Starring Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried and Richard Jenkin Directed by Lasse Hallstrom Savannah Curtis (Seyfried) was on spring break when she first met John Tyree (Tatum), a US solider who was home on temporary leave. For the smitten soldier it was practically love at first sight. Over the course of the next seven years, when each deployment seemed more treacherous than the last, the love letters that Savannah sent to John were one of the only things that kept him going. However, those loving and heartfelt correspondences would ultimately yield consequences that neither the brave soldier nor his one true love could have ever foreseen.