It reverses the basic American migration story, seen in such movies as The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Lost Boundaries (1949), and even The Dollmaker (1984).
Neill has also played opposite oversized creatures, although in neither of his Jurassic Park adventures did he have to wrestle with the kind of dialogue he's forced to utter during The Vow. Watching Neill in this movie, I felt the same surge of sympathetic embarrassment I suffered while watching Laurence Olivier in The Betsy.