My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay from our public library. It is based on a Sparks book and he also produces, so you know ahead of time it will be a romance story and will have a happy ending.
Set in and filmed in North Carolina, Benjamin Walker, of Georgia, is Travis, a Veterinarian who has a practice with his dad. Travis has a girlfriend but he acts like he would prefer to remain single, flirt with the pretty girls, go out on his boat, fish and drink beer.
A close neighbor is pretty Australian actress Teresa Palmer as Gabby, an intern on a track to become a physician. Her boyfriend is a hunk of a guy (Tom Welling who was hunky Clark Kent on 'Smallville') and they duck into a medical supply room when they can for some quick ... whatever 30- ish doctors do quickly.
Travis and Gabby have friction right away which, in romantic stories, means they are destined to end up in love. It follows that course but there is an accident and one of them is in a coma, not sure if they will survive.
As the 'extra' explains the theme regards 'choices', a theme I have recognized in my own life many years ago. Each of us faces a constant stream of choices and when we make one it closes off all the other possibilities. We enjoyed the movie even though much of it is very predictable.
SPOILERS: Gabby and Travis marry and start a family. She is waiting for Travis for a dinner date, it is raining, as he closes for the evening a lady comes in with her sick cat. Travis is delayed, Gabby has a couple of glasses of wine before she leaves, and is hit broadside by another vehicle. She is in a coma, after almost 3 months the doctor (her old boyfriend) says the chances of her ever coming out of it is about 1%. But Travis makes a 'choice' to not give up hope, to not unplug her from life-support. Then one day she wakes up, she is OK, she told him she heard everything her told her while she was in a coma, she just couldn't respond. They resumed their live together.
Set in and filmed in North Carolina, Benjamin Walker, of Georgia, is Travis, a Veterinarian who has a practice with his dad. Travis has a girlfriend but he acts like he would prefer to remain single, flirt with the pretty girls, go out on his boat, fish and drink beer.
A close neighbor is pretty Australian actress Teresa Palmer as Gabby, an intern on a track to become a physician. Her boyfriend is a hunk of a guy (Tom Welling who was hunky Clark Kent on 'Smallville') and they duck into a medical supply room when they can for some quick ... whatever 30- ish doctors do quickly.
Travis and Gabby have friction right away which, in romantic stories, means they are destined to end up in love. It follows that course but there is an accident and one of them is in a coma, not sure if they will survive.
As the 'extra' explains the theme regards 'choices', a theme I have recognized in my own life many years ago. Each of us faces a constant stream of choices and when we make one it closes off all the other possibilities. We enjoyed the movie even though much of it is very predictable.
SPOILERS: Gabby and Travis marry and start a family. She is waiting for Travis for a dinner date, it is raining, as he closes for the evening a lady comes in with her sick cat. Travis is delayed, Gabby has a couple of glasses of wine before she leaves, and is hit broadside by another vehicle. She is in a coma, after almost 3 months the doctor (her old boyfriend) says the chances of her ever coming out of it is about 1%. But Travis makes a 'choice' to not give up hope, to not unplug her from life-support. Then one day she wakes up, she is OK, she told him she heard everything her told her while she was in a coma, she just couldn't respond. They resumed their live together.