Rotten
It's like a bad soap opera.
Christine Champ, Film.com
Dear John
Love brought them together. Will fate tear them apart?
2010 · 1h 48m · PG-13
Drama, Romance, War
Directed by
Lasse Hallström
Overview
While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.
Director and cast
- Lasse Hallström Director
- Amanda Seyfried as Savannah Lynn Curtis
- Channing Tatum as John Tyree
- Richard Jenkins as Mr. Tyree
- Henry Thomas as Tim Wheddon
- D.J. Cotrona as Noodles
- Cullen Moss as Rooster
- Luke Benward as Alan at 14
- Gavin McCulley as Starks
- Jose Lucena Jr. as Berry
- Keith D. Robinson as Captain Stone
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
28%
Tomatometer
Rotten
What starts as a charming anachronism %u2014 pens, paper and the postal service in an impersonal digital age %u2014 becomes tedious as Hallstrom is reduced to interminable, repetitive montages covering the many months that the pair are apart.
Ian Buckwalter, NPR
Rotten
A sucker for a cheap sob, it left me cold.
Cath Clarke, Time Out
Fresh
The biggest surprise here is Tatum, whose butch reticence has never been put to better use: His saddest farewell isn't to his lady but to a man even more uncommunicative than he is.
Melissa Anderson, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Halfway through the movie, I decided a better title for this weepie contraption would be The Hurt Letter. Tatum is stolid and semi-expressive, Seyfried widens her eyes to saucer-size.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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