I only give the movie a 10 because I am a fan of Michelle. I think you guys are forgetting 1 important aspect. It's a lot Cheaper to write a book than it is to make a movie. If they put Every detail of that book into the move it probably be like 6 to 12 hrs long.What audience has a attention span that long. It would have cost Lifetime the network 3 times more money to make it exactly like the novel.I hope you people who read the book will cut the TV movie some slack. It was a very romantic movie.Michelle did a good performance of Carrie.She has grown up in this movie.She is not young Dawn anymore in Buffey.Lifetime has lots of good movies like switched at birth and facing the enemy.I hope that you guys will take the time and watch these quality programs.They are geared for couples and more mature families.I have not read the book so I don't know what they left out and don't care.I have a hard time reading anyways so it doesn't bother me.Ladies and guys please watch the movie again and remember what I said and then you will have more appreciation for the Movie.I know when your use to the book it would be nice to have every part. It's not fair to expect any network to spend milllions of dollars to make a movie to everyones liking.Lifetime good job on the movie and keep making more great movies."Lifetime Television for Women" wink wink.I should ask them to pay me for giving their network a plug lol

This is the first time I have seen Michelle Trachtenberg in an adult role. She still looks like a cute kid but her acting talent puts her into the character as a twenty-something. Probably not an Emmy role but notable just the same. The gal is good!The DP got the angles and lighting right, but a note to the costume designer and/or director: She looks good in colors other than black.The story did have a few interesting turns. I can see why it was a best selling book...and why it was made into to a Lifetime movie. If you like them (I do), you will like this one, too. The ending (and Michelle) left me begging for a sequel or maybe a short series.

The director and producer took a good (not great) adult novel with an interesting plot and turned it into a teenybopper soap opera. The cast, without exception, was one-dimensional and juvenile, obviously chosen to appeal to viewers around junior high school age. Don't they think adults watch television? This film was the first movie my husband and I have watched on cable TV since we got our satellite dish over a year ago. Now we see what we have not been missing. I was interested in the previewing comments from several people who deplored the casting of Carrie. It's clear to me that this casting set the tone for the entire production, negatively in my view.

Yet another sad attempt at turning a book into a film. I discovered the book by accident and went about encouraging my friends to read it because the characters, story, and compelling ending needed to be discussed. This film lends itself to no discussion beyond asking for what purpose the things that were changed, especially in character, were changed. By significantly changing the characters, especially Kiroy (the character in the book would NEVER have gone chasing after Carrie), the film lost all of the soul of the book. The greatest moment in the book, when Carrie gets the sewing machine in the mail, wasn't even in the film. Further, the film became less about one woman's journey to discover who she is and more about her dealing with her fiancé's accident. Definitely not recommended. Read the book.