The Brockporter Movie Of The Week - Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks writes these romantic, dramatic, soap operish books and now he is producing movies based on them. His latest is Save Haven a story about a young woman, Katie, who escapes an abusive relationship with her cop husband and flees to an east coast Carolina Village on the ocean. Katie very cautiously starts her life over and meets Alex, a widower with two children, and guess what? That's right, they fall in love.

Meanwhile, psychopath cop husband tracks her down and tries to kill her and guess what? Alex, the new boyfriend saves her.

The movie does have a nice ending which this review won't spoil for you, but it takes an hour and 50 minutes to get there.

Elements of the plot seem a little far fetched and the story line is sparse. For example, Katie, on the lam seems to have no family, no friends, no history other than her relationship with the psychopathic cop.

The creative tension in the movie is driven by Katie's secret of her past abusive relationship and the developing love story with Alex. On a five point scale I'd give this movie a 2.5 or a 3. It's okay, but if you've got something better to do, go do it rather than waste your money and time with this movie.

The movie is playing at the Strand Theater in Brockport, NY.

For more information about Safe Haven, click here.

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