The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Gene (Brian Simmermacher) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Sentenced to community service and membership in his school's drama club, Gene is forced to seek help from Tommy (Jesse Fretwell), the conservative, religious, plain-Jane daughter of the town's Baptist minister (Kate Marie Davis). When the two students begin to fall in love, Tommy struggles with the drop in popularity that his new friendship brings, while Gene is forced to deal with her strict father and a secret that she's keeping from her schoolmates. The New Guitar, which co-stars Oldsmobile, is the second of Sparks's novels to make it to the big screen after Message in a Bottle (1999). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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