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The latest Nicholas Sparks' adaption that you must see!

Before going to see a movie I try and keep my expectations under wrap. I’m a firm candidate for building up expectations, and willing for a movie to sweep me off my feet. When the movie doesn’t quite kick to this standard, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed.

Recently I’ve started leaving my expectations at the cashier counter, and enjoying the fact that I’ve only spent around £3 (Thanks Orange Wednesdays) around the same price you’d pay for a half decent sandwich.

However, now I face my first stumble. As I have already built up a bundle of hopes for this one movie. 'The Lucky One' – The adaptation of the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks, the author of ‘The Notebook’, ‘Dear John’, and ‘The Last Song’, and to note - some of my most beloved.

‘The Lucky One’ appears to target the same rom-com lovers who indulge in a deep thought provoking tearjerker. Zac Efron ("17 Again," "Charlie St. Cloud") stars alongside Taylor Schilling (TV's "Mercy") and Blythe Danner ("Meet the Parents" franchise).

U.S Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, holding the one thing he believes has kept him alive – a photograph he found of a woman, a woman he has not yet met. He searches to discover her name – Beth (Taylor Schilling) where she lives, and then turns up one day at her door. After a brief introduction he ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Beth has a complicated and misleading life, which leads to her have her doubts about Logan. Yet as time passes the two develop a romance and a friendship that will touch may hearts.

Certificate: 12

Release Date: 2/5/2012

Starring: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner

Director: Scott Hicks