You can help us help kids by suggesting a diversity update. The Lucky One promotes the ideas that struggles don't have to define you and that you must learn to stand up for yourself. Also, that love heals, that family bonds are very powerful, and that loyalty matters. But it also perpetuates the notion that women, no matter how capable, need the love of a good man to be able to love themselves.
Almost all of the characters, even the one obviously pitched as the "bad guy," have a soft side. Logan is kind, earnest, and principled, and -- despite some nightmares and sadness -- appears generally intact after the war. Beth is a caring mother and daughter. Together, they're a beacon of niceness.
Gunfight in the middle of a war, with some soldiers shot dead. Innocent bystanders also die. Explosions in war zones. The war scenes in general feel menacing. An abusive man stalks his ex-wife and threatens her when she doesn't give into his demands. Later, he gets into a fight with another man and brandishes a gun at him. A harrowing scene shows people about to fall into a raging river during a storm. Couples kiss passionately in the shower and in a bedroom while they remove each other's clothing shot in close-ups that don't show private parts ; sex is implied on more than one occasion.
One scene depicts the woman with her hand down the back of a man's pants, with the upper part of his backside showing. Adults drink on dates and at social functions. The movie's bad guy gets drunk and starts a fight with another man. Beth gets a little tipsy during a date. Parents need to know that, like other romances based on Nicholas Sparks novels -- including The Last Song , Dear John , and The Notebook -- The Lucky One is filled with swoony, sentimental moments involving a pair of star-crossed lovers kept apart by their life challenges and personal struggles.
Expect some gauzy love scenes mostly kissing and early stage undressing -- no private parts are seen, though the top of a male backside is visible ; infrequent swearing "s--t," etc. Although the movie means well overall, it does suggest that women need the love of a good man to be able to love themselves.
Add your rating See all 12 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 17 kid reviews. Logan Thibault Zac Efron returns from his third tour of duty shell-shocked, having survived not one but a handful of close calls. The biggest one was a face-off with the enemy that left many dead. But somehow, Logan was spared when he stopped to pick up a picture on the ground -- the good-luck charm of an unknown soldier.
The photo is that of a beautiful woman, whose soothing face Logan thinks somehow protects him from harm. When he goes home, Logan makes it his mission to find the woman, Beth Taylor Schilling.
While winning her heart isn't hard, keeping it is. Efron and Schilling share an easy chemistry, which is key, of course. But as a romantic story on its own, The Lucky One doesn't hold a candle to the classics of the genre -- The English Patient if we're to get lofty, or even An Officer and a Gentleman.
Those movies boast a complexity that evokes the complications of life on two battlefield fronts: love and war. The Lucky One isn't so lucky or, rather, well crafted. It's bogged down by hokey dialogue and stilted acting. Efron, who actually has shown some talent, appears to think "wooden" passes for "mysterious" here.
Only Blythe Danner , as Beth's grandmother, is unscathed. She's witty and breezy and soulful in all the right moments, and we're lucky for that. Families can talk about why romantic movies often seem to have female characters who can't seem to find their strength and center without first falling in love.
What's the message here? How does The Lucky One depict romance and relationships? Why change the state? Any way the love making scenes were very good so if you are just going for the romance you won't be disappointed.
I think that Zack played Logan well. He had a depth that I didn't expect as an actor even though he didn't have much to work with. It wasn't my favorite movie but it wasn't that bad either. Maybe if you didn't read the book first you might like it better. And for those who haven't read it but liked the movie, you should read it.
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He never gets around to explaining her mistake. That sort of mistaken identity is commonplace in the movies and rare in life, and for that matter, wasn't Lucille Ball incessantly being mistaken for ever she needed to be — or not to be?
Ellie the nana is played by Blythe Danner as a reminder of what a cheery, common-sense presence she can be. Just sitting there in the same room, she intuits in a few seconds that this strange man, who has drifted in from nowhere, is husband material.
Too bad she wasn't around to shoo Keith off the property. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true. You can easily imagine how many ways this story would probably go wrong in real life, but who wants to see a movie where a Marine leans over to pick up a photo and is blown up?
And a mom trying to raise her son and feed lots of hungry dogs while her abusive ex-husband gets drunk and hangs around? That kind of stuff is too close to life.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Rated PG for some sexuality and violence. Blythe Danner as Ellie. Riley Thomas Stewart as Ben. Taylor Schilling as Beth. Jay R. Ferguson as Keith. Zac Efron as Logan.
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