The Last Song

At sixteen, Veronica "Ronnie" Miller (Miley Cyrus) remains as rebellious just like she was the day her parents divorced and when her father evidently moved to Georgia three years ago. 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 ever since he had left. While Juilliard School has been interested in her since she was young, Ronnie had refused to attend.

Now, Steve has the chance to reconnect with his estranged daughter when her mother, Kim Miller (Kelly Preston) sends the rebellious teen and her younger brother, Jonah (Bobby Coleman), to spend the summer with him. Steve, a former Juilliard School professor and concert pianist, now lives a quiet life in Tybee Island, the small beach town in Georgia where he grew up, working on a stained glass window for the local church to replace the one the church lost in a fire. According to the locals, Steve had actually set fire to the church one night.

At his funeral she stands to make a speech but declares that none of the speeches she wrote would ever be able to show how wonderful her father really was. Instead, she plays the piece of music that her father had been writing but had never finished.

At the funeral, while Ronnie is talking to the attendants, she runs into Will. The two begin to reconcile, but are not officially back together again. At the end of the movie Ronnie tells Will that she will be attending Juilliard for the second semester. Will surprises Ronnie by revealing that he will be transferring to Columbia in order to be with her and they share a kiss. The last scene shows her packing up some of her dad's stuff and driving away.