The Longest Ride (2015)
Directed by George Tillman Jr.
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
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Back in the past, though, Huston and Chaplin show hints of timeless charm, enlivening the material not unlike the way Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling almost sold the hokum of The Notebook .
Like “The Notebook,” the Sparks' film adaptation that remains the best of a bad lot, “The Longest Ride” has two parallel love stories.
This second romance, recalling the earlier Sparks weeper The Notebook, comes courtesy of Alan Alda’s lovable codger Ira, whom Luke and Sophia rescue after he crashes his car through a highway guardrail.
As in The Notebook and that one with James Marsden, The Longest Ride switches between a romance in the present and a parallel relationship in the past.
Spurred on by the success of 2004's The Notebook , the writings of Nicholas Sparks have spawned a string of drippy romances including Dear John , The Lucky One and Safe Haven , with George Tillman Jr’s film marking the tenth entry in the series.
Because author Nicholas Sparks ("The Best of Me," "The Notebook") loves hopping between past and present regardless of if it makes sense, the 128-minute "The Longest Ride" also features Sophia becoming pals with an ailing old man (Alan Alda).
Even the male lead being a more famous actor’s son is classic Sparks adaptation stuff (see also: Scott Eastwood in The Longest Ride).
When Elizabeth meets Officer Wickham (Jack Huston, of “The Longest Ride” ) and learns of his bad history with Darcy, she thinks her opinions are justified—and that perhaps Wickham could become something more.