Editing A Walk to Remember

{{Short description|2002 coming-of-age romantic drama film by Adam Shankman}}
{{About||the book| A Walk to Remember (novel)|the EP| A Walk to Remember (EP)|the soundtrack| A Walk to Remember (soundtrack)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = A Walk to Remember
| image          = A Walk to Remember Poster.jpg
| alt            =
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Adam Shankman]]
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Denise Di Novi]]
* [[Hunt Lowry]]
}}
| screenplay     = Karen Janszen
| based_on       = {{based on |''[[A Walk to Remember (novel)|A Walk to Remember]]''|[[Nicholas Sparks]]}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Shane West]]
* [[Mandy Moore]]
* [[Peter Coyote]]
* [[Daryl Hannah]]
}}
| music          = [[Mervyn Warren]]
| cinematography = [[Julio Macat]]
| editing        = [[Emma E. Hickox]]
| studio         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Denise Di Novi|Di Novi Pictures]]
* Gaylord Films
* Pandora Cinema
}}
| distributor    = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] (North America)<br>[[Ryman Hospitality Properties|Pandora Cinema]] (International)
| released       = {{Film date|2002|01|25}}
| runtime        = 102 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 102:05--><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/a-walk-to-remember-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmjg3nty| title=''A Walk to Remember'' (PG) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=March 6, 2002 | access-date=February 12, 2016 | archive-date=October 16, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016154251/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/walk-remember-2002-1 | url-status=live }}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $11.8 million<ref name="numbers">{{cite web |title=A Walk to Remember (2002) - Financial Information |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Walk-to-Remember-A#tab=summary |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date=July 31, 2022 |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126072537/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Walk-to-Remember-A#tab=summary |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="mojo">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=walktoremember.htm|title=A Walk to Remember (2002)|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|date=May 2, 2002|access-date=February 12, 2016|archive-date=March 27, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060327233308/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=walktoremember.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
| gross          = $47.5 million<ref name="mojo" />
}}

'''''A Walk to Remember''''' is a 2002 American [[Coming-of-age story|coming-of-age]] [[romantic drama film]] directed by [[Adam Shankman]] and written by Karen Janszen, based on [[Nicholas Sparks]]' [[A Walk to Remember (novel)|1999 novel of the same name]]. It stars [[Shane West]], [[Mandy Moore]], [[Peter Coyote]] and [[Daryl Hannah]], and was produced by [[Denise Di Novi]] and [[Hunt Lowry]] for [[Warner Bros. Pictures]].

The novel's 1950s setting was changed from the late 1990s to early 2000s for the film, as the producers were concerned it might not appeal to teenage audiences. This film was shot from April to May of 2001 for nearly 40 days in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]], with many of the sets borrowed from the television series ''[[Dawson's Creek]]''. The film, like the book, is dedicated to the memory of Sparks's sister, Danielle, whose cancer-afflicted life inspired the story.

''A Walk to Remember'' was theatrically released on January 25, 2002, and grossed $47.5 million worldwide on an $11.8 million budget. [[Rotten Tomatoes]] called the film "wholesome" but at the same time "bland and oppressively syrupy".

==Plot==
In [[North Carolina]], popular and rebellious teenager Landon Carter and his friends leave evidence of underage drinking on school grounds and severely injure another student as the result of a prank. The principal gives him the choice of being expelled or helping the janitorial staff after school as well as tutoring fellow disadvantaged students at their sister school and finally participating in the school play. During these functions, Landon notices Jamie Sullivan, a girl he has known since kindergarten who is the local minister's daughter. Since he's one of the in-crowd, he has seldom paid attention to Jamie, who wears modest dresses and owns only one sweater. She makes no attempt to wear make-up or otherwise improve her looks or attract attention to herself.

Landon has trouble learning his lines for the play. Jamie, who is also in the play, agrees to help him on one condition: she warns Landon not to fall in love with her. Landon and Jamie begin practicing at her house after school, and a spark of affection arises between them. However, when he blows her off in front of his friends, she decides she wants nothing to do with him. Feeling guilty, he starts taking independent initiative to tutor and to rehearse.

On the opening night of the play, Jamie astounds Landon and the audience with her beauty and voice. Onstage at the ending to the play, Jamie sings. When she finishes, Landon kisses her, which is not part of the play. Jamie continues to avoid him until he gives her a new sweater as a peace offering, and Landon defends her after his friends play a cruel prank on her by photoshopping her head onto the body of a prostitute. Landon asks Jamie on a date, but she says her father doesn't allow her to date. Landon asks her father if he may date his daughter. Reluctant at first, he gives in.

On their first date, Landon helps Jamie fulfill her list of things she wants to achieve, such as being in two places at once and getting a tattoo. After that, they go to the docks. Jamie tells Landon about how she experiences belief and how it's like the wind. Landon kisses Jamie and confesses his love for her. Landon's mother discovers a private list of his aspirations, including going to medical school, to which Landon reveals that Jamie inspires him to be better. On another date, Landon asks Jamie her plans for the future. She then confesses that she isn't making any because she has [[leukemia]] and hasn't been responding to treatment. A desperate Landon asks for his father's help in curing her but is disappointed by his reply.

After coming to terms with Jamie's condition, Landon promises to be by her side until the end. One day, Jamie collapses and ends up in the hospital. While there, Jamie gives Landon a book that belonged to her mother. She states that maybe God sent Landon to her to help her through the rough times, and that Landon is her angel. Jamie is given private home care by Landon's estranged father, relieving her father's financial burden. Landon visits his dad, tearfully thanking him for his help. They embrace and are reunited.

Landon is building a telescope for Jamie to be able to see a one-time comet in the springtime. Jamie's father helps him get it finished in time. The telescope is brought to her on the balcony, and she gets a beautiful view of the comet. It is then that Landon asks her to marry him. Jamie tearfully accepts, and they get married in the church in which her deceased mother got married. They spend the summer together, and Jamie dies when summer ends.

Four years later, Landon has finished college and been accepted into medical school. He visits Reverend Sullivan to return Jamie’s mother’s book. Landon apologizes that Jamie did not witness a miracle (an ambition she expressed in the class yearbook). The reverend disagrees, saying that she did and that her miracle was Landon.

Landon visits the docks contemplating the belief that although Jamie is dead, she is with him. It is then that he understands that love is like the wind; you can't see it, but you can feel it.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Shane West]] as Landon Carter 
* [[Mandy Moore]] as Jamie Sullivan
* [[Peter Coyote]] as Reverend Hegbert Sullivan
* [[Daryl Hannah]] as Cynthia Carter
* [[Lauren German]] as Belinda
* [[Clayne Crawford]] as Dean
* [[Paz de la Huerta]] as Tracie
* Al Thompson as Eric Hunter
* [[Matt Lutz]] as Clay Gephardt 
* Erik Smith as Eddie Zimmerhoff
* Jonathan Parks Jordan as Walker
* [[David Lee Smith]] as Dr. Carter
}}

==Production==

===Development===
The inspiration for the 1999 novel ''[[A Walk to Remember (novel)|A Walk to Remember]]'' was [[Nicholas Sparks]]' sister, Danielle Sparks Lewis, who died of breast cancer in 2000. In a speech he gave after her death in [[Berlin]], the author admits that "In many ways, Jamie Sullivan was my younger sister". The plot was inspired by her life; Danielle met a man who wanted to marry her, "even when he knew she was sick, even when he knew that she might not make it".<ref>{{cite web| last=Sparks| first=Nicholas| author-link=Nicholas Sparks (author)| title=Background information on ''A Walk to Remember'', from a speech given in Berlin, Germany for Heyne Verlag| year=2000| url=http://www.nicholassparks.com/LearnMore.asp?MovieID=8#| access-date=12 July 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903013918/http://www.nicholassparks.com/LearnMore.asp?MovieID=8| archive-date=September 3, 2009| df=mdy-all}}</ref> Both the book and film are dedicated to Danielle Sparks Lewis.

It was filmed in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] in the spring of 2001, at the same time that ''[[Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film)|Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood]]'' (2002) and the television show ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' were being filmed there. Many of the sets were from ''Dawson's Creek'' (1998)—particularly the school, hospital and Landon's home.<ref name="DVDCommentary">{{cite video| people=[[Adam Shankman]]| title="A Walk to Remember" DVD Commentary| date=2002}}</ref> The total shooting time was originally 50 days, despite Moore being able to only work 10 hours a day because she was a minor.<ref name="DVDCommentary"/> [[Daryl Hannah]], who wore a brown wig as her character, had received a collagen injection in her lips, which went awry and caused noticeable swelling. By the end of filming, however, the symptoms were less obvious.<ref>{{cite web| last=Shankman| first=Adam| title=Interview with Adam Shankman, Director of "A Walk to Remember" by Rebecca Murray and Fred Topel| url=http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa010902c.htm| access-date=27 August 2007| archive-date=September 30, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930001213/http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa010902c.htm| url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Casting===
Director [[Adam Shankman]] wanted the lead characters to be portrayed by young actors: "I wanted young actors with whom teenagers could connect", he said.<ref name="casting">{{cite web|title=A Walk to Remember—about the film—casting|url=http://www2.warnerbros.com/walktoremember/about.html|website=Warnerbros.com|access-date=6 January 2013|archive-date=October 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022024058/http://www2.warnerbros.com/walktoremember/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Shankman arranged a meeting with [[Shane West]] after he saw him in a magazine. He was looking for someone who could transition from being very dark to very light. He described his choice as "an instinct" he had about West, who would appear in almost every scene and had "to be either incredibly angry and self-hating or madly in love and heroic."<ref name="casting"/> West said: "I don't generally read love stories, but after reading the screenplay, I knew I couldn't wait to read the book so I could truly understand Nicholas Sparks's story and how he envisioned the character of Landon. It's a beautiful story and the characters are very believable, which is what attracted me to the project.<ref name="casting"/>

Shankman said of [[Mandy Moore]] that she "has the voice and the face of an angel" and added that she is luminous.<ref name="casting"/> Moore explained that she was moved by the book: "I had such a visceral reaction to it that I remember not being able to read because I was almost hyperventilating while I was crying." Commenting on the film, she said: "It was my first movie and I know people say it may be cliché and it's a tearjerker or it's cheesy, but for me, it's the thing I'm most proud of."<ref>{{cite news|author=Kaufman, Amy|title=Nicholas Sparks is a master of romance|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-04-la-et-sparks4-2010feb04-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=6 January 2013|date=4 February 2010|archive-date=November 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112033602/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/04/entertainment/la-et-sparks4-2010feb04|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Comparisons to novel==
While there are many similarities to the novel by Nicholas Sparks, many changes were made. On his personal website, Sparks explains the decisions behind the differences. For example, he and the producer decided to update the setting from the 1950s to the 1990s, worrying that a film set in the 50s would fail to draw teens. "To interest them," he writes, "we had to make the story more contemporary."<ref name=Walktoremember>{{cite web
 |last=Sparks 
 |first=Nicholas 
 |author-link=Nicholas Sparks (author) 
 |title=Nicholas Sparks on the Movie Adaptation of A Walk to Remember 
 |url=http://www.nicholassparks.com/Novels/AWalkToRemember/Movie.html 
 |website=nicholassparks.com
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417085418/http://www.nicholassparks.com/Novels/AWalkToRemember/Movie.html 
 |archive-date=April 17, 2008 
 |access-date=12 March 2010 
 |url-status=dead
 |df=mdy 
}}</ref> To make the update believable, Landon's pranks and behavior are worse than they are in the novel; as Sparks notes, "the things that teen boys did in the 1950s to be considered a little 'rough' are different than what teen boys in the 1990s do to be considered 'rough.'"<ref name=Walktoremember/>

Sparks and the producer also changed the play in which Landon and Jamie appear. In the novel, Hegbert Sullivan wrote a Christmas play that illustrated how he once struggled as a father. Due to time constraints, the sub-plot showing how he overcame his struggles could not be included in the film. Sparks was concerned that "people who hadn't read the book would question whether Hegbert was a good father", adding that "because he is a good father and we didn't want that question to linger, we changed the play."<ref name=Walktoremember/>

A significant difference is that at the end of the novel, unlike the film, it is ambiguous whether Jamie died. Sparks says that he had written the book knowing she would die, yet had "grown to love Jamie Sullivan", and so opted for "the solution that best described the exact feeling I had with regard to my sister at that point: namely, that I hoped she would live."<ref>{{cite web| last=Sparks| first=Nicholas| author-link=Nicholas Sparks (author) | title=FAQ on 'A Walk to Remember'—Did Jamie Die?| url=http://www.nicholassparks.com/Novels/AWalkToRemember/FAQ.html#1 |website=nicholassparks.com | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416040410/http://www.nicholassparks.com/Novels/AWalkToRemember/FAQ.html#1 | archive-date=April 16, 2008| access-date=12 March 2010}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{{Main|A Walk to Remember (soundtrack)}}
The film's soundtrack was released by Moore's first label [[Epic Records]] and [[Sony Music Entertainment|Sony Music Soundtrax]] on January 15, 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/only-hope/186210887?i=186211481|title="Only Hope" from A Walk to Remember (Music from the Motion Picture) by Various Artists on iTunes|website=[[iTunes]]|date=January 15, 2002|access-date=February 14, 2014|archive-date=June 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617075909/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/only-hope/id186210887?i=186211481|url-status=live}}</ref> It features six songs by Moore and others by acts [[Switchfoot]], [[Rachael Lampa]] and many more.

==Reception==

===Box office===
''A Walk to Remember'' grossed $41,281,092 in North America and $6,213,824 in other territories for a worldwide total of $47,494,916.<ref name="mojo" /><ref>{{cite web|title=A Walk to Remember.|url=http://www.hollywood.com/movie/A_Walk_to_Remember/420885| website=[[Hollywood.com]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070705021317/http://www.hollywood.com/movie/A_Walk_to_Remember/420885| archive-date=July 5, 2007 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $12,177,488, finishing third at the box office behind ''[[Black Hawk Down (film)|Black Hawk Down]]'' ($17,012,268) and ''[[Snow Dogs]]'' ($13,079,373).<ref name="mojo" />

===Critical reception {{Anchor|Reception}}===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has an approval rating of 30% based on reviews from 105 critics, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The site's critical consensus says: "Though wholesome, the Mandy Moore vehicle ''A Walk to Remember'' is also bland and oppressively syrupy."<ref>{{cite web|title=A Walk to Remember|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/walk_to_remember|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=8 June 2023|archive-date=November 12, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112183554/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/walk_to_remember/|url-status=live}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]] the film has a [[weighted mean|weighted average]] score of 35 out of 100, based on 26 reviews, which indicates "generally unfavorable".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/a-walk-to-remember |title=A Walk to Remember |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=6 January 2013 |archive-date=January 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113143046/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/a-walk-to-remember |url-status=live }}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade A on scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= Cinemascore |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' retitled the film "''A Walk to Forget''".<ref>{{cite magazine |date=July 12, 2002|last=Kepnes|first=Caroline| title=Reviews—A Walk to Remember|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/07/12/walk-remember/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014231334/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,305226,00.html|archive-date=October 14, 2007|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]]|quote=A 'WALK' TO FORGET Moore and West play the archtypal good girl and bad boy|url-status=live|access-date=September 30, 2019}}</ref> Michael O'Sullivan of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote: "If you can't see everything in this film coming from a mile away, then you really need to get out more."<ref>{{cite news |date= 24 January 2002 |last1= O'Sullivan |first1= Michael |title= A Walk to Remember |url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/01/24/AR2005033116784.html |newspaper= [[The Washington Post]] |access-date= October 8, 2019 |archive-date= October 8, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191008025940/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/01/24/AR2005033116784.html |url-status= live }}</ref> [[Stephanie Zacharek]] of [[Salon.com]] wrote: "A vehicle for teen singing sensation Mandy Moore. As vehicles go, it's an [[Edsel]]."<ref>{{cite web |date= January 25, 2002 |author1= Stephanie Zacharek |title= Salon.com Arts & Entertainment {{!}} "A Walk to Remember" |url= https://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2002/01/25/walk_to_remember/ |website= Salon.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040308063456/https://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2002/01/25/walk_to_remember/ |archive-date= 2004-03-08 |url-status= dead }}</ref> In 2010, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named it one of the ten worst [[chick flick]]s ever made.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Romero|first=Frances|title=Top 10 Worst Chick Flicks—A Walk to Remember|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2010/05/26/top-10-worst-chick-flicks/?slide=a-walk-to-remember#a-walk-to-remember|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=28 March 2012|date=26 May 2010|archive-date=August 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816031729/http://entertainment.time.com/2010/05/26/top-10-worst-chick-flicks/?slide=a-walk-to-remember#a-walk-to-remember|url-status=live}}</ref>

Other reviews were more positive. [[Joe Leydon]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote: "As Carter, Shane West makes an appealingly persuasive transition from embittered cynic to earnest romantic. Moore, looking a bit like [[Phoebe Cates]]' kid sister, does a fine job of conveying Jamie's strong religious convictions as one of many admirable elements in young woman's personality. [...] As lead characters discuss their faith—or, in Carter's case, the lack thereof—actors are able to make those conversations sound perfectly natural, enabling pic to avoid any trace of overt preachiness."<ref>{{cite web |date= 24 January 2002 |last1= Leydon |first1= Joe |title= A Walk to Remember |url= https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/a-walk-to-remember-1200551744/ |website= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date= October 8, 2019 |archive-date= October 8, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191008023250/https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/a-walk-to-remember-1200551744/ |url-status= live }}</ref> ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''{{'}} film critic [[Roger Ebert]] praised Moore and West for their "quietly convincing" acting performances.<ref>{{cite news| last=Ebert| first=Roger| author-link=Roger Ebert| title=A Walk to Remember| date=25 January 2002| url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-walk-to-remember-2002| access-date=12 July 2007| work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]| archive-date=October 8, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008022239/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-walk-to-remember-2002| url-status=live}}</ref> The ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' felt that the story "has a fair amount of nuance and charm".<ref>{{cite web|title=A Walk to Remember|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/a-walk-to-remember/Film?oid=1068730|work=[[Chicago Reader]]|date=October 26, 1985|access-date=6 January 2013|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107141319/http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/a-walk-to-remember/Film?oid=1068730|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reviewer Octavio Roca found the film "entertaining" and wrote: "The picture is shamelessly manipulative, but in the best melodramatic sense."<ref>{{cite news|last=Roca|first=Octavio|title=FILM CLIPS / Also opening today|url=http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-CLIPS-Also-opening-today-2879460.php#page-1|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|access-date=6 January 2013|date=25 January 2002|archive-date=January 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102105634/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-CLIPS-Also-opening-today-2879460.php#page-1|url-status=live}}</ref> S. Williams of ''Momzone'' magazine felt that the movie was "everything a chick flick should be" and praised Shankman's direction.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} ''[[Us Weekly]]'' deemed it one of the 30 most romantic movies of all time.<ref>{{cite web|title=30 Most Romantic Movies of All Time—A Walk to Remember|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/30-most-romantic-movies-of-all-time-2012102/20646|work=[[Us Weekly]]|date=February 14, 2012|access-date=6 January 2013|archive-date=January 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127081438/http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/30-most-romantic-movies-of-all-time-2012102/20646|url-status=live}}</ref> In a positive review for ''[[Christianity Today]]'', [[Jeffrey Overstreet]] appreciated how "[t]he main character is portrayed as a Christian without being [[psychopathic]] or holier-than-thou".<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Overstreet| first=Jeffrey| title=A Walk to Remember| magazine=Christianity Today| date=23 January 2002| url= http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/walktoremember.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080503054047/http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/walktoremember.html | archive-date=May 3, 2008 }}</ref>

==Accolades==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! align="left" | Year
! align="left" | Ceremony
! align="left" | Category
! align="left" | Recipients
! Result
|-
| rowspan="4"|2002
| [[2002 MTV Movie Awards|MTV Movie Awards]]
| [[MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance|Best Breakthrough Female Performance]]
| [[Mandy Moore]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"|[[2002 Teen Choice Awards|Teen Choice Awards]]
| Choice Breakout Movie Actress
| Mandy Moore
| {{won}}
|-
| Choice Movie Chemistry
| [[Shane West]] and Mandy Moore
| {{won}}
|-
| Choice Movie Liplock
| Shane West and Mandy Moore
| {{nom}}
|}

==Home media==
''A Walk to Remember'' was released by [[Warner Home Video]] on [[DVD]] on July 9, 2002.<ref name="numbers" /> The DVD contains two commentaries, one featuring Shane West, Mandy Moore, and director Adam Shankman; the second featuring screenwriter Karen Janszen and author Nicholas Sparks. Also included is the music video for Moore's single "[[Cry (Mandy Moore song)|Cry]]", and the film's theatrical trailer.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tyner|first=Adam|title=A Walk To Remember|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/4166/walk-to-remember-a/|website=[[DVD Talk]]|access-date=6 January 2013|date=3 July 2002|archive-date=June 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609004820/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/4166/walk-to-remember-a/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Walk to Remember by Adam Shankman|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-a-walk-to-remember-mandy-moore/6210565|website=Barnes & Noble|publisher=Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Inc.|access-date=15 December 2015|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222092045/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-a-walk-to-remember-mandy-moore/6210565|url-status=live}}</ref> A "Family-Edited Version" was later released on December 24, 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon.com: A Walk to Remember|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008DDHM/|website=[[Amazon.com]]|date=December 24, 2002 |access-date=15 December 2015}}</ref>

[[Shout Factory]] released the film on [[Blu-ray]] on December 13, 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://shoutfactory.com/products/a-walk-to-remember-collector-s-edition | title=A Walk to Remember &#91;Collector's Edition&#93; | access-date=June 26, 2023 | archive-date=June 26, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626214529/https://shoutfactory.com/products/a-walk-to-remember-collector-s-edition | url-status=live }}</ref>
===In other media===
In the [[HBO]] television series ''[[Entourage (U.S. TV series)|Entourage]]'', the character of [[Vincent Chase]] ([[Adrian Grenier|Adrien Grenier]]) was credited as having a small supporting role in the film. In the fictional ''Entourage'' universe, Chase had an on-set relationship with Moore during the filming of ''A Walk to Remember''.{{Citation needed|reason=is this really noteworthy?|date=July 2022}}

==Remake==
In 2022, Moore said that she would love to see a new version of ''A Walk to Remember'' and she envisions [[Olivia Rodrigo]] playing the character she had played.
In March 1, 2025, Monarch Media confirmed that a remake is officially in development.<ref>{{cite news|last=Evangelista |first=Jessica Ann |title=‘A Walk to Remember’ remake officially in the works |url=https://entertainment.inquirer.net/599506/a-walk-to-remember-remake-officially-in-the-works/ |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |access-date=March 1, 2025}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[Love Story (1970 film)|Love Story]]'' (1970), a film with similar theme

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0281358}}
* {{Mojo title|walktoremember}}

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