movie show times and tickets
Movie Showtimes
The Top Fifteen Trailers
Warner Bros. Pictures
related links
details
Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: Jun 25, 2004
Running Time: 121 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to an older, invalid woman whom he regularly visits. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths. Though her memory has faded, his words give her the chance to relive her turbulent youth and the unforgettable love they shared.
cast + crew
Director
Duke
Allie Calhoun
Allie Hamilton
Noah Calhoun
Anne Hamilton
Sara Tuffington
Maggie Calhoun
Mary Allaen Calhoun
Frank Calhoun
Lon Hammond
Producer
Executive Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
The talented cast certainly elevates The Notebook's romantic drudgery. McAdams takes a departure from all the Mean Girls she's played lately (including The Hot Chick) and easily wins you over as the spirited young Allie, while the usually intense Gosling also tackles something lighter, so to speak, than his previous darker roles, such as his Jewish-turned-American Nazi leader in The Believer. While infusing a certain sense of brooding and melancholy into Noah, especially in the years he spends… 
PETER TRAVERS -
June 16, 2004
I have the same allergic reaction to this open faucet of tear-jerking swill as I do to the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel that inspired it. It's two cringe-worthy love stories for the price of one: Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams star in the 1940s flashbacks, with James Garner and Gena Rowlands -- mom of the film's director, Nick Cassavetes -- doing nursing-home duty in the present day. Their careers will survive, but there's no way to endure the movie without earplugs and a blindfold.
|
||||||||||
