Safe Haven Trailer (2013)

Cast: Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons

Description: Safe Haven is an affirming and suspenseful story about Katie, a young woman who struggles to find love again after she arrives in a small North Carolina town. Her reluctance to join the tight-knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly, she begins putting down roots, and gains the courage to start a relationship with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children. But dark secrets intrude on her new life with such terror that she is forced to rediscover the meaning of sacrifice and rely on the power of love in this deeply moving romantic thriller.

Release Date: 2/14/2013

Genre: Drama

Studio: Relativity Media

Offical Website: http://www.safehaventrailer.com

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	2/14/2013
United Kingdom	Theatrical Wide Release	3/1/2013
United States	DVD/Blu-ray Release	5/7/2013

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03/07 @ 12:00 AM

Keeping up with the movie's inane plot twists makes for a capricious good time, but an unimaginative denouement turns the whole thing into a fool's errand.

Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader

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02/20 @ 12:00 AM

Plods along with dialogue just above the level of crayon scribblings, and the direction by the usually reliable Lasse Hallstrom is dismayingly sluggish.

Rex Reed, New York Observer

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02/14 @ 12:00 AM

On its own merits, Safe Haven is about as satisfying and filling as a Valentine's Day conversation heart, with far less to say.

Kate Erbland, MSN Movies

The latest Nicholas Sparks-derived weepfest, Safe Haven, is being marketed as a Valentine's Day special, but the plot line is closer to a stalker thriller. It's sudsy-scary. It's also not very good.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

Hough doesn't stand a chance against shoddy pacing, horrific editing, and plot direction disastrous enough to make your toes curl.

Laremy Legel, Film.com

Hough emits all the charisma of a personal assistant ...

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice

I hate Safe Haven. It's a terrible thing to do to your Valentine.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Why make a movie when making a Hallmark-card-with-dialogue is so much less risky?

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

Apologies to Hallstrom, but an adaptation of a Sparks novel always ends up being a Sparks movie.

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine

Lasse Hallstrom's new film does exactly what an adaptation should: It turns the original material's greatest flaws into assets.

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

The problem with the romantic Safe Haven isn't that it plays it safe, but that it plays it cheap. It's also about 10 minutes too long. And there's a final twist that, well, if you have any popcorn left by the scene, you'll want to throw it at the screen.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

Like its equally weepy predecessors, it's a pretty-looking, wonderfully facile bit of emotional froth that's likely to clean up at the box office.

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer

Safe Haven is one of those Valentine's Day confections that satisfy your sweet tooth until you get to their weird, off-putting center.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

The best thing that can be said about Safe Haven is there is a cute romance in there somewhere.

Adam Graham, Detroit News

A cinematic valentine you'll be reasonably content to watch on a flight in a year or so.

Sara Stewart, New York Post

It's as though the filmmakers lacked the confidence to stick with the basic story, which served every element needed in a Sparks-infused guilty pleasure.

Michael Granberry, Dallas Morning News

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02/13 @ 12:00 AM

Another Nicholas Sparks-penned romantic potboiler about commitment-shy, G-rated lovers who find romance, overcoming dark secrets and unhappy pasts.

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star

Very little in this movie makes any sense, even as glossy Valentine's Day fare.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Either the filmmakers were out of their minds, or they must think we're out of our minds to buy into this schmaltz.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

It's trash - entertaining and escapist, perhaps - but trash nonetheless.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews

A movie that passably ambles along in generic-melodrama mode before finally insulting audience intelligence one time too many.

Tom Russo, Boston Globe

Safe Haven plays out less like a love story than it does a two-hour audition tape Julianne Hough commissioned to land a lucrative lip-gloss-modeling contract.

Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic

The Nicholas Sparks universe finally gets the crime thriller it deserves, an erratic amalgam of mush and mystery, with an 11th-hour dose of supernatural visitation.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Hallstrom's understated approach clashes with the blunt-force drama of the Sparks story line, which is definitely a matter of taste.

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

Safe Haven offers an unsurprising but not unsatisfying tour through recognizable Sparkville terrain.

Justin Chang, Variety

Routine romantic thriller lacks acting and directing flair.

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

The climactic inferno, which explodes whatever credibility the movie built up, is immediately followed by a cheap, out-of-the-blue supernatural twist. The equivalent of a forged signature, it attests to the movie's essential falsity.

Stephen Holden, New York Times

Safe Haven is passably engaging and almost works as a proper thriller. Then -- wham! Sparks throws that schmaltz pie right in your kisser.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday

The problem is that most of the pieces to the shoddy puzzle ultimately don't fit, making things less believable and successful.

Miriam Bale, New York Daily News

Long on beauty shots, short on depth and seriously intent on tugging your heartstrings. Indeed, it demands you reach for those tissues. Sob.

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

Safe Haven may not be the most dangerous place to spend Valentine's Day - but it's hardly a worthwhile romantic choice.

Claudia Puig, USA Today

This is such stuff as paperback-rack and February multiplex dreams are made on.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune