The Lucky One came out April 20, 2012. It features Taylor Schilling and Zac Efron as a marine sergeant who finds a photograph of a woman after a firefight in Iraq. He believes finding the photograph saved his life. He goes to a small Louisiana town to find this woman he believes saved his life. The Lucky One is romantic and moving. It is the latest film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. The Lucky One does not compare to Nicholas Sparks’s The Notebook, but it was one of his best.