This being the sort of movie where the audience knows what’s going to happen about 45 minutes before the characters do, Kinnear’s makeup and demeanor from the first shot (not to mention the high mortality rate in Sparks’ adaptations) rather obviously telegraph that he may not make it till the final reel. This impossible role is played by Greg Kinnear, who manages to recite purple prose like “love is fragile, and we’re not always its best caretakers” with a straight face. PHOTOS: SHIRTLESS SHOTS OF LIAM HEMSWORTHĪlong with her annoyingly precocious younger brother (Bobby Coleman), Cyrus - whose character has improbably been raised in New York City - is being forced to spend the summer in a sun-dappled Southern beach town with her dad. It’s the worst of both worlds as Disney cash cow Miley Cyrus makes the most dubious “dramatic” debut of any singer since Britney Spears in “The Last Song” - a risible Nicholas Sparks tear-jerker that makes the recent, similar film derived from Sparks’ “Dear John” look like “The Notebook” by comparison.ĭisplaying approximately 1½ expressions, the teenage Cyrus pouts her way through a fire, a wedding and a funeral - not to mention intervening in an abusive relationship, digging out guilty secrets and resisting overtures from her dad, whom she’s never forgiven for her parents’ divorce.
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