<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $89 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Last Song is a 2010 American coming of age teen romantic drama film developed alongside Nicholas Sparks' 2009 novel of the same name . The film was directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van Wie . The Last Song stars Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, and Greg Kinnear and follows a troubled teenager as she reconnects with her estranged father and falls in love during a summer in a quiet Southern United States beach town . </P> <P> Sparks was approached to write both the film's screenplay and the novel . Sparks completed the screenplay in January 2009, prior to the completion of the novel, making The Last Song his first script to be optioned for film . The setting, originally in North Carolina like the novel, relocated to Georgia after the states had campaigned for months to host production . Upon beginning production in Tybee Island, Georgia and nearby Savannah, The Last Song became the first movie to be both filmed and set in Tybee Island . Filming lasted from June 15 to August 18, 2009 with much of it occurring on the island's beach and pier . The Last Song was released by Touchstone Pictures on March 31, 2010 . Upon release, the film received a negative response from critics, particularly towards its screenplay and casting . </P> <P> At seventeen, Veronica "Ronnie" Miller (Miley Cyrus) remains as rebellious as she was the day her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina three years prior . Once a classical piano child prodigy under the tutelage of her father, Steve Miller (Greg Kinnear), Ronnie now ignores the instrument and has not spoken with her father since he left . While Juilliard School has been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie refuses to attend . </P>

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