Last Song (2010)

"The three parallel love stories of daughter and dad, girlfriend and boyfriend, sister and brother, are nicely handled.  Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making...  Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

Editor's Note Miley Cyrus stars as a teenager who reconnects with her father years after her parents go through a nasty divorce in this adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel. The novelist also provides the screenplay for the production, which is directed by Julie Ann Robinson.

	Kelly Preston
	Greg Kinnear
	Liam Hemsworth
	Bobby Coleman
	Miley Cyrus
	Hallock Beals
	Melissa Ordway - Co-Star
	Nick Lashaway - Co-Star
	Todd Smith - Co-Star
	Carly Chaikin - Co-Star
	Adam Barnett - Co-Star
	Michael Jamorski - Co-Star
	Carrie Malabre - Co-Star
	Stephanie Leigh - Co-Star
	Phil Parham - Co-Star
	Anthony Paderewski - Co-Star
	April Moore - Co-Star
	Lance E. Nichols - Co-Star
	Bonnie Johnson - Co-Star
	Nick Searcy - Co-Star
	Kate Vernon - Co-Star
	Jeff VanWie - Screenwriter
	Deborah Binkley - Costumes
	Julie Callihan - Makeup Designer
	Tena Parker Baker - Hairstylist
	CIS Visual Effects Group - Visual Effects Designer
	Rhoda Griffis - Co-Star
	Julie Hewett - Makeup
	John Lindley - Director of Photography
	Terry Porter - Sound Re-Recording
	James Edward Ferrell Jr. - Set Decorator
	Cal Johnson - Stunt Coordinator
	Eric Tignini - Assistant Director
	Dean A. Zupancic - Sound Re-Recording
	Aaron Zigman - Composer
	Nicholas Sparks - Screenwriter
	Nicholas Sparks - Source Writer
	Dara Weintraub - Production Manager/UPM
	Betty Lou Skinner - Hairstylist
	Buck Damon - Music Director
	Sally Boldt - Music Editor
	Jayne Armstrong - Post-Production Supervisor
	Ted Chu - Camera Operator
	Julie Ann Robinson - Director

Chicago Sun-Times
"[Cyrus] can play serious, and she works easily with a pro like Kinnear, whose light comedy skills are considerable..." 03/31/2010

Wall Street Journal
"Mr. Kinnear's musician father, Steve, adds a generous measure of grace." 04/02/2010

Entertainment Weekly
"[H]ere's the revelation: Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making, with an intriguing echo-of-foghorn speaking voice..." -- Grade: B 04/09/2010

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "[THE LAST SONG] will likely provide an unforgettably touching and wonderful film experience for the target teen girl audience....Kinnear is terrific in a tricky role..." 03/31/2010

Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
Now that Miley Cyrus is 17, it's about time she played a 16-year-old. That she does fetchingly in The Last Song, and wins the heart of a beach volleyball champion a foot taller than she is. Well, actually 12.5 inches. She also learns to love her dad, played by Greg Kinnear, whose aura suggests a man easier to love than, say, Steve Buscemi. She does this on an idyllic island paradise off Savannah, Georgia, where her dad is a classical composer whose pastime is restoring stained-glass windows...I was trying to remember the last time I felt the way about a girl that Miley Cyrus's fans feel about her. That would have been in 1959, when I saw Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay. Oh, she was something. A brave tomboy. She was 12, but I could wait. It's a bit much to ask for the same innocence from Miley, who has already had her first World Tour, but the fact is, she does a good job of making her character Ronnie engaging and lovable. That's despite her early Alienated Teen scenes. You know it's an Alienated Teen when it's a lovely day on an island paradise, but she has her hands pulled up inside the sleeves of her sweater and huddles against the chill of the cold, cruel world...The movie is intended, of course, for Miley Cyrus admirers, and truth compels me to report that on that basis alone, it would get four stars. But we cannot all be Miley Cyrus fans, and these days you rarely hear Hayley Mills mentioned. Yet I award the film two and a half stars...To be sure, I resent the sacrilege Nicholas Sparks commits by mentioning himself in the same sentence as Cormac McCarthy. I would not even allow him to say "Hello, bookstore? This is Nicholas Sparks. Could you send over the new Cormac McCarthy novel?" He should show respect by ordering anonymously. But it seems unfair to penalize Miley Cyrus fans, Miley herself, and the next Peter O'Toole for the transgressions of a lesser artist. - Roger Ebert