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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 screen... read more read more...play for the production, which is directed by Julie Ann Robinson. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

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DVD Release Date: August 17, 2010

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  • May 27, 2012
    It is a funny way to create a movie. "Lets write a movie as a vehicle for Miley Cyrus to initiate her adult acting career". Nevertheless it is good fodder if you are a romantic -- what does it say in the summary? "...first loves and second chances".
  • August 8, 2011
    Miley Cyrus stars in this movie full of bad acting. Basically, she meets her father, feels like she's about to kill him when she discovers he has cancer and he never told her about a month later, she breaks up with her boyfriend because he's a chick magnet, her rage over her fath... read moreer grows excruciatingly, then all of a sudden her father dies and she suddenly feels sorry for him and decides to beat on her boyfriend in a PG rated fashion in her PMS-ic anger. Did I mention the acting is awful?
  • June 23, 2011
    I don't understand how people cannot find this film completeley and utterly heart wrenching. A beautifuly written love story by one of my favourite authors of all time. His films never fail to amaze me and this one was outstanding. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hensworth are adorable toge... read morether and the story had me in tears. You don't expect it (if you haven't read the book) Nothing short of poignant and such a wonderful cast. A great film!
  • May 21, 2011
    Miley Cyrus cannot act and the story is the same crap Sparks spits out in every book.
  • May 3, 2011
    Mopey and maudlin. Miley Cyrus doesn't have what it takes carry a picture and while the film has a beautiful setting the story is trite. Greg Kinnear is good but not in the story enough to save it.
  • March 13, 2011
    A cheesy and boring romance, but a lot of woman will leave satisfied, not dragged along men.
  • January 10, 2011
    Well, being a girl I'm supposed to be all gooey over Nicholas Sparks' novels-in-to-movies.. but I'm not. This movie wasn't great. Miley is like thee worst actress ever and it was kind of sad. What's the deal with Nicholas killing everyone off?!
    Total chick flick, if you enjoy th... read moreat sort of thing, you'll enjoy this one.
  • December 26, 2010
    Wonderful movie. It will make you laugh, cry & fall in love. Miley Cyrus did a wonderful job in this movie as did Greg Kinnear. Liam was just too cute as well :) Go see this movie. This is a good movie for everyone who believes in family and love :) With Nicholas Sparks, you can'... read moret go wrong :)
  • November 4, 2010
    Miley Cyrus is tragically miscast and way out of her depths in this mawkish drivel. I don't really understand the appeal of Billy Ray Cyrus' achy-breaky star progeny. The girl's all teeth. Her acting repertoire from her gigantically popular Disney TV series and movies has lead Cy... read morerus to the motto that bigger is better. She plays every scene much louder and bigger than required, mistaking volume for drama. I don't think (right now at least) that she has the acting capabilities to carry a drama, let alone a drama weighed down by so much overly serious, heavy-handed material. But then heavy-handed is a Nicholas Sparks trademark, same with someone dying of a terminal disease by film's end (the streak continues). What's remarkable about The Last Song's ineptitude is that Sparks wrote the screenplay and the novel at the same time, tailoring it specifically for Cyrus. The part was written with her in mind, which makes the failure even larger. Cyrus cannot do teenage angst to save her life. If you wanted a moody, angst-driven, hip-to-be-square, believable young actress, then they should have hired Kat Dennings (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist). Cyrus is a troubled teen who mopes all summer, forced to spend time with her divorced father (Greg Kinnear, fighting to find some dignity in the film) before, well, you can guess where we're headed. For melodrama, it all comes across as fairly dull and sterile (PG-13: wrestling in mud, PG: throwing mud). What's even worse is that the titular "last song" Cyrus performs to honor a fallen loved one is powerfully bland. And yet I have the sneaking suspicion this stab at expanding Cyrus into adult roles could have been much worse. As it is, The Last Song is a sudsy dud.

    Nate's Grade: C
  • October 16, 2010
    WOW! I never predicted that this movie would be turn into an interesting movie like this... Nicholas Sparks surely can be considered as one of the greatest novelist of all time, he really wrote a great story on this... The story started slowly but not boring, we got introduced by... read more the character and their story with their secret, piece for piece, and I thought that brilliant... Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear shows a great chemistry here, and for Miley with Liam, at least their chemistry was pretty good as a couple here... I love how Nicholas Sparks let the story grow, and a big thumbs up for Nicholas Sparks and Jeff Van Wie as the scriptwriter as they can teamed up together to wrote a great adaptation story... And another thumbs up for Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman, and Miley Cyrus as we can expect her as a future A-class actress if she can level up her acting and not trapped in another usual comedy or usual romantic movie... Overall, I really love the movie, just love it...!!!

Critic Reviews


Lisa Schwarzbaum
September 7, 2011
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

Here's the revelation: Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making, with an intriguing echo-of-foghorn speaking voice, and a scuffed-up tomboyish physicality (in the Kristen Stewart m... Full Review

Mary F. Pols
April 2, 2010
Mary F. Pols, MSN Movies

It's like Dante and Beatrice all over again, with the Georgia coast standing in for Paradise. Full Review

Bruce Demara
April 2, 2010
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star

Sadly, without a single note of originality, Last Song is an awfully long and tiresome tune. Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
April 2, 2010
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

The movie moves Ms. Cyrus from where she was to more or less where she and her handlers wanted to be, and Mr. Kinnear's musician father, Steve, adds a generous measure of grace. Full Review

Peter Travers
April 1, 2010
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

So bad it makes The Notebook look like Casablanca.

Andrea Gronvall
April 1, 2010
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

Years on the Hannah Montana TV series have not adequately prepared Miley Cyrus for screen acting, even in a vehicle as unchallenging as this adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Full Review

Jon Bream
March 31, 2010
Jon Bream, Minneapolis Star Tribune

[Cyrus is] believable as Ronnie partly because she, too, is 17 and at a crossroads in her life. Full Review

Michael Ordoņa
March 31, 2010
Michael Ordoņa, Los Angeles Times

For those wondering if the continuing popularity of such exercises might make this one worth the ticket price, the same effect might be achieved by writing names and obstacles (make some tragic) on in... Full Review

Stephen Whitty
March 31, 2010
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

The Original Nicholas Sparks Romance Factory accomplishes its goals. The New Miley Cyrus Acting Company falls a bit shorter. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
March 31, 2010
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Cyrus is ghastly in The Last Song, bad not just in one or two ways, but in all kinds of ways. It was a disservice to the audience, to the material and to Cyrus herself that she was put in this position. Full Review

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    • Steve Miller: Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
    • Kim: We're not perfect. Any of us. We make mistakes, we screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
    • Jonah Miller: Mom says its because she has PMS.
    • Steve Miller: Do you even know what PMS is, Jonah ?
    • Jonah Miller: Of course I do dad, I'm not a little kid anymore. It's the Pissed At Men Syndrome.
    • Steve Miller: Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more.
    • Ronnie Miller: This is your house. Do you live here?
    • Jonah Miller: Ronnie never opened any of ur letter. Mom said it's because she has 'PMS'.
    • Steve Miller: (shocked) do u know what that is?
    • Jonah Miller: I'm not a little kid anymore, it's 'pissed of Man syndrome.'

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