller The Notebook , Sparks had already been leaning toward writing a teenage story when he received a phone call from Gibgot on behalf of the film in August Sparks recalled, "Jennifer asked if I had anything laying around?
I said no, but funny you should say that…" Sparks returned with a premise by the end of July Once the proposal had been agreed upon by Cyrus, her family, and Offspring Entertainment, Sparks, with the aid of co-screenplay writer Jeff Van Wie, completed the screenplay before starting the book. Both rewrites took approximately one or two days, and Sparks found them relatively simple. While The Last Song is not the first screenplay Sparks has written, it is his first to be optioned for film.
The novel was completed in June , the same time shooting for the film began, and was published on September 8, by Grand Central Publishing. The plot of the film and novel remained secret throughout development. Julie Anne Robinson signed on to direct the film in May , attracted by the emotion present in the story. The Last Song is Robinson's first feature film, although she is a veteran of television and theater. In a June blog entry, Cyrus said she had "always been a fan of Nicholas Sparks" and that she had been waiting to do a production separate from the Hannah Montana franchise "for a long time", but had not found the time to do so due to her TV show, music, tours, and Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Recognizing the popularity of A Walk to Remember as both a novel and film, Sparks "put all [his] thoughts into that, trying to make the story as different from A Walk to Remember as [he could], but try to capture the same feelings. Sparks felt Ronnie was the hardest character to write for because he had "never been a year-old, angry teenage girl". Cyrus herself influenced Ronnie fairly little, although her singing career did inspire the musical elements of the story. My teenagers… don't do bad things.
As dictated by the Writers Guild of America, Sparks receives full credit for his work although the amount of his original screenplay retained in the film is uncertain. For example, Sparks says the character of Marcus, leader of the gang of thugs, was likely altered for the film.
The project remained nameless for several months after Sparks' initial meeting with Disney in July Sparks wrote in a September online chat that "I have the idea completed, but no title.
That's common for me though. Titles come last. Cyrus chose the name "Ronnie" for her character in honor of her grandfather, Ron Cyrus, who died in Unknown to many the character had first been named "Kirby" by Sparks and later changed to "Hilary".
New interviews with Sparks reveal he imagined Cyrus in the role "only a little" during the writing process. The completion of the screenplay, concerned Sparks that Cyrus would not be able to successfully execute the role: "The first thing I thought when I finished the screenplay was, wow, I hope she can do this, this is a tough role because I'm bringing you through a whole gamut of emotion and you're just a year-old girl who's done the Disney Channel.
Are you able to do this as an actress? To play the New York teen, Cyrus worked with a dialect coach to lose her Southern accent and learned to play classical piano. After she completed filming, Cyrus said that in a case of life imitating art, she had matured and "changed a lot" over the course of her summer in Georgia, similar to the way Ronnie does in the film.
So I'm really excited for people to see it. Kelly Preston's part as Kim is the first role she has accepted since the death of her son, Jett Travolta. After being introduced to Cal Johnson, the film's stunt coordinator, Adam Barnett landed the role of Teddy in May due to his pre-developed talent in juggling and hackey sack.
Though they wished to shoot on location, filmmakers also examined three other states and identified Georgia as the next best filming site. North Carolina officials searched for ways to accomplish this, including applying unsuccessfully for state and Golden LEAF Foundation grants. North Carolina tax collectors refused to consider the film rights, forcing Perdue to cancel the conference at the last second. They also make television series; they make individual movies for the Disney Channel.
By losing this one project, in essence, we've lost all of those opportunities. On April 9, , after three months of deliberation, the decision to move to Georgia was made final. After another three months and the discovery of the "Adams Cottage" on the southern tip of Tybee Island, Tybee and neighboring locations became the sites of filming in late March, with the intention of masquerading the area as Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Filmmakers convinced the screenwriters to change the setting of the film and to Tybee Island, thus allowing them to incorporate landmarks such as the Tybee Island Light Station and the Savannah Historic District. The setting of Sparks' novel remained in North Carolina. Nelson Coates is the production designer for The Last Song , responsible for all visual aspects of the movie. Coates, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the Stephen King television miniseries The Stand , arrived 11 weeks prior to the start of filming to do prep work.
While most of the filming took place on the natural Tybee Island beach or on pre-constructed private property, Coates oversaw the re-painting of the pier and the construction of the carnival and church.
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