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The Last Song (film)
The Last Song is a 2010 American coming of age
teen romantic drama film developed alongside Nicholas
Sparks' 2009 novel of the same name. The film was
directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film
directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van
Wie. The Last Song stars Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth,
and Greg Kinnear and follows a troubled teenager as she
reconnects with her estranged father and falls in love dur-
ing a summer in a quiet Southern United States beach
town.
Sparks was approached to write both the film’s screen-play and the novel. Sparks completed the screenplay in
January 2009, prior to the completion of the novel, mak-
ing The Last Song his first script to be optioned for film.
The setting, originally in North Carolina like the novel,
relocated to Georgia after the states had campaigned for
months to host production. Upon beginning production
in Tybee Island, Georgia and nearby Savannah, The Last
Song became the first movie to be both filmed and set in
Tybee Island. Filming lasted from June 15 to August 18,
2009 with much of it occurring on the island’s beach and
pier. The Last Song was released by Touchstone Pictures
on March 31, 2010.Upon release, the film received mildly positive responses
from audiences; it was panned, however, by critics, many
of whom found its screenplay and casting incoherent.
1 Plot
At seventeen, Veronica “Ronnie” Miller (Miley Cyrus)
remains as rebellious as she was the day her parents di-
vorced and her father moved to North Carolina three
years prior. Once a classical piano child prodigy underthe tutelage of her father, Steve Miller (Greg Kinnear),
Ronnie now ignores the instrument and has not spoken
with her father since he left. While Juilliard School has
been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie re-
fuses to attend.
Steve now has the chance to reconnect with his estranged
daughter when her mother, Kim Miller (Kelly Preston)
sends the rebellious teen and her younger brother, Jonah
(Bobby Coleman), to spend the summer with him. Steve,
a former Juilliard School professor and concert pianist,
lives a quiet life in Wrightsville Beach, the small beach
town in North Carolina where he grew up, working on astained glass window for the local church to replace the
one the church lost in a fire. According to the locals, it
was Steve who had (accidentally) set fire to the church
one night.
After arrival, Ronnie becomes miserable, defiant, and
defensive toward all those around her, including hand-
some, popular Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth) whose
introduction involved crashing into her during a volley-
ball match, and accidentally spilling Ronnie’s strawberry
shake on her. She shrugs him off and meets Blaze, an
outcast who lives with her boyfriend Marcus. While at a
beach campfire, Marcus hits on Ronnie and Blaze mis-
takes this for Ronnie flirting with him. Angered by this,Blaze later frames Ronnie for shoplifting, causing her ar-
rest. Later on, Ronnie discovers a Loggerhead Sea Turtle
nest at the beach by her house and while protecting it, she
meets Will again on his volunteer work for the aquarium.
After a night of staying up to defend the turtle eggs from
predators with Will, she discovers he is deeper than she
expected, and begins to develop feelings for him.
The next day, Will takes Ronnie to where he works to
show her the aquarium. After they leave to the beach,
Ashley shows up and tells Ronnie about Will’s past rela-
tionships and how taking them to see the aquarium was
routine of his, making Ronnie doubtful of her feelings to-ward him. Will finds her at the turtle’s nest and they have
an argument about his past relationships. When Ronnie
suggests she does not want to be another girl on the list
and that they should end their relationship for good, Will
embraces her and they kiss passionately, proving his feel-
ings for her as akin to him quoting she’s “not like the other
girls.”
Will, knowing that it was Scott playing around and setting
fire to the church, goes to Steve to apologize. When Ron-
nie comes in hearing this, she walks out and Will follows
where they have an argument and break up. Will leaves.
Fall arrives and Jonah returns to New York for the schoolyear, but Ronnie stays behind to take care of her father.
Leading a slow life, she tries to make up for the time with
her father that she’s lost. She continues work on a com-
position he had been writing (titled “For Ronnie”), after
losing the steadiness of his hands due to his illness. He
dies just as she finishes it.
At his funeral she stands to make a speech but declares
that no words could ever be able to show how wonderful
her father really was. Instead, she decides to share with
them the song she helped finish. Before she sits down
to play, sunlight shines through the stained glass window.
Ronnie smiles and says “Hi, Daddy,” remembering whatshe overheard her father tell Jonah earlier in the movie;
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that whenever light shines through the window, it’s him.
Blaze and other townsfolk offer Ronnie sympathy and
kind words after the funeral outside. Later on, while talk-
ing to the attendants, she runs into Will. He says that he
liked the song she played and that he knows her dad did
too and Ronnie thanks him for coming. Having decidedto attend Juilliard, Ronnie is packing up to return to New
York when she sees Will standing outside. She goes out-
side to see him and Will apologizes to her for everything
that had happened and Ronnie forgives him. Will sur-
prises Ronnie by revealing that he will be transferring to
Columbia in order to be with her and they passionately
kiss.
The end credits show Ronnie driving away in her car and
smiling to herself.
2 Cast
From left to right, cast members Adam Barnett, Nick Lashaway,
and Carly Chaikin make their way to the filming of the bonfire
scene under the Tybee Island pavilion on July 30, 2009.
• Miley Cyrus as Veronica “Ronnie” L. Miller, an an-
gry, rebellious 17-year-old forced to spend a sum-
mer with her estranged father. She later falls in love
with Will.[2]
• Greg Kinnear as Steve Miller,[3] Ronnie and Jonah’s
father and former Juilliard School professor and
concert pianist who moved to Georgia after his di-
vorce. During the summer, Steve reconnects with
Ronnie through their mutual love of music. With
Jonah’s help, Steve also works to reconstruct the cen-
terpiece of the local church, a stained glass window,
after the original was destroyed in a fire. He later
dies of cancer.[4][5]
• Kelly Preston as Kim Miller, Ronnie and Jonah’smother who raised her children in New York City
after her divorce.[3][5]
• Liam Hemsworth as Will Blakelee,[6] a popular and
skilled beach volleyball player, Will aspires to at-
tend a top university and volunteers at the Georgia
Aquarium. He is Ronnie’s love interest.[5]
• Bobby Coleman as Jonah Miller,[7][8] Ronnie’s
younger brother sent along with his elder sister toTybee Island.[9]
• Nick Lashaway as Marcus, Blaze’s abusive
boyfriend who breaks up with her because he wants
Ronnie which lead him and Will to fight at Megan’s
wedding party and the leader of a gang of thugs who
hustle money from beach carnival crowds through
spectacular fire juggling performances.[7]
• Carly Chaikin as Blaze, a rebel[10] who befriends
Ronnie when she is sent to Georgia. Blaze betrays
Ronnie when she frames Ronnie for shoplifting a
watch, but they eventually became friends again.[11]
• Adam Barnett as Teddy, a young thug adept at hacky
sack and juggling, skills he uses as part of Marcus’
crew to hustle money.[12]
• Nick Searcy as Tom Blakelee,[13] Will’s father.
• Melissa Ordway as Ashley, Will’s snobby ex-
girlfriend.[8]
• Carrie Malabre as Cassie, Ashley’s best friend who
aids Ashley in antagonizing Ronnie.[14]
• Rhoda Griffis as a Doctor[8]
• Lance E. Nichols as Pastor Charlie Harris,[8][9] the
kind, devout Pastor of the local church. He was
Steve’s first piano teacher, parental figure, and best
friend while Steve was growing up.[9]
• Hallock Beals as Scott, Will’s best friend who ends
up creating trouble between Will and Ronnie.[15][16]
• Stephanie Leigh Schlund as Megan Blakelee,[8]
Will’s elder sister who is engaged to be married.[9]
3 Production
3.1 Development
The Last Song began when Disney executive Jason Reed
met with Miley Cyrus to discuss her future career
plans.[17] At the time, Cyrus had been known mainly
for starring as a pop star on Disney Channel’s Hannah
Montana, a children’s television series that had expanded
into a globally successful media franchise.[18] As the se-
ries neared its end, Disney hoped to create a star ve-
hicle to help Cyrus break out of the pop persona shehad developed through the franchise and to introduce
Cyrus to older audiences.[17][19] During her meeting with
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3.2 Writing and title 3
Actress Miley Cyrus sits in make-up on set.
Reed, Cyrus expressed a desire to film a movie sim-
ilar to A Walk to Remember , a 2002 film based on a
novel by Nicholas Sparks.[17][20] A Walk to Remember
helped Mandy Moore, then a teen pop star much like
Cyrus, launch an acting career.[17] Disney called Adam
Shankman, director of A Walk to Remember ,[20] who
signed on to produce the potential Cyrus film along
with his sister and Offspring Entertainment production
company partner, Jennifer Gibgot. Tish Cyrus, Cyrus’
mother and co-manager, became the film’s executive
producer.[21] Cyrus’ acting representation, United Talent
Agency, then contacted Sparks, also a UTA client, to ask
if he had plans for a novel appropriate for a film adapta-
tion starring Cyrus.[22][23]
At the time, Sparks had been wrapping up The Lucky One
and beginning to ponder an original plot for his next book.
The author told himself he could “either go younger than
20 or older than 50”, having recently written about ev-
ery age in between. Wary of venturing above 50 again
after his best-seller The Notebook , Sparks had already
been leaning toward writing a teenage story when he re-
ceived a phone call from Gibgot on behalf of the film
in August 2008.[3][22] Sparks recalled, “Jennifer asked
if I had anything laying around? I said no, but funny
you should say that…" Sparks returned with a premise
by the end of July 2008.[3] Once the proposal had been
agreed upon by Cyrus, her family, and Offspring Enter-
tainment, Sparks, with the aid of co-screenplay writer Jeff
Van Wie, completed the screenplay before starting the
book.[17][24] Sparks explained that such an arrangement
was necessary in order to accommodate filming in sum-
mer 2009, as Disney had scheduled,[22] but that “this issimilar to the way it’s gone with movies based on my nov-
els; it’s just out of order.”[17] Sparks and Van Wie com-
pleted the first draft of the screenplay in December 2008,
the first rewrite later that month, and the second and fi-
nal rewrite in January 2009.[22][25] Both rewrites took ap-
proximately one or two days, and Sparks found them rel-
atively simple.[25] The finished screenplay was approxi-
mately 100 pages long.[26] While The Last Song is not
the first screenplay Sparks has written, it is his first tobe optioned for film.[26] The novel was completed in June
2009, the same time shooting for the film began,[22] and
was published on September 8, 2009 by Grand Central
Publishing.[27][28] The plot of the film and novel remained
secret throughout development.[17]
Director Julie Anne Robinsontalks to stunt coordinator Cal John-
son while Liam Hemsworth is coached on beach volleyball.
Julie Anne Robinson signed on to direct the film in May
2009, attracted by the emotion present in the story.[29]
The Last Song is Robinson’s first feature film, although she
is a veteran of television and theater. Robinson previously
helmed episodes of American series such as Weeds and
Grey’s Anatomy and earned a Golden Globe nomination
and a BAFTA award for her work on the BBC series Viva
Blackpool .[21]
In a June 2009 blog entry, Cyrus said she had “always
been a fan of Nicholas Sparks” and that she had been
waiting to do a production separate from the Hannah
Montana franchise “for a long time”, but had not found
the time to do so due to her TV show, music, tours, and
Hannah Montana: The Movie.[30] In order to film The
Last Song, Cyrus’ contract for season four of Hannah
Montana included an extra long hiatus.[31]
3.2 Writing and title
Recognizing the popularity of A Walk to Remember as
both a novel and film, Sparks “put all [his] thoughts into
that, trying to make the story as different from A Walk
to Remember as [he could], but try to capture the same
feelings.”[3] Sparks’ experiences as a father and as a high
school track and field coach also helped shape the plot,
and characters Jonah Miller and Will Blakelee are respec-
tively based on Sparks’ sons Landon and Miles. Sparks
felt Ronnie was the hardest character to write for because
he had “never been a 17-year-old, angry teenage girl”.[32]
Ronnie became a composite character inspired by severalyoung women Sparks has known, such as his nieces.[33]
Cyrus herself influenced Ronnie fairly little, although her
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singing career did inspire the musical elements of the
story.[32] Ronnie plays only the piano andCyrus only sings
a small amount in the film,[17] though she does contribute
to its soundtrack.[34]
Disney did not give Sparks limitations on the topics fea-
tured in The Last Song, which include underage drinking,infidelity, and terminal illness[3][9][32] but Sparks says that
Disney desired to work with him in part because “they’ve
read my novels. My teenagers… don't do bad things. I
just don’t write that. I don’t write about adultery, I don’t
write profanity ... I’ll certainly have love scenes in my
novels, but they’re always between consenting adults.”[3]
Still, Sparks acknowledges that elements of the screen-
play may have been toned down by the director or the
studio after he finished. As dictated by the Writers Guild
of America, Sparks receives full credit for his work al-
though the amount of his original screenplay retained in
the film is uncertain. For example, Sparks says the char-
acter of Marcus, leader of the gang of thugs, was likelyaltered for the film.[3]
The project remained nameless for several months af-
ter Sparks’ initial meeting with Disney in July 2008.[3]
Sparks wrote in a September 2008 online chat that “I have
the idea completed, but no title. That’s common for me
though. Titles come last.”[35] The film was referred to
by the working title “Untitled Miley Cyrus Project”[36] In
March 2009, Variety magazine called “The Last Song” a
“tentative” title.[37]
3.3 Casting
Cyrus chose thename “Ronnie” for her character in honor
of her grandfather, Ron Cyrus, who died in 2006.[32]
Unknown to many the character had first been named
"Kirby" by Sparks and later changed to “Hilary”. New in-
terviews with Sparks reveal he imagined Cyrus in the role
“only a little” during the writing process. The completion
of the screenplay, concerned Sparks that Cyrus would not
be able to successfully execute the role: “The first thing I
thought when I finished the screenplay was, wow, I hope
she can do this, this is a tough role because I'm bringing
you through a whole gamut of emotion and you're just a16-year-old girl who’s done the Disney Channel. Are you
able to do this as an actress?",[26] After visiting the set and
watching Cyrus film, Sparks’ worries abated.[26] To play
the New York teen, Cyrus worked with a dialect coach
to lose her Southern accent[38] and learned to play clas-
sical piano.[39] After she completed filming, Cyrus said
that in a case of life imitating art,[40] she had matured and
“changed a lot” over the course of her summer in Georgia,
similar to the way Ronnie does in the film. “Showing this
movie, I feel like I'm really showing a part of my growth
as a person as well. So I'm really excited for people to see
it.”
[41]
In April 2009, Disney officials chose Rafi Gavron for the
part of Will Blakelee, but switched to Australian actor
Liam Hemsworth by May.[42] On May 18, 2009, the de-
cision to cast Greg Kinnear as Steve Miller was made
final.[42] Kelly Preston’s part as Kim is the first role she
has accepted since the death of her son, Jett Travolta.[43]
After being introduced to Cal Johnson, the film’s stunt
coordinator, Adam Barnett landed the role of Teddy in
May 2009 due to his pre-developed talent in juggling andhackey sack.[44]
3.4 Filming
3.4.1 Move to Georgia
Nobody knows what’s going to happen [...] Georgia wants
them badly, and we want them badly, and by Monday,
there'll be four or five other states that want them badly.
—Bev Perdue, Governor of North Carolina[45]
The Last Song had originally been set in Wrightsville
Beach and Wilmington in North Carolina. Though they
wished to shoot on location, filmmakers also examined
three other states and identified Georgia as the next best
filming site.[29] Georgia’s housing prices were higher, but
the state’s filming incentive package refunded 30% of
production costs such as gasoline, pencils, and salaries.
North Carolina’s package refunded 15% and excluded
salaries of over $1 million.[46] Still, Disney remained in-
terested in North Carolina and offered to film there if
the state would reduce the amount the company wouldsave in Georgia, approximately $1 million, in half. North
Carolina officials searched for ways to accomplish this,
including applying unsuccessfully for state and Golden
LEAF Foundation grants.[47] They also introduced leg-
islation to improve the state’s refund to 25%,[46] which
eventually passed on August 27, 2009.[48] Disney de-
cided to work within existing incentive laws and agreed
to film in North Carolina as long as the film rights they
had bought from Sparks counted as a production cost,
thereby saving the company an additional $125,000 to
$225,000. Then-North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue
set up a press conference on April 1, 2009 to announce
N.C.’s victory. North Carolina tax collectors refused to
consider the film rights, forcing Perdue to cancel the con-
ference at the last second.[47] “I was hopeful to say that
it was coming and now I don't know that I'll get to say
that,” Perdue said. “Nobody knows what’s going to hap-
pen [...] I don't know what figures they got from Geor-
gia, but Georgia wants them badly, and we want them
badly, and by Monday [April 6, 2009], there'll be four or
five other states that want them badly.”[45] Johnny Griffin,
director of the Wilmington Regional Film Commission,
explains: “Disney makes feature films. They also make
television series; they make individual movies for the Dis-
ney Channel. By losing this one project, in essence, we'velost all of those opportunities.”[47] He also notes the loss
of jobs and tourism filming would have created. [47]
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3.4 Filming 5
On April 9, 2009, after three months of deliberation,
the decision to relocate to Georgia was made final.[47]
To determine the specific town, location scouts scoured
the state for an aged, isolated, oceanfront property to use
as the Miller family’s home in the film. After another
three months and the discovery of the “Adams Cottage”
on the southern tip of Tybee Island, Tybee and neighbor-ing locations became the sites of filming in late March,[49]
with the intention of masquerading the area as Wilm-
ington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.,[50] The
locale proved too unique to disguise. “We had a hard
time trying to hide the fact that this was Tybee and Sa-
vannah was Savannah,” said Bass Hampton, the film’s
location director.[50] Filmmakers convinced the screen-
writers to change the setting of the film and to Ty-
bee Island, thus allowing them to incorporate landmarks
such as the Tybee Island Light Station and the Savannah
Historic District.[50][51] The setting of Sparks’ novel re-
mained in North Carolina.[3]
Though other movies havebeen filmed in Tybee Island, The Last Song is the first to
be both filmed and set in Tybee Island.[49] With the city’s
name plastered on everything from police cars to busi-
nesses, Georgia officials predict a lasting effect on the
economy.[50] In addition, The Last Song is estimated to
have brought up to 500 summer jobs[47] to Georgia, $8
million to local businesses,[52] and $17.5 million to state
businesses.[47]
3.4.2 Sets
The Last Song crew members install propane pipes and gas lines
to create a controlled burn for the bonfire scene.
Nelson Coates is the production designer for The Last
Song, responsible for all visual aspects of the movie.
Coates, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for
his work on the Stephen King television miniseries The
Stand , arrived 11 weeks prior to the start of filming to do
prep work.[53] While most of the filming took place on
the natural Tybee Island beach or on pre-constructed pri-
vate property,
[54]
Coates oversaw the re-painting of thepier and the construction of the carnival and church.[53]
Location scouts had searched the entirety of Georgia for
an aged, isolated oceanfront property to use as a home
for the Millers for nearly three months before scout Andy
Young came across the “Adams Cottage” on the south-
ern end of Tybee Island. “It was getting down to zero
hour,” said Young. “Often, it’s about the house. It can be
a character itself in the movie.”[49] The house’s owner,
Sam Adams, welcomed filming as “an opportunity tosort of immortalize the house,” in case it is destroyed
by storms.[55] The two-story, six bedroom house was
built by Adams’ great-grandfather in 1918 and was made
entirely out of hard pine wood with very few painted
surfaces.[49][55] According to Savannah Morning News
reporter Lesley Conn, it “was built in classic rambling
beach style [... designed] to allow ocean breezes to sweep
through wide, wraparound porches into cool, heart-pine
rooms.”[49]
The church set was built over a six-week period in a va-
cant lot on the corner of 13th Street and Sixth Avenue,[56]
near residential homes.[49] The one-room, 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) building seats approximately 80 people
and is estimated to be worth $250,000 to $350,000.[56]
Special-effects coordinator Will Purcell subdued con-
cerns about the church burning scene by stating that the
building would not actually be set on fire. The intended
menacing effect is “all camera angles. It is a safe environ-
ment for actors to do their work.” Several techniques were
used to simulate the fire, including the use of propane
pipes to shoot flames through the church windows.[57] At
the end of filming, Cyrus hoped to fly the church set back
to her family’s estate in Tennessee. Disney agreed to do-
nate the building to the island after Tybee officials lob-bied to keep it, with the condition that its connection to
The Last Song not be advertised.[56] The set will be moved
to a new location and brought up to code for use as a non-
denominational chapel for island weddings; renovations
are expected to cost approximately $600,000.[58]
3.4.3 Shooting schedule
Remnants of the carnival set, such as these flags and light strings,
were re-established to create the illusion that the beach scenes filmed in late July had taken place during the festival filmed in
June.
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Cyrus’ busy schedule necessitated that filming take place
over the summer. Sparks noted, “She’s got a fall music
tour and then she’s back filming Hannah Montana in the
spring again. So the only time she had free in her schedule
was over the summer.”[32] Principal photography began
on June 15, 2009 and finished on August 18, 2009.[59]
Filming did not take place during weekends.[54]
On the first day of production, Cyrus and Hemsworth
filmed a kiss in the ocean.[60] Other scenes which took
place in June included the carnival and volleyball tour-
nament, both of which were filmed on the beach near
the Tybee Island pier.[61] Filming at the pier wrapped up
on June 23, 2009 after shooting the scene in which Kim
drops off Ronnie and Jonah to live with Steve.[62] Scenes
of the church fire were shot on July 10, 2009.[57][63]
Filming at the Georgia Tech Savannah campus began on
July 16.[64] Kinnear finished taping on July 17, 2009.[65]
Wedding scenes and a key driving scene were filmed at
the Wormsloe Historic Site between July 20[66] and July23[67] for twelve hours each day.[66] Driving scenes in Isle
of Hope, Georgia continued to the 28.[68] By July 30,
the movie had returned to Tybee Island for more beach
scenes.[69] Chaikin’s character framed Cyrus’ for steal-
ing a watch on August 6.[11] On August 10, Hemsworth
performed an oil change and Cyrus browsed an upscale
boutique in downtown Savannahfor the movie.[70][71] The
funeral was filmed from August 11, 2009 to August 13,
2009 at the church set in Tybee Island.[71][72] On Au-
gust 15, further church burning scenes took place.[72] The
wrap party was held on the 16,[73] and the cast and crew
arrived in Atlanta, Georgia the following day to spend thelast days of filming at the Georgia Aquarium.[72][74] After
analyzing the area on the 17th, the movie began shoot-
ing in public areas at dawn on the 18th to avoid crowds.
Once the aquarium opened to the public at 10:00, filming
shifted to behind-the-scenes areas.[74]
3.4.4 Loggerhead sea turtles
Due to the conflicting personalities of his protagonist cou-
ple, Sparks faced difficulty in finding a vehicle that would
draw Will and Ronnie to spend time together. “It had
to be during the summer, she [Ronnie] had to be new
in town, and whatever happened had to start in June and
end in August. Because you always want a conclusion,”
said Sparks of his requirements.[3] He mentioned summer
camp or a summer job as typical vehicles used in books,
but dismissed them as unoriginal and boring. “So it’s got
to be original, it’s got to be interesting, and at the same
time it’s got to be universal, that you feel like it could
happen to anybody.”[3] Sparks eventually chose to have
Will and Ronnie bond over a loggerhead sea turtle nest,
knowing that Loggerhead eggs often hatch in August.[3]
The scene of the hatching nest took place during the first
week of August and involved 26 live loggerhead sea tur-tle hatchlings. Sea turtle hatchlings have an innate sense
to head toward the ocean water as soon as they are born,
The loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings featured in the film were
stragglers collected from nests on Tybee and Sapelo Island .[75]
so scenes of the nest hatching had to be taken swiftly. [3]
Said Mike Dodd of the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, the biologist who supervised the scene, the
hatchlings “did all they know how to do: They crawled
down to the water and swam off.”[75] Sparks told an inter-
viewer he suspected filmmakers would digitally add more
turtles to the scene.[3] At the time of filming, the logger-
head sea turtle was listed as a threatened species.[76] The
environmentally friendly theme was an added bonus to
Tybee Island, which was then promoting ecotourism.[49]
3.5 Post-production
The Last Song entered post-production following the end
of filming on August 18, 2009.[59] Automated dialogue
replacement took place in mid-September; Beals and
Chaikin stated they had gone in to record on Septem-
ber 11[77] and September 18[78] respectively. Chaikin
said she had worked for five and a half hours.[78] The
director’s cut was presented to the studio on October 1,
2009.[79] The Motion Picture Association of America re-
viewed the film and issued it a PG rating for “thematicmaterial, some violence, sensuality and mild language”
three weeks later.[80]
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4 Score and soundtrack
"When I Look at You", song by Miley Cyrus, was origi-
nally from her EP The Time of Our Lives released August
31, 2009, but was included on the soundtrack because it
fit the movie well. The song is used in the background of
the film’s trailer.
At the launch of his album Cradlesong on June 30, 2009,
Rob Thomas told the New York Daily News , “My buddy
Adam Shankman, who just directed Miley’s movie, called
me on the phone the other day and was like, 'You have to
write a song for this movie.'... I would definitely write a
song for her [Cyrus].”[81] In the end, however, Thomas
was unable to contribute music to The Last Song, citing
“scheduling problems” as the reason.[82]
The soundtrack features a track by Casey McPherson,
frontman of the band Alpha Rev which signed with Dis-
ney’s Hollywood Records in August 2008. Variety maga-zine’s Anthony D'Alessandro notes that the use of sound-
tracks as “launch pads” for new Disney artists is a com-
mon practice. “A Different Side of Me” by Allstar Week-
end was also included on the soundtrack. They are a
group newly signed to Hollywood Records after winning
the N.B.T. Competition through the Disney Channel.
The soundtrack was released in the U.S. on March 23,
2010.[83][84] Though not featured on soundtrack, Snow
Patrol's 2006 single "Shut Your Eyes" and Feist's “I Feel
It All” also appear in the film . The soundtrack had a ma-
jor increase in sales in the week of the DVD release. The
soundtrack peaked at #104 on the Billboard 200 albums
chart.
4.1 Track listing
4.2 Charts
4.3 Singles
• "When I Look at You" was released as a single on
February 16, 2010. It has peaked at #16 on the US
Hot 100 and #24 on the Canadian Hot 100.[86]
• "I Hope You Find It" is a track from the album. It
received a large amount of digital downloads after
the album was made available for online purchase.
It debuted at #8 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
chart in the week ending April 10, 2010 and peaked
at #5 a week later before it dropped out in the week
ending April 24, 2010. In September 2013, the song
received media attention for being covered by Cher
for her 26th studio album Closer to the Truth.
5 Release
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures originally scheduled
Cyrussings“When I Look at You”during her Wonder World Tour
while facing a screen playing a film clip of Will and Ronnie.
The Last Song for wide release on January 8, 2010, butwas delayed to March 31, 2010.
5.1 Marketing
Upon the release of the novel on September 8, Sparks be-
gan a book tour reaching around 13 cities and gave sev-
eral interviews. During these events, he discussed writ-
ing both the novel and the screenplay.[32] Cyrus and Walt
Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook discussed the film
on September 11, 2009 at the first D23 Expo.[87] The
first clips from the film appeared online on September
11, 2009, interspersed within one version of the “When I
Look at You” music video. The film’s first trailer was in-
tegrated into Cyrus’ Wonder World Tour and premiered
during the tour’s opening night on September 14, 2009
in Portland, Oregon. Midway through each concert, the
trailer was shown on large video screens surrounding the
stage.[34][88] After it finished, Cyrus played a white piano
and sang “When I Look at You” while film clips contin-
ued to play on the screens behind her.[34][40] On Novem-
ber 16, 2009, the first three film stills were released via
the film’s Facebook page.[89] The following day, the film’s
trailer premiered online.[18] The film’s premiere was held
in Los Angeles on March 25, 2010.[90] Cyrus was orig-inally planned to go to the UK premiere of the film,
but due to the April 14, 2010 eruption of the volcano
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Eyjafjallajökullthat blanketed Europe in volcanic ash and
grounded all flights to and from the continent, she was un-
able to attend.
5.2 Home media
The Last Song was released on DVD and Blu-ray on Au-
gust 17, 2010, and on September 6, 2010 in the UK. It
was released in Australia on August 4. As of February 4,
2011, The Last Song DVD has sold 1,584,502 copies in
the US, making $29,016,169. More than the 20 million
budget.
6 Reception
6.1 Critical response
The Last Song was panned by critics. Review aggregation
website Rotten Tomatoes, gives the film an average of
4/10 and a rating of 20% based on 116 reviews.[91] The
critical consensus is summarized: “As shamelessly ma-
nipulative as any Nicholas Sparks production, The Last
Song is done no favors by its miscast and over matched
star, Miley Cyrus.”[91] Metacritic, which assigns normal-
ized ratings to films, The Last Song holds a “generally un-
favorable” score of 33% based on 27 reviews.[92]
Reviewers were critical of Sparks’ and Van Wie’s screen-
play and formulaic storyline. Mick LaSalle of the San
Francisco Chronicle says the screenplay’s faults include
several “scenes that make no emotional sense” and claims,
“The plot construction is weak. Incidents don't flow one
into the next.”[93] When reviewing Cyrus’s performance,
critics acknowledged her stage presence, but were fre-
quently critical of her acting abilities. Jay Stone of The
Ottawa Citizen says Cyrus’s portrayal of angry Ronnie
“consist[s] of pouting and sneering [...] Cyrus doesn't
have a lot of range, but she does have presence.”[94] Rob
Nelson of Variety writes, “Cyrus, alas, hasn't yet learned
not to act [...] But she does show off her consider-
able chops as a pianist and remains reasonably likable
throughout.”[95] A. O. Scott of The New York Times be-lieves that although “her Hannah Montana persona has a
certain aggressive charm”, in The Last Song she “play-
act[s] rather than exploring the motives and feelings of
her character.”[96] Roger Ebert gave the film a mixed
2.5/4. He praised the acting and directing, but derided
the plot and Sparks’s writing.[97]
Kinnear’s performance has been widely praised. A. O.
Scott writes, “it’s nice to see Mr. Kinnear play an en-
tirely sympathetic character for a change [but] his slyness
and subtlety seem wasted in a project that has no interest
in either.”[96] Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune
writes, “Reliably honest and affecting, [Kinnear] fightsoff the waves of corn in much the same way that Tibetan
monk defied the tsunami in 2012.”[98] Glen Whipp of
the Associated Press writes, “Kinnear lends the movie a
dignity it doesn't deserve”.[99] Stone advises, “I'd watch
out for Liam Hemsworth”.[94] Stephen Witty of The Star-
Ledger commends “newcomer Carly Chaikin [who] plays
the “bad girl” [...] with an exciting mixture of wildness
and vulnerability. Halfway in, I began wishing desper-
ately that Chaikin was playing the lead.”[100] Receptionfor Coleman was mixed; Jeff Vice of "Deseret News"
calls him a “hammy irritant”[101] while Jon Bream of the
Star Tribune writes, “The most memorable acting is by
Coleman, 12 [... who] gets a lot of great lines and deliv-
ers them with aplomb”.[102] Despite the negative reviews
from critics, the movie was well received from fans and
audiences with a 66% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes
and with an average of a 7/10.
6.2 Box office
The Last Song was released on Wednesday, March 31,
2010.[103] The film performed well[104] for a Wednes-
day release, garnering $5,125,103[105] on approximately
3,300 screens at 2,673 theaters, for an average of $1,917
per theater,[106] and topping the daily box office.[104] It
placed fourth at the weekend box office, making $16
million behind How to Train Your Dragon, Why Did I
Get Married Too? and Clash of the Titans . Over the
course of its five-day opening, the film earned $25.6 mil-
lion. As of July 15, 2010 the film had made $89,041,656
worldwide.[107]
6.3 Awards and nominations
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