Universal Film Issue 9 - 2013
Julianne Hough - on the set of Safe Haven
SAFE HAVEN S REVIEW
o the story is this. A worriedlooking young mystery woman’s running off, jumping on a bus at the Boston depot at the last minute, just evading a police detective, who is then doggedly trying to track her whereabouts by scrutinising public video footage. The woman, Julianne Hough, hoves up at an idyllic, all-American coastal town, popping in for a takeaway of coffee at the local grocery store and meeting drop-dead gorgeous hunk Josh Duhamel, a widower with two young kids,
his wife having died of cancer. Julianne (Footloose, Rock of Ages) is an ice-cool blonde, cold and frosty and a shade hard looking. Hitchcock might have liked her, though she’s on the petite side. She just wants to be alone, and rents a rundown cabin the woods, but has to take a job waiting table at the local café, where everyone is really nice and friendly. Then one day, Julianne comes home to find another mystery woman’s peering into her window, supposedly a kindly neighbour, though Julianne’s been told
by her realtor she has no neighbours. Odd that. However, Josh looks kindly at Julianne, offers her a bit of help and an old bike, she refuses, he insists, she refuses, he gets a bit hurt feeling, she…, well, you know. And the kids pretty much adore her too. And the mystery woman becomes friends too. But then the detective starts closing in on her… A glossy, escapist romantic wallow is on the menu for Nicholas Sparks’s latest bestselling novel to screen transfer. Fans of Message in a Bottle, The Notebook, Dear John and The Lucky One
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