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As \'\'The Best of Me\'\' arrives, we rank adaptations of the author\'s stories, from least absurd to off-the-charts incredulity

is just as sappy and sad as any other Nicholas Sparks movie, but it also makes relative sense. Jamie (Mandy Moore) has cancer; her cancer is resisting treatment, meaning she wants to do a lot of fun things before she dies—like marrying her reformed-bad-boy beau, Landon (Shane West). Getting married as high schoolers? Extreme. Getting married as high schoolers when one half of the couple is about to be gone forever? Still not the greatest plan, but a little more understandable.

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