![]() So, imagine my surprise when the opening titles roll and the credit "Based on a Novel by Nicholas Sparks" didn't flash across the screen. It was like sitting in the splash section at SeaWorld. And I'm not talking the kind of sniffling half-sobs you can explain away when the lights come up by saying, "It's just my cold." I'm talking tears on the level of Matt Damon "It's not your fault, Will" crying. And each time, there would inevitably be audience members reduced to puddles of tears by the end credits. I remember seeing each of those movies in the theater. ![]() And the trailers and commercial for this latest flick are cut exactly the same way that other ads were cut for those two titles and such other Sparks' weepies as "The Last Song," "A Walk to Remember," and "Message in a Bottle." I mean, it stars Rachel McAdams from "The Notebook" and Channing Tatum from "Dear John." Both were Sparks' properties, and both were utterly ruthless in jerking the tears. OUR TAKE: 4.5 out of 10 There was one thing that surprised me about "The Vow." It isn't based on a Nicholas Sparks novel! I totally thought going in that this was going to another one of those shamelessly manipulative melodramas about love torn apart and brought back together again ripped from the pages of Sparks' deal-with-the-Devil prose. Growing further apart, Leo decides to woo his wife all over again in an effort to win her heart and save their marriage. Even worse for Leo, she finds herself attracted to Jeremy (SCOTT SPEEDMAN), her former fiancé who she broke up with shortly before their wedding years earlier. Nothing is familiar to Paige back in Chicago, and she soon finds herself drawn to what she knows. Leo insists she come home with him and try to fill in what is still missing - a strategy her physician, Dr. They re-enter her life and try to take control of her recovery, urging her to move back home with them after five years of not speaking. She does, however, remember her years before giving up law school moving from the suburbs to the city and becoming estranged from her father, Bill (SAM NEILL) mother, Rita (JESSICA LANGE) and sister, Gwen (JESSICA McNAMEE). She is in a coma for days and awakes to severe memory loss. On the way home from the movies one wintry night, a snow plow barrels into their stopped car from behind, sending Paige through the windshield. He owns a recording studio and she is an up-and-coming sculptor and artist. They are head over heels in love with each other. PLOT: Leo (CHANNING TATUM) and Paige (RACHEL McADAMS) are a young husband and wife living in Chicago. QUICK TAKE: Romantic Drama: A car accident gives a young wife severe memory loss, which means her husband has to win her heart all over again. Otherwise, use the following link to read our complete Parental Review of this film. If you've come from our parental review of this film and wish to return to it, simply click on your browser's BACK button. (2012) (Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum) (PG-13)
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