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Dreamgirls

Mandy Moore

THE ROLE Virtuous high school outcast Jamie Sullivan, who forges an unlikely romance with bad boy Landon Carter (Shane West, pictured with Moore) in this film version of Nicholas Sparks' best seller.

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY Medium. While it's not hard to buy perky-sweet Moore as a righteous kinda heroine, she's not the first actress you'd imagine as an awkward teen pariah.

LEVEL OF SUCCESS 4 Hapless guppy expressions notwithstanding, Moore brings a degree of believability to the film's last-act Kleenex extravaganza.

TASTY TIDBIT EW's Lisa Schwarzbaum named A Walk to Remember the fifth worst film of 2002, behind only Snow Dogs, Collateral Damage, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and the litter of the picks, XXX.

EW MOVIE GRADE D (Read the review)