Is Duty enough reason to live a lie?
| Cast |
Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas, D.J. Cotrona, Cullen Moss |
| Director |
Lasse Hallström |
| Screenplay | Jamie Linden, from the novel by Nicholas Sparks |
| Music | Deborah Lurie |
| Cinematography | Terry Stacey |
| Editing | Kristina Boden |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2010 |
| Produced by | Relativity Media, Temple Hill Productions |
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| Genre | Drama, romance |
| Language | Mild, infrequent, in context |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Prolonged sensitive scene of kissing, implied sex, overall impact is mild |
| Violence | Mild to moderate, moderate blood, infrequent and brief |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | Mild profanities in context |
| Drug abuse | Some alcohol and cigarettes in context |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Atiyyah Kahn  Tedious schmaltz-affair for only the masochistic chick-fliek viewer | 5 |  |
| Die Burger François Bloemhof Geen vonk in die tranetrekker | 5 | |
| Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt No love lost in this mediocre romance | 5 | |
| Box Office John P. McCarthy As sleepy as it is sappy. | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 10 |  |
| eye Weekly Chandler Levack Tatum and Seyfried act their hearts out, but they’re in danger of choking on the treacle. Dear John is better saved for girl’s-night catharsis rather than a Valentine’s date. | 10 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers As for the ladies who think any kind of chick flick is preferable to football, be careful what you wish for. | 5 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs The leads are attractive but that's pretty much it in ''Dear John'', a film that's deserving of being dumped as tactlessly as the title behavior | 6 | |
| Metacritic.com 33 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 97 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing. | 6 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 2242 Netizens The Poor Man's ''Notebook'' | 11 |  |
Average .. 36% | 7 | |