Story:
After a hazing incident goes wrong, popular but rebellious Landon Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is participation in various after-school activities, including the spring musical, where he meets bookish, uninvasively religious Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), the only daughter of his mother's (Daryl Hannah) church's pastor, Reverend Sullivan (Peter Coyote). Landon has difficulty learning his lines, so he asks Jamie to assist him. She agrees under one condition: Landon must promise not to fall in love with her. Given her highly conservative manner of dressing and social standing, Landon practically scoffs at the request.
Landon and Jamie begin practicing together at her place after school. Spending more time together, friendship blossoms. Landon is gradually told by Jamie of a wish list of what she aspires to accomplish in life, however the fragile rapport is broken when Landon mockingly acknowledges her in front of his popular friends, and Jamie, disappointed by his reaction, refuses to continue the sessions. Landon decides to learn the script on his own, and performs small acts of kindness he hadn't been inspired to do before in hopes of earning Jamie's forgiveness. She remains adamant.
During the scene the two share in the school play, Landon is surprised when Jamie, in an elegant dress and makeup, reveals herself onstage and sings. This seems to make Landon come to a realization concerning his feelings for Jamie.In following days, Landon continues trying to approach Jamie, this time as a romantic interest, but she continues to reject him. The breaking point comes when a few of Landon's friends, along with a vindictive Belinda, play a malicious joke on Jamie, When Landon comes to her aid, renouncing his friends in the process, Jamie finally accepts his advances as sincere and agrees to a date, with her father's begrudging permission. From that day forward, the two begin to fall in love, as Landon helps her accomplish things on her wish list.It slowly becomes apparent that Jamie's faith in him has Landon believing in his ability to be a better person: he now wants to go to college and enter medical school where he once merely wanted to flee his small town life.
However, in face of the depth of their relationship, Jamie reveals the secret behind her father's protectiveness to Landon. Later Jamie withdraws while Landon despairs, even driving for hours to ask his rich, estranged cardiologist father to help Jamie. After Landon comes to terms with the reality of Jamie's condition and in the face of his insistence in being with her, the pair make up. Meanwhile Landon continues to fulfill the wishes on Jamie's list, including building her the telescope. Jamie is released from the hospital, revealing that Landon's father has paid for her to continue receiving private health care at home. Landon once again drives out to see him and breaks down crying after thanking his father. After watching a comet she had been expecting via said telescope together, Landon proposes to her, unwilling to let her time run out before her number one wish is fulfilled. They marry in the church she had dreamed of, with all their friends in attendance and her father officiating the service. The two of them live a short, happy life together until Jamie dies. Four years later, Landon is seen visiting Jamie's father, having been accepted into medical school. Reverend Sullivan tells him that he and his mother are proud of him entering medical school and that he is sure that Jamie would have been proud of him too. Landon expresses his sorrow that Jamie never got to witness a miracle like she always wanted, but Reverend Sullivan tells him that she did and it was Landon. At the end of the movie, Landon is seen walking on the docks and reminiscing about how Jamie saved him by teaching him about life and that even though he'll always miss her, he can feel her love.
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