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Description
Based on the celebrated novel by Nicholas Sparks, THE NOTEBOOK tells the story of a young couple who overcome insurmountable odds to experience the true power of love. In a modern-day nursing home, a kindhearted man (James Garner) reads a tender story to another patient (Gena Rowlands). The story begins during one glorious summer in small-town South Carolina in the early 1940s. Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) is a blue-collar log mill worker who courts the wealthy and sheltered Allie Nelson (Rachel McAdams). Before long, sparks are flying and the pair is in love. But eventually Allie's snobby parents force their separation, and when World War II arrives, Noah heads overseas to serve his country. In the meantime, Allie becomes a nurse and falls for another man (James Marsden), to Noah's dismay. Nonetheless, he buys and fixes up the mansion he promised Allie he would one day restore, and when he and Allie reunite just before her wedding, their love blossoms once again. Decades later, in the nursing home, the story reaches its heartfelt conclusion. Directed with extreme sensitivity by Nick Cassavetes (son of co-star Gena Rowlands), THE NOTEBOOK is aided immensely by the naturalistic performances of Gosling and McAdams, whose chemistry is palpable.
The Notebook Review
Far, far gooier than a whole year's worth of Valentine's Days, "The Notebook" is only for the serious romantics amongst you. Adapted from Nicholas Spark's equally gooey novel, it finds an aging James Garner reading a story from his faded notebook to a confused old woman (Gena Rowlands) in a nursing home. His tale is the story of wealthy debutante Allie and poor mill worker Noah who fall in love during a sun-kissed summer in 1940s North Carolina. But when her parents - and World War II - decide to put an end to the affair, neither lustful teenager quite forgets each other and when Allie returns after the war engaged to another man, the scene is set for one of those dramatic, tear-stained showdowns only weepies do so well.
Right from the film's glossy credit sequence of sun-set tinged rivers flown over by slow-mo flocks of birds, you know what you're going to get: a handsome but plodding two hours of manipulative mush. It doesn't help either that the chemistry between Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling as the two young lovers is utterly non-existent or that their rain-soaked declarations of love and oh-so-tasteful sex scenes never rise above the level of embarrassing cliché. Only old-timers Garner and Rowlands as the older couple manage to emerge with some dignity from a love story that's so hackneyed that it might well have you reaching for the sick bags rather than the hankies.
Special Features
Optional Filmmakers Feature Length Commentaries, 3 Featurettes, Casting, Theatrical Trailer
Technical Details
Region 2
Production Year: 2004
Main Language: English
Genre: Drama
Certificate: 12 Suitable for Persons Aged 12 or Over
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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