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Safe Haven

2013

Lasse Hallström

Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons ...

5.3

6,179

Romance. Drama. Thriller When a mysterious young woman named Katie (Julianne Hough) washes up in the small North Carolina town of Southport, she is determined not to make personal relationships. That is, until she meets Alex (Josh Duhamel), a kind-hearted widowed store owner, struggling to raise his two children. When Katie feels herself falling for him, she must choose between familar safety and the perils that come with love... Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Either the filmmakers were out of their minds, or they must think we're out of our minds to buy into this schmaltz (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Safe Haven offers an unsurprising but not unsatisfying tour through recognizable Sparkville terrain"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A terrible thing to do to your Valentine (...) Rating: ★ (out o four)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Anna Smith Empire	"Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and Chocolat man Hallström is an old pro at navigating this kind of undemandingly dramatic yarn and does a pretty fine job with Sparks' story. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"This one blends the scented candles of a daytime soap with the tamer aspects of a middling thriller. Some folks will bring Kleenex. Others will need NoDoz"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The picture-postcard location of Southport, N.C., is the film's strong suit (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"I like Duhamel, and in her first straight-up dramatic role Hough does well enough, though her singing and/dancing career thus far has trained her to oversell, as opposed to sell, as opposed to act naturally (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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