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 he...