This movie is about a man named John Tyree and a girl named Savannah Curtis, two different persons.  John is a young soldier and Savannah is a young student.  John is on leave for a couple of weeks, and he lives with his father in a small town, in this town lives Savannah, and they fall in love.  Suddenly John has to go back to the Army for a year, and they try to keep the contact by writing letters to each other. John promise Savannah that he wound´ t extend his contract, and come home to her for a weekend, but he has to go back because the situation had changed. Savannah reacts very violently, but John leaves anyway.

In the airport John says goodbye to Savannah and his father, and flies away. They still write letters, but suddenly Savannah doesn’t answer for a long time, John is worried, but receives a letter, a break up letter, Savannah had found someone else, John is heartbroken and burnsall of her letters. On a mission John gets shot and lies in the hospital for a long time.  He wants to go back, but one of the others tells him that he has to go home, his father is very sick. On the hospital he read a letter for his father, a letter about his thoughts in the moment he got shot. A short time later John’s father dies. John is alone, and he wants to see Savannah again, so he drives to her place and finds her. She had married a guy called Tim, a guy John talked a lot with at one time. He has cancer, and will die, Savannah only married him so his son Allan wasn´t alone. John stays for a while, but when he leaves, he doesn’t say what he used to say, he just says Goodbye Savannah.

Dear John is an American romantic drama film from 2010.