The Notebook
by Nick Cassavetes
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Joan Allen, Rachel McAdams, Ryan GoslingDirector: Nick Cassavetes
Producer: Avram 'Butch' Kaplan
Producer: Lynn Harris
Producer: Mark Johnson
Producer: Toby Emmerich
Writer: Jan Sardi
Writer: Jeremy Leven
Writer: Nicholas Sparks
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 123 minutes
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: ALL
Movie Reviews of The Notebook
Movie Review: A True Love That Stands the Test of Time...
Summary: 5 Stars
A tale of love at first sight, "The Notebook" is a story about finding a love that endures the test of time. Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) is no one special. He leads his life as best as he can, until one summer evening, Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) steps into his life. A simple courtship soon turns into a true summer love. Allie and Noah fight for their relationship as Allie's upper-class parents insist that Noah is not good enough for a girl of her status. Separated by meddling parents, the two live out their separate lives. Several years later, they meet again. Their passion is rekindled and soon, Allie is forced to choose between Noah and her new, upper-class fiancé (played by James Marsden).Many years later, an older Noah (James Garner) shares this special and intimate story with his wife (Gena Rowland). Each day, he reads a portion of the notebook, where the stories of a younger Allie and Noah are captured on rippling pages.
Based on the bestselling novel by Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook" moves back and forth from past to present, as an aged couple revisits history and relives a romance that began during a summer so long ago.
A must-see for all the romantics of the world, the movie is a bittersweet mix of joy and heartbreak. A definite tear-jerker, this movie is for those who believe that true love CAN last despite years of separation.
The actors do an amazing job. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are realistic and believable as they deliver a powerful performance that moves with such great emotional force. The DVD also includes many deleted scenes; a definite essential for any romantic movie fan. There are many other enjoyable features such as screen tests, movie-documentaries, and commentaries (just to name a few).
A must-have for every romantic's movie-library, "The Notebook" is a movie that will never leave your heart and will leave you believing that true love CAN last a lifetime.
Summary of The Notebook
When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much to recommend, including appealing young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's mother) playing the same loving couple in (respectively) early 1940s and present-day North Carolina. He was poor, she was rich, and you can guess the rest; decades later, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's drifting into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. The movie's open to ridicule, but as a delicate tearjerker it works just fine. Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember were also based on Sparks novels, suggesting a triple-feature that hopeless romantics will cherish. --Jeff Shannon
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