The Longest Ride is a film based upon the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name.
 Based on Nicholas Sparks' 2013 novel of the same name, the film stars Britt Robertson, Scott Eastwood, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin, and Alan Alda
 He was the middle of three children, with an older brother, Michael Earl "Micah" Sparks (born 1964), and a younger sister, Danielle "Dana" Sparks Lewis (19662000), who died at the age of 33 from a brain tumor, an event that inspired his novel A Walk to Remember

