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6.3/10
158K
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A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 8 nominations
Jose Lucena Jr.
- Berry
- (as Jose Lucena)
Keith D. Robinson
- Captain Stone
- (as Keith Robinson)
Mary Rachel Quinn
- Mrs. Curtis
- (as Mary Rachel Dudley)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaOn its opening weekend in the United States, it went to number one, becoming the film to finally end the reign of James Cameron's Avatar (2009), which had sat at the top of the box office for seven consecutive weeks.
- GoofsWhen John is in Hungary when he hears about 09/11 (as indicated by the signs on/near the coffee shop: Tigris Kavehaz, Muvesz...), and the TV news are in Serbian (even using Cyrillic - not Latin - script). This scene is not necessarily a mistake. Although not well explained in the movie, in the book John was stationed in Kosovo. He could simply have been standing outside a Hungarian-style coffee shop there, which explains the Hungarian language on the store front. Serbian is recognized as an official language of Kosovo, which explains the TV news being in Serbian.
- Quotes
John Tyree: No matter where you are in the world,the moon is never bigger than your thumb.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Trailer Failure: Dear John, The Squeakquel and Bad Lieutenant (2009)
- SoundtracksAmber
Written by Nick Hexum
Performed by 311
Courtesy of Volcano Entertainment III, LLC and The RCA/Jive Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Featured review
Disappointing Soap-Opera
In the spring of 2001, the Sergeant of the Special Forces John Tyree (Channing Tatum) meets the medical student Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) while surfing in Charleston during his leave and they immediately fall in love for each other. They spend a couple of weeks together and Savannah meets John's autistic father Mr. Tyree (Richard Jenkins) and John befriends her friend Tim Wheddon (Henry Thomas). When the enlistment period of John and his platoon ends, there are the attacks on the World Trade Center and John and the other soldiers decide to reenlist for two more years. John corresponds with Savannah until she stops writing and two months later, Savannah tells that she will get married.
I had great expectations with "Dear John", based on the previous works of the Swedish director Lasse Hallström. The beginning is nice, with Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum showing great chemistry in a pleasant romance. The reenlistment of John Tyree is acceptable based on a troubled moment of his country. However, the attitude of Savannah getting married with an older guy without any motive is inconsistent with her conservative profile and incoherent with the whole plot, and destroys the so far good romance, turning into a silly and disappointing soap opera. The terrible commercial last scene is corny and awful. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil):"Querido John" ("Dear John")
I had great expectations with "Dear John", based on the previous works of the Swedish director Lasse Hallström. The beginning is nice, with Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum showing great chemistry in a pleasant romance. The reenlistment of John Tyree is acceptable based on a troubled moment of his country. However, the attitude of Savannah getting married with an older guy without any motive is inconsistent with her conservative profile and incoherent with the whole plot, and destroys the so far good romance, turning into a silly and disappointing soap opera. The terrible commercial last scene is corny and awful. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil):"Querido John" ("Dear John")
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- claudio_carvalho
- Sep 19, 2010
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Thư Tình Nơi Chiến Trận
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $80,014,842
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $30,468,614
- Feb 7, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $114,991,723
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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