After reading the book, I knew that I had to watch the movie to see if the emotions described by Nicholas Sparks would come through with the same fierceness on screen. I was pleasantly surprised. Safe Haven is about a young woman who is running from her life in Boston and ends up in a small, seaside town in North Carolina. All she wants to do is lay low and hope no one notices her. She rents a small cottage in the woods/grass area which is isolated from most of town. That doesn't last long. The general store owner and his 2 kids notice her and can’t stop thinking about her. She also befriends a neighbor. Her plan of just blending in doesn't work out very well. In a side story, the life she was leaving behind in Boston is slowly catching up to her. Julianne Hough was a perfect fit for this role. She portrayed the battered yet hopeful young woman well having to switch between the two regularly throughout the film. You believe her when she looks like she needs resc