^ 'Complete list of Teen Choice 2013 Awards winners'.'Safe Haven – review', 'The Guardian', 28 February 2013, Retrieved on 29 November 2014. ^ 'Cinemascore :: Movie Title Search'.'Safe Haven: Unable to Ignite', 13 February 2013. 'Her Date Is a Single Dad His, a Possible Killer', 'New York Times', 13 February 2013. 'Review: 'Safe Haven' can't find refuge from a cheesy story', 'LA Times', 13 February 2013. ^ 'Episode #127 – Safe Haven', 'The Flop House', 1 June 2013, Retrieved on 29 November 2014.^ 'Nicholas Sparks movie 'Safe Haven' starts shooting in Wilmington'.Archived from the original on April 3, 2018. ^ 'The roles these actors & actresses *nearly* played'.'Keira Knightley May Take 'Safe Haven' In Nicholas Sparks Adaptation From Lasse Hallstrom'. ^ ' 'Turkeys' Gets Date, 'Safe Haven' Shifts'.^ 'Deborah Lurie to Score Lasse Hallstrom's 'Safe Haven ''.Safe Haven was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 7, 2013. Juan Carlos Piedrahita as Detective Ramirez.This was West's last film role before his death in July 2017 Noah Lomax as Josh Wheatley, Son of Alex who has a rough and strained relationship with his father due to his mother's death.Mimi Kirkland as Lexie Wheatley, Daughter of Alex and who befriended Katie.David Lyons as Detective Kevin Tierney, Katie's abusive husband.
Cobie Smulders as Carly Jo, a local woman who befriends Katie.Julianne Hough as Erin Tierney/Katie Feldman, A young woman who flees her abusive husband and meets Alex.Josh Duhamel as Alex Wheatley, A widower who struggles to raise his two kids until he meets Katie.Katie realizes that her neighbor 'Jo' was the ghost of Carly watching over them. Enclosed with the letter is a photo of Alex's late wife. The letter explains that Alex must be in love to have given her the letter and she hopes that she feels the same way, and wishes that she could be there with them. Alex gives Katie a letter with the words 'To Her' on the envelope. The letters were prepared ahead of time for memorable events such as Josh's eighteenth birthday and Lexie's wedding day. In the aftermath of the fire, Alex recovers several letters which were written by his late wife Carly before she died.