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* DisappearedDad: Landon's father abandoned the family, and he's still bitter about it.


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* MissingMom: Jamie's mother.
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* InconvenientAttraction: Played with, when Jamie tells Landon she's dying and tries to break up with him. She tells him that before falling in love with him, she had accepted her death, but now she couldn't.
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* UnbrokenVigil: Landon, while Jamie is in the hospital.
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* KarmaHoudini: Landon is part of a drunken "prank" that pretty much cripples another student. His punishment is being made to do some community service by the Principal, as opposed to, say, a criminal trial, or at the very least having to defend himself in a civil suit.
** Subverted, though, when he does try to make amends throughout the film.

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* KarmaHoudini: Landon is part of a drunken "prank" that pretty much cripples another student. His punishment is being made to do some community service by the Principal, as opposed to, say, a criminal trial, or at the very least having to defend himself in a civil suit.
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''A Walk to Remember'' is a weepy 2002 romantic drama tragedy about a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]] and a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness sweet Christian girl]] who fall in love and are torn apart when one of them gets leukemia. Everything you can expect from Creator/NicholasSparks.

Also[[labelnote:*]]or should we say "Only" ?[[/labelnote]] notable for being the breakout acting role of teen pop princess Music/MandyMoore, who also contributed to the soundtrack.

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''A Walk to Remember'' is a weepy 2002 romantic drama tragedy about a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]] and a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness sweet Christian girl]] who fall in love and are torn apart when one of them gets leukemia. Everything you can expect from Creator/NicholasSparks.

Creator/NicholasSparks, who wrote the 1999 novel from which the film was adapted.

Also[[labelnote:*]]or should we say "Only" ?[[/labelnote]] notable for being the breakout acting role of teen pop princess Music/MandyMoore, who also contributed to the soundtrack. Also in the cast are Shane West, Creator/PeterCoyote, and Creator/DarylHannah.



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* SettingUpdate: The movie changes the setting of the novel from TheFiftes to [[TheNineties 1998]].

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Langdon volunteers for the school play when Jamie asks him, though he's not interested, because he does owe her for being his date.
* LettingHerHairDown: Jamie keeps her hair in a bun for most of the book. She lets it down for her dance date with Langdon, and when she stops taking medication for cancer she starts letting it loose more.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Langdon Landon volunteers for the school play when Jamie asks him, though he's not interested, because he does owe her for being his date.
* LettingHerHairDown: Jamie keeps her hair in a bun for most of the book. She lets it down for her dance date with Langdon, Landon, and when she stops taking medication for cancer she starts letting it loose more.
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* DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife: Landon has this problem.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Langdon volunteers for the school play when Jamie asks him, though he's not interested, because he does owe her for being his date.
* LettingHerHairDown: Jamie keeps her hair in a bun for most of the book. She lets it down for her dance date with Langdon, and when she stops taking medication for cancer she starts letting it loose more.
* RealityEnsues: Due to the weakness of her illness, Jamie needs a wheelchair when she and Landon get married.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Jamie makes a good impression on Landon when she shows up with her hair down at a school dance, and more so when she helps clean up a student who's sick.
* StepfordSmiler: Jamie sadly admits to Landon with a smile that she's been suffering from cancer.


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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Jamie is more anguished about [[spoiler:Landon falling in love with her, while she's dying.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Landon didn't cripple another student with a DeadlyPrank in the book, and at worst he was a drifting {{Jerkass}}.

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* BlackBestFriend: Eric.
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* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: Joked at with Jamie.
* IllGirl: Jamie, the whole movie's point
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Landon.

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* LikeYouWereDying: the whole movie.
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* NonActorVehicle: perceived to be so.
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* PreachersKid: Jamie.

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* TroubledButCute: Landon.
* UncleTomfoolery: The BlackBestFriend.
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* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Jamie died three months after getting married with Landon, but Landon has already changed himself and even states in the end, that Jamie will always be with him.]]

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* DeadpanSnarker: Jamie responds this way after explaining one of Einstein's theories and his faith in God and one of Landon's friends asks that if there was a higher power, why doesn't he get her a new sweater
---> '''Jamie:''' He's too busy looking for your brain.



* EnforcedMethodActing: During the production, the actors playing Mandy Moore's classmates were told to distance themselves from her for a period of time, so she would feel unpopular and unliked. According to Mandy Moore, it didn't go as planned, as they caught up and became close when they were told they could be civil to her.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Jamie steals the stage when she reveals her costume for the play; her stark change in looks makes Landon forget his lines and leads to an impulsive non-scripted kiss on stage at the end of her solo.
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* GrandRomanticGesture: Landon helps Jamie complete a few things on her "list" including being in two places at once (straddling the state line).
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* LoveRedeems: Landon


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* OppositesAttract: Jamie and Landon.
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* DeathBySex: A variation: Landon and Jamie getting married serves the only purpose of allowing the two to have sex at least once before she dies, without violating her Christian beliefs.
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The epilogue takes place four years after but in the narration Landon says they had a beautiful summer together but she was gone by the fall.


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* NeverMyFault: Before they find out that Jamie has leukemia, some of Landon's friends apparently don't realize that maybe Landon wouldn't ''like'' it that they photoshopped Jamie's head onto a porn star's body, and seem to actually be ''confused'' when Landon pushes one of them and then slugs him in the face hard enough to knock him to the floor.
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''A Walk to Remember'' is a weepy 2002 romantic drama tragedy about a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]] and a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness sweet Christian girl]] who fall in love and are torn apart when one of them gets leukemia. Everything you can expect from NicholasSparks.

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''A Walk to Remember'' is a weepy 2002 romantic drama tragedy about a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]] and a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness sweet Christian girl]] who fall in love and are torn apart when one of them gets leukemia. Everything you can expect from NicholasSparks.
Creator/NicholasSparks.
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Also[[labelnote:*]]or should we say "only ?"[[/labelnote]] notable for being the breakout acting role of teen pop princess Music/MandyMoore, who also contributed to the soundtrack.

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''A Walk to Remember'' is a weepy 2002 romantic drama tragedy about a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]] and a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness sweet Christian girl]] who fall in love and are torn apart when one of them gets leukemia. Everything you can expect from NicholasSparks.

Also notable for being the breakout acting role of teen pop princess Music/MandyMoore, who also contributed to the soundtrack.
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* AltarTheSpeed: The young couple gets married after an extremely short courtship. Because he knows she's dying, and "getting married at the same church her mom did" was one of the things she wanted to do before she died. Sweet or saccharine? You decide.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Although she was never supposed to be "ugly" (just plain), Jamie has this moment during the scene in which she performs in the school play; as she takes off a black cape she is revealed in a blue silk dress, along with full hair and make-up for the first time.
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Jamie died four years after getting married with Landon, but Landon has already changed himself and even states in the end, that Jamie will always be with him.]]
* BlackBestFriend: Eric.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates
* EnforcedMethodActing: During the production, the actors playing Mandy Moore's classmates were told to distance themselves from her for a period of time, so she would feel unpopular and unliked. According to Mandy Moore, it didn't go as planned, as they caught up and became close when they were told they could be civil to her.
* GodIsLoveSongs
* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: Joked at with Jamie.
* IllGirl: Jamie, the whole movie's point
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Landon.
* KarmaHoudini: Landon is part of a drunken "prank" that pretty much cripples another student. His punishment is being made to do some community service by the Principal, as opposed to, say, a criminal trial, or at the very least having to defend himself in a civil suit.
** Subverted, though, when he does try to make amends throughout the film.
* LikeYouWereDying: the whole movie.
* MoodWhiplash: The movie starts out all fun and energetic - with the Breeders' "Cannonball" played over the opening credits - and you think it's going to be a typical lighthearted teen romance-drama. Needless to say, [[CerebusSyndrome that comes crashing down]].
* TheMourningAfter
* NonActorVehicle: perceived to be so.
* ThePollyanna: Jamie mostly is this; she is a devoutly religious girl who is always optimistic and faces her impending death gracefully.
* PreachersKid: Jamie.
* ProductPlacement: Remember the Star Registry? "Name a star after someone"? Well, Jamie gets her own star thanks to Landon.
* TroubledButCute: Landon.
* UncleTomfoolery: The BlackBestFriend.
* UptightLovesWild
* WhamLine: When Jamie tells Landon she has leukemia.
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