Dear John

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.

Dear John landed poorly with critics, who found it a formulaic Nicholas Sparks adaptation weighed down by clichés and a strangely uninvested direction from Lasse Hallström. Audience scores suggest a warmer popular reception than the critical drubbing would imply, a gap that defines the film's legacy.