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The Choice

Let your heart decide.

2016 · 1h 51m · PG-13 Drama, Romance
Directed by Ross Katz

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Overview

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

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11%
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Rotten

We the people deserve every nutty coincidence, beautiful disaster, luxurious grief montage, and supernatural final-act reveal. Garbage-entertainment is still entertainment. Why, then, does The Choice almost entirely opt out of its own game?

Dave White, TheWrap
Rotten

You feel manipulated, but not in the I-can't-help-but-be-moved way that these films usually work. By the time its finale rolls around, The Choice has completely undone its own spell.

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten

The latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation may turn off even his most ardent fans.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Rotten

Even when things take a turn, the movie doesn't become more complicated or interesting; we simply start down an equally predictable new track.

Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten

The Choice feels like Mad Libs with some of Sparks' laziest cliches - a romantic rowboat, a colorful small-town carnival, a jealous upper-class boyfriend - and the result is a predictable, recycled mess.

Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly

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