The Last Song (2010)

Warning: Spoiler ahead.

Brother and sister

This film is, in modern lingo 'totally so sad'. But really more accurately it is a terrific tear jerk-er you might dislike for manipulating your swelling see-sawing emotions. I mean who wouldn't be upset at seeing a young girl or boy lose their father to the scourge of cancer. They really don't have to do much on screen and they've got me right on board, bring on the next tear.
Having said that I didn't think Miley Cyrus's acting was as bad as some of the adult intelligentsia put her down for. She is as teenagie on screen as the next girl I know very close to home and has that very familiar behavior pattern established to a tee: storm out when any verbal exchange is not going their way or when she discovers that the shape of reality doesn't match her expectations.
Her younger brother played by Bobby Coleman is very good and so is her dad, Greg Kinnear and the movie is beautifully composed on the screen in a lovely seaside setting all with stirring songs and music. Overall wholesome family entertainment and thankfully without the usual compulsory foul language.