Over spring break, idealistic college girl Savannah (Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia!) meets John (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and they fall in love, even as he must return to his deployment and she back to school. Over the years, they maintain a romantic correspondence with consequences neither could have forseen. Director Lasse Hallstr�m (Cider House Rules) adapts Nicholas Spark�s (The Notebook) novel into a comforting, sentimental, romantic melodrama.