IT'S NO "SECRET DWARF HOOKER," BUT STILL: I certainly didn't care that much about Safe Haven, this year's obligatory Nicholas Sparks weepie, but Richard Roeper's disclosure that the movie contains a plot twist that he describes as "Bat. Bleep. Crazy." meant some digging was required. Obviously, this reached beyond the obvious "she's on the run from an abusive/stalker-y ex" plotline that's set up in the trailer and the ads. Fortunately, the AV Club has the spoiler, which we'll discuss after the break.
OK, so Julianne Hough runs away from her abusive ex to a small town in the Carolinas, and is nudged by her neighbor (played by Cobie Smulders) toward a relationship with Josh Duhamel, the town's obligatory hunky widower with adorable young children. It is revealed (apparently in the last 5 minutes of the film) that the "neighbor" is actually the ghost/angel of Duhamel's dead wife, who was nudging the "right" new woman to make sure that her husband/family were well taken care of. Personally, I'll stick with A Good Day To Die Hard for my implausible movie needs this weekend, and perhaps Beautiful Creatures if I want something featuring ridiculous accents.
