Angered by this, Blaze later frames Ronnie for shoplifting, causing her arrest. While at a beach campfire, Marcus hits on Ronnie and Blaze mistakes this for Ronnie flirting with him.

She shrugs him off and meets Blaze, an outcast who lives with her boyfriend Marcus. According to the locals, it was Steve who had (accidentally) set fire to the church one night.Īfter arrival, Ronnie becomes miserable, defiant, and defensive toward all those around her, including handsome, popular Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth) whose introduction involved crashing into her during a volleyball match, and accidentally spilling Ronnie's strawberry shake on her. 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 a stained glass window for the local church to replace the one the church lost in a fire. Now, Steve 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. While Juilliard School has been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie refuses to attend. Once a classical piano child prodigy under the tutelage of her father, Steve Miller ( Greg Kinnear), Ronnie now ignores the instrument and has not spoken with her father since he left. The Last Song was originally scheduled for wide release on January 8, 2010, but was postponed to March 31, 2010.Īt seventeen, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller ( Miley Cyrus) remains as rebellious as she was the day her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina three years prior.

Filming lasted from June 15 to Augwith much of it occurring on the island's beach and pier. Upon beginning production in Tybee Island, Georgia and nearby Savannah, The Last Song became the first movie to be both shot and set in Tybee Island. The setting, originally in North Carolina like the novel, moved to Georgia after the states had campaigned for months to host production.

Sparks completed the screenplay in January 2009, prior to the completion of the novel, making The Last Song his first script to be optioned for film. Sparks was approached to write both the film's screenplay and the novel.

The film is distributed by Touchstone Pictures. 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 during a summer in a quiet Southern United States beach town. The film was directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van Wie. Source The Last Song is a 2010 American coming of age teen romantic drama film developed alongside Nicholas Sparks' novel by the same name.

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