<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $26 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $35,926,213 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Best of Me is a 2014 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Hoffman and written by Will Fetters and J. Mills Goodloe, based on Nicholas Sparks' 2011 novel of the same name . The film stars James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan with Luke Bracey and Liana Liberato . </P> <P> Dawson Cole works on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana . One day, an explosion on the job nearly kills him, throwing him into the water, but miraculously, he survives . Months later after recovering, Dawson learns that his close friend and surrogate father, Tuck Hostetler, has died and returns home for the first time in almost twenty years to carry out Tuck's final wishes . When he arrives at his house, Dawson is surprised to find that Tuck also arranged for Dawson's high school girlfriend, Amanda Collier, to join him . It seems that Tuck's intention was that Dawson and Amanda would perhaps rekindle their former romance . However, Amanda is now married to Frank Reynolds . </P>

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