BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

annevejb First viewing, this was way different and way better than I had expected from the user reviews that I have read, while not being in the top 33% of features ever made, this is middling. The ending. MT, the central actress, is again looking her true age, 18ish, despite all that has gone before. Something to shrug off as other than that it is a neat ending. Except that second viewing the dive at the start was her character at age 23ish and the ending is around a year later. It fits. I had been confused by comments that maybe referred to the novel rather than to this adaptation? Symbolism as a bigger problem. I assume that the dive can be interpreted as symbolic of something fairly commonplace and that symbols such as 23 and 35 and library books and dressmaking are liable to be around. MT Carrie really being 18 fits this aspect really well. Stories often get carried away by symbolism to the detriment of the story and that does not happen in this case, but I would still have preferred this set with Carrie as age 18 to 19. I can like this story, the symbolism does not mess things up. A drawback with the DVD is that it is region 1 and 4x3 and interlaced. Not so unusual with MT stuff. It can still look good even though it should look even better. It looks as if part was filmed on reel and part on videotape? Replaying on a Blu-ray compatible computer system improves the quality, for me. The DVD sleeves for both this and The Circuit suggest that these 2010 releases might have been encouraged by Trachtenberg fans taking an interest and if so I cannot complain. A fan can hope that these lead to more being released. *** The acting quality. Approach this as an MT fan and her opening and end comments can stick out painfully, but the rest is very okay. I do get this tangle with some fan stuff. Other than that, I got this DVD as a fan thing and do not consider my purchase as a waste, I had been hoping to get an affordable copy of this disk for some time. I have qualms but they are not over-riding.Re-watch this in 2015 and I am finding it to be much better than a lot of stuff that I have seen recently. I am glad that I purchased my disk.

sweet_kevin777 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

okpiper 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.

DrStinkfist 'The Dive From Clausen's Pier' is the story of Carrie, a young woman who takes off to New York after her fiancé, Mike Mayor, is paralyzed in a diving accident. Although, the accident isn't the real reason she leaves. Even before the accident, her feelings for Mike were slipping. She does what she feels she has to, to find happiness. – The story itself is less than appealing to me, so this obviously isn't my type of movie. But in spite of that, I still managed to enjoy it.Trachtenberg (Carrie) puts on a surprisingly good performance. Coming into the movie I was honestly expecting her to be the weakest link. On top of her less than stellar performance in EuroTrip, she was also the worst character ever conceived on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But she managed to pull off a wonderful performance, particularly at the beginning of the movie. Will Estes (Mike Mayor) also put on a great performance; they played off of each other really well. In my opinion, Will and Michelle had a lot more chemistry than Michelle and Sean (who plays Killroy). That's where the movie starts slipping a bit, Carrie's relationship with Killroy is a bit unrealistic, not to mention lame. The entire "Killroy hiding something from Carrie" arc was pretty annoying. It's just, after the first 30 minutes, the rest of the movie falls flat for me. I enjoy stories where people are forced to deal with things, not run away from them. Which is why I enjoyed the ending too, but it didn't seem as poignant as it should be. The monologue at the end, which was supposed to be a beautiful sentiment, was actually lame to no end.Even so, the movie wasn't nearly as horrible as I thought it was going to be. It's above average in terms of TV movies, but that really isn't saying much.4.5