2. GENRE – CHICK FLICK
Often considered an all-encompassing sub-genre, 'chick' flicks
mostly include formulated romantic comedies, tearjerkers and gal-
pal films, movies about family crises and emotional catharsis,
some traditional 'weepies' and fantasy-action adventures,
sometimes with foul-mouthed and empowered females, and
female bonding situations involving families, mothers, daughters,
children, women, and women's issues. These films are often told
from the female point of view, and star a female protagonist or
heroine. This type of film became very prominent in the mid-80s
and into the 90s.

3. CONTINUED
The teenage chick flick genre has become one of the most
popular film genres, targeting primarily a female audience. From
first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst and
alienation. These issues are a convention as the target audience
can relate to them. This genre has changed rapidly, but have still
use the same conventions, such as the 'bimbo' character, the most
popular or the nerd, over the decades.

4. At seventeen, Veronica "Ronnie" Miller (Miley Cyrus) remains as
rebellious as she was the day her parents divorced and her father moved
to North Carolina three years prior. Once a classical piano child prodigy
under the tutelage of her father, Steve Miller (Greg Kinnear), Ronnie
now ignores the instrument and has not spoken with her father since he
left. While Juilliard School has been interested in her since she was
young, Ronnie refuses to attend.
Now, Steve has the chance to reconnect with his estranged daughter
when her mother, Kim Miller (Kelly Preston) sends the rebellious teen
and her younger brother, Jonah (Bobby Coleman), to spend the summer
with him. Steve, a former Juilliard School professor and concert pianist,
lives a quiet life in Wrightsville Beach, the small beach town in North
Carolina where he grew up, working on a stained glass window for the
local church to replace the one the church lost in a fire. According to
the locals, it was Steve who had (accidentally) set fire to the church one
night.
After arrival, Ronnie becomes miserable, defiant, and defensive toward all those
around her, including handsome, popular Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth) whose
introduction involved crashing into her during a volleyball match, and accidentally
spilling Ronnie's strawberry shake on her. She shrugs him off and meets Blaze, an
outcast who lives with her boyfriend Marcus. While at a beach campfire, Marcus hits
on Ronnie and Blaze mistakes this for Ronnie flirting with him. Angered by this,
Blaze later frames Ronnie for shoplifting, causing her arrest. Later on, Ronnie
discovers a Loggerhead Sea Turtle nest at the beach by her house and while
protecting it, she meets Will again on his volunteer work for the aquarium. After a
night of staying up to defend the turtle eggs from predators with Will, she discovers
he is deeper than she believed, and begins to develop feelings for him.

5. As Ronnie falls in love with Will, she also manages to form a better and stronger bond with her father. As their
relationship deepens, Will invites her to his sister's wedding. Later that day, the turtle eggs hatch and her father
collapses. Ronnie immediately has Steve rushed to a hospital and learns that he has stomach cancer that has spread to
his lungs. She decides to start spending more time with her father since he is unlikely to survive much longer. Around
the same time, Ronnie and Will get into an argument after Will confesses that Scott, his best friend, had actually set
fire to the church. She is outraged that he let everyone believe that her father was the culprit. With Will soon leaving
for college, there is no time to patch things up.
Fall arrives and Jonah returns to New York for the school year, but Ronnie stays behind to take care of her father.
Leading a slow life, she tries to make up for the time with her father that she's lost. She continues work on a
composition he's been writing (titled "For Ronnie"), after he loses the steadiness of his hands due to his illness. He
dies just as she finishes it.
At his funeral she stands to make a speech but declares that no words would ever be able to show how wonderful her
father really was. Instead, she decides to share with them the song she helped finish. Before she sits down to play,
sunlight shines through the stained glass window, making her smile, knowing that her father is with her.
Later on, while talking to the attendants, she runs into Will. He says that he liked the song she played and that he
knows her dad did too and Ronnie thanks him for coming. Having decided to attend Juilliard, Ronnie is packing up to
return to New York when she sees Will standing outside. She goes outside to see him and Will apologizes to her for
everything that had happened and Ronnie forgives him. Will surprises Ronnie by revealing that he will be transferring
to Columbia in order to be with her and they share a kiss.