Another year, another Nicholas Sparks movie. On April 10, Sparks’s latest book to film, The Longest Ride, hit the big screen, making teenage girls all over the world swoon.

The film is about Luke Collins (Scott Eastwood), a young professional bull rider, who has returned to the world of PBR after a serious year long injury and, by chance, meets Sophia Danko (Britt Robertson), a local college senior and art enthusiast. The two quickly develop a romance and save the life of an older man (Alan Alda), Ira Levinson, who crashed his car during their first date. Sophia befriends Ira, who tells her the love story of how he met his late wife, Ruth (Oona Chaplin); the old and new love stories intertwine together.

Nicholas Sparks novels generally follow the same plot; two young people fall in love, come across an obstacle (usually involving the military), experience a heartbreaking and unnecessary death, resolve the conflict and live happily ever after. Of course, The Longest Ride is no different, but varies from all of the other romance movies. Here are five reasons why The Longest Ride is a must see.

1. Normal humans

One quality in movies that can be so unrealistic is the fact that the romantic couple can be put in the most awkward situations and can act perfectly fine, which is really annoying because, let’s be honest, budding romances are built on those awkward moments. In The Longest Ride, Nicholas Sparks understood this and threw in some of those moments. When Sophia goes up to Luke trying to be cute with his hat, she hits it with her hand making it nearly fall and when Sophia enters Luke’s apartment and he offers her soup of all things, which he doesn’t  even have. In Ira’s (young Ira Jack Huston) story, when he conjures up the courage to ask out Ruth, the story feels more real than other movies. It’s those cute, yet painful moments that make the viewers realize that maybe relationships like Luke and Sophia or Ira and Ruth’s are more real than the ones in every other romantic movie.

2. Two different worlds

In order to thicken the plot, it only made sense that Sophia and Luke come from two completely different worlds. Luke is a reckless, country gentleman and Sophia is an artsy, city girl. Their worlds aren’t compatible, but they try to make the relationship work.

3. Luke and Sophia’s Relationship 

Gentlemen, look out: if your significant other sees this film, you will probably soon have to start wearing a cowboy hat, boots, drive a jacked up pickup truck, and maybe learn the art of bull riding. This is tall order to fulfill, but after The Longest Ride it seems like a reasonable request. Luke is the definition of a perfect gentlemen. He lets Sophia keep his riding hat, brings flowers on their first date, creates a magical first date (a late night picnic next to a breathtaking lake), saves Ira from a burning car, and competes in the hardest sport on dirt. Sophia and Luke, although just fictional characters, set the bar high when it comes to relationship goals.

4. Two story lines 

Throughout the film, viewers are exposed to the two relationships of Sophia and Luke and Ira and Ruth. Sometimes with movies like this, one relationship is usually favored over another, but with the existing love Ira still carries for his late wife, it made you want to see the magic behind their beginning as well as the magic happening in the modern day.

5. Scott Eastwood   

I don’t think I am the only one upset that Scott Eastwood has only just been ‘discovered’ in 2015. The son of Clint Eastwood followed in his father’s footsteps in playing the best cowboy our generation has seen. Also, Scott Eastwood is just enjoyable to look at for two hours, so there’s another bonus for seeing the film.

The Longest Ride is maybe just another romantic drama written by Nicholas Sparks, but you’ll lose yourself in the North Carolina adventures that the two couples embark on. See the film. It’s worth it.