The Boys Are Back (2009)
Directed by Scott Hicks
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
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Director Scott Hicks (2009's " The Boys Are Back ") and screenwriter Will Fetters (2010's " Remember Me "), clearly at a loss for bringing to life one of Spark's least dynamic works, match the slow pace of small-town living with a filmic momentum that roughly resembles stale molasses petrifying on a tree trunk.
Such matters may have encouraged filmmaker Scott Hicks to come aboard, given the relative disappointment of his last dramatic outing, 2009's The Boys Are Back .
Directed by Scott Hicks ("The Boys Are Back," "Shine") from an adaptation by "Remember Me" screenwriter Will Fetters, the movie follows Logan (Efron), a battle-weary Marine who walks from Colorado to Louisiana on a quest to locate the woman in a photo he found in the rubble during his third tour in Iraq.
Directed by Scott Hicks (" No Reservations ," " The Boys Are Back "), it starts during the Iraq war, where Efron's Marine character -- with the very Louisiana name of Logan Thibault -- finds a photo of a certain fetching blonde lying in the desert dust.
The Lucky One actually looks gorgeous, but there's now an assembly line feel to films based on Sparks' novels that neither director Scott Hicks ( No Reservations , The Boys are Back ) nor screenwriter Will Fetters ( Remember Me ) can overcome.
The latest cinematic adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks romance novel, The Lucky One is a messy, tone-deaf, and laughable movie outing, an embarrassment to director Scott Hicks (Shine, The Boys Are Back), a black mark against Zac Efron‘s attempts at becoming a romantic lead, and an unsurprising continuation of Sparks’s ceaseless attack on what passes for a love story these days.