Dear John
Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama-war film starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum. The movie extends to the eventual love between a soldier deployed to war and a conservative college girl.
14 July 1979, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1983, Tampa, Florida, USA
12 May 1995, Franklin, Tennessee, USA
February 25, 1971 in Kingston, New York, USA
25 November 1957, Greenwood, South Carolina, USA
9 September 1971, San Antonio, Texas, USA
23 May 1980, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
March 18, 2011
Dear John is built on mawkishness and it brings everything it touches down to that level. It rubs the metaphor of coins and coin collecting so deeply into the audience face you're sure to have a welt by the time the movie's over.
December 25, 2010
Mawkish romantic melodrama creates no sparks.
July 03, 2010
It's more Scenes from a Marriage than Dirty Dancing.
April 17, 2012
Seyfried and Tatum have absolutely no credibility as a romantic couple.
February 12, 2010
The biggest surprise here is Tatum, whose butch reticence has never been put to better use: His saddest farewell isn't to his lady but to a man even more uncommunicative than he is.
September 17, 2012
The father-son relationship stands out in this sentimental and satisfying drama.
February 12, 2010
Halfway through the movie, I decided a better title for this weepie contraption would be The Hurt Letter. Tatum is stolid and semi-expressive, Seyfried widens her eyes to saucer-size.
July 04, 2010
What starts as a charming anachronism %u2014 pens, paper and the postal service in an impersonal digital age %u2014 becomes tedious as Hallstrom is reduced to interminable, repetitive montages covering the many months that the pair are apart.
April 04, 2011
You could hate it for being cynically tear-jerking... [but] it can't help itself.
April 15, 2010
A sucker for a cheap sob, it left me cold.
February 11, 2010
Indecently exploits 9/11 and throws in autism and canver for unscrupulous measure.
May 06, 2011
It's like a bad soap opera.
