Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama-war film starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. It was released theatrically in North America on February 5, 2010. Directed by Lasse Hallström, the film is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's novel of the same name. It follows the life of a soldier after he falls in love with a young woman. They decide to exchange letters to each other after he is deployed to the war. John Tyree is a young Sergeant from the army special forces ,He goes on to compare himself to a coin in the United States Military and states that the last thing he thought about before he blacked out, was "You." Savannah Lynn Curtis is a college student on spring break. In a matter of days, Savannah and John fall in love. John meets Savannah's family as well as her neighbor, Tim Wheddon and Tim's autistic son, Alan, who looks up to Savannah. Savannah meets and be friends John's father , a reclusive man who is only interested in his coin collection. Savannah mentions to John that his father, like Alan, may have autism. This upsets John, who believes Savannah is calling his father retarded. He is so caught up in his anger that he gets into a fight with Savannah's rich neighbor, Randy, accidentally punching Tim in the process. John apologizes to Tim the next day and leaves Savannah a note, seeking her forgiveness before his leave comes to an end. Savannah gets the note, and they spend one last day together. John returns to the Army and he and Savannah begin a long-distance relationship through handwritten letters. John believes this year will be his final year of enlistment but, following the September 11 attacks, is torn between returning home and his sense of duty. He is given a weekend off, which he spends with Savannah and her family as well as with his father. He asks Savannah for her opinion on whether or not he should re-enlist, and she tells him to do what he feels is right. Like the rest of the soldiers in his unit, John chooses to re-enlist. Over the next two years, John faces dangerous missions and begins to live almost entirely for Savannah's letters. John and Savannah find themselves drifting apart. Finally, Savannah, sad but resigned, sends John a Dear John letter, informing him that she has become engaged to someone else. John, deeply depressed and frustrated by the news, believes she is engaged to Randy.John is informed that he is being sent home for the first time in six years, because his father is dying. John spends the last few days of his father's life by his side and writes him a letter. . He tells the story of the first mule coin he found and how it brought father and son to a shared passion of coin collecting. They connect in a tearful moment, and his father dies soon thereafter. John goes to see Savannah. He discovers that she married Tim, not her rich friend. Savannah tells him Tim has cancer and is not allowed to leave the hospital. John visits Tim in the hospital, where Tim apologizes to John. Tim also admits that Savannah still loves John. John sells his father's coin collection, anonymously donates the money from the sale to finance Tim's drug. The next scene shows John back with his unit, using the mule coin in a coin toss with his fellow soldiers. John then gets an unexpected letter from Savannah. She writes about how she received an anonymous donation to help Tim with his treatment to buy him time to say goodbye and thanks him for doing so. Tim died after two months. She expresses that she still wonders where John is and what he is going through, but she accepts that she lost the right to know a long time ago. Moved by Savannah's letter, John gets a new lease on life and decides to leave the Army after his current tour. In the last scene of the film, John walks a bicycle down a block in an American town and stops to chain it up. At that moment, Savannah in a nearby cafe turns to spot him. John turns, clothed in a somewhat transparent shirt, and they lock eyes through the cafe's glass window. Savannah exits the cafe, and they embrace with passion.