Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during one summer together, but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite 7 years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.
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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
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
One of the best love stories of all time, period.:
I watched this movie again on cable for the umpteenth time recently, and I just have to comment on the one editorial review by Bruce Diones of The New Yorker: He says "the film is as bland and sentimental as a greeting card." Mr. Diones clearly is not in possession of a beating heart in his chest. If he has been so lucky as to have a woman love him, I feel sorry for her. And if that sounds harsh, then so be it. This film delivers on so many levels. It is obviously an incredibly romantic story... more info
The most beautiful love story ever......:
I don't know why I missed it at the theater, but a friend gave it to me to watch one evening. My 14 yr old daughter watched it with me and we both cried all through the movie - not because it was sad, but because it was so beautiful. The kind of love this movie portrayed is the kind of love we are all searching for. This movie is for everyone who believes true love really exists. This is the kind of love worth waiting for!
My Favorite Movie:
I love this movie and have watched it over and over again since receiving it. An excellent buy and I am completely satisfied.
It's all about when, where and with whom:
I realize that there is much that can be ridiculed about The Notebook. The movie practically begs you to find holes. It has the depth of a soap opera. And yet...when I watched it with someone who is so incredibly special to me - the both of us wrapped up in our own personal life miseries, but being great friends and pulling each other through each other's difficulties - and we sat there, quietly sniffing, gently laughing, and shifting in our place next to each other on the couch as the emotional impact of... more info
