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Safe Haven (12A)

Safe Haven (12A)

Drama, Mystery, Romance

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.


The critical consensus

Safe Haven is a blandly ‘vanilla’ film; attractively shot in picturesque locations, peppered with recognizable if unexciting faces, and delivering a simplistic homily about love conquering all that only a teenage girl could love.

**(*)(*)(*)Eddie Harrison, The List, 18/02/2013

Sudsily romantic, sometimes unintentionally hilarious, and bound to be a hit.

**(*)(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 24/02/2013

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and Chocolat man Hallström is an old pro at navigating this kind of undemandingly dramatic yarn and does a pretty fine job with Sparks' story.

***(*)(*)Anna Smith, Empire Online, 25/02/2013

An oasis of niceness.

**(*)(*)(*)Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 01/03/2013

There's nothing in this latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation to recommend it, except, perhaps, its audaciously idiotic final twist.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 28/02/2013

Director Hallström (The Cider House Rules) has been an Oscar contender in the past. What a sad decline, trying to salvage something from pap like this.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)David Gritten, The Telegraph, 01/03/2013

This one even throws a bit of supernatural twaddle into the mix, as if it needed anything else to undermine its credibility.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 28/02/2013

There’s a good twist, the young leads are appealing and anyone who enjoys Sparks’ sincere storytelling will enjoy it, even though it’s overlong.

***(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 28/02/2013

Even though I have had a grudging respect for Sparks's knack for ingenious popular fiction in the past, this latest gushing, smouldering love story is just too ridiculously cliched; his tropes are beginning to look a bit threadbare, and the massive twist at the end is outrageous – and not in a good way.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 28/02/2013

The blandest of the many romantic melodramas adapted from the novels of Nicholas Sparks.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 03/03/2013

An almost unendurably sentimental tale.

Philip French, The Observer, 03/03/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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