The Lucky One

I knew what I was getting into last night when I watched The Lucky One and I saw

 in the opening credits that it was written by Nicolas Sparks. His books/movies are all predictable which is neither good or bad. With that being said I enjoyed the story and the acting. It stars Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, and Blythe Danner. Both Efron and Schilling did a great acting job in The Lucky One.

In Iraq, the marine Sergeant Logan (Efron) finds the photo of a young woman with the message "Keep Safe X" on the back in the debris of a construction and he keeps it in his pocket. His action saves his life from a mortar fire and he believes that the girl is his guarding angel that protects him.

When he returns to Colorado, he has difficulties to adjust to the civilian life with his sister's family and he decides to seek out the woman. Logan researches the landscape and finds that the place is Hamden, in Louisiana, and he walks with his dog Zeus to Hamden. 

He discovers that the woman is Beth Green (Taylor Schilling), who is the owner of the Green Kennels with her grandmother Ellie (Blythe Danner). When Logan meets Beth, he is unable to tell the reason why he had traveled to Hamden. She assumes that he wants a job that she had advertised and Ellis gives the job to Logan. Soon Logan befriends Beth's son Ben (Riley Thomas Stewart) and becomes close to the family. But her former husband, Sheriff Keith Clayton (Jay R. Ferguson) does not want to make Logan's life easy.

I have said enough. Watch The Lucky One if you enjoy a well-acted romantic drama.