  Beachwear can’t salvage so-so ‘Safe Haven’  "Safe Haven"
belongs to the specialty genre of romantic thriller about an
abused woman often derided as fit for the Lifetime cable
network. Even by that dismal standard, "Safe Haven" is a bit of
a clunker.  It's got all the ingredients of a Lifetime movie.
There's Katie (Julianne Hough), the damsel in distress who has
fled from Boston with the cops on her heels. We're meant to
think that perhaps she killed her abuser and is worried about
the repercussions. Or maybe something darker took place that
wouldn't be as easy to explain. She washes up in the bucolic
beach town of Southport, N.C., just as the busy summer season is
getting under way. Southport, the real star of the movie, is
depicted as a town where attractive women in sleeveless tops and
short shorts manage to peacefully co-exist with tanned, muscular
men in tight fitting T-shirts. Katie fits right in.  She gets a
job in a dockside restaurant, rents a tumbledown cottage in the
woods that looks like it was d