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Mood:
- EmotionalSentimentalTouchingBittersweet
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Plot:
- Young LoversFall in LoveLove AffairLove TriangleSocial DifferencesLovers ReunitedLove and RomanceSociety more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceMelodramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century40s90sWorld War 2
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Place:
- South CarolinaUSA
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Audience:
- Date NightGirls' Night
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbuster
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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- Sexual Content
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The Notebook, 2004
English
USA, Portugal
Profile of The Notebook
The Notebook can be described as bittersweet, emotional, and sentimental. The plot revolves around lovers reunited, young lovers, and social differences. The main genres are drama, romance, and period. In terms of style, The Notebook is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in South Carolina. The Notebook takes place during World War 2 and in the 1990s. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster and an award winner. The Notebook is well suited for a girls' night and a date night. Note that it involves sexual content.
Summary of The Notebook
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 costar Gena Rowlands), The Notebook is aided immensely by the naturalistic performances of Gosling and McAdams, whose chemistry is palpable.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Portugal |
| Release date: | 25 June 2004 |
| Runtime: | 123 min |
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as Noah Calhoun
as Allie Hamilton
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Critics Reviews
Chicago Tribune
May be corny, but it's also absorbing, sweet and powerfully acted. It's a film about falling in love and looking back on it, and it avoids many of the genre's syrupy dangers.
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- by: Michael Wilmington
San Francisco Chronicle
An old-fashioned and occasionally schmaltzy movie that delivers an emotional wallop
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- by: Ruthe Stein
Users Reviews
I watched this movie because every one of my friends and coworkers recommended it to be the BEST! However, I was truly disappointed! It was very predictable, and there were so many goofs that I was able to point out. This story has been done so many...
- 29.May.2010
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- by: Sheila Lovin
- Sheila Lovin rated this movie
0/10
I rated this film as disappointing although I want to stress it did have its good parts. The beginning was so beautiful and poetical. As was the ending when the intention of the story was revealed. But the part in between those moments was a waste...
- 15.March.2010
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- by: Streetlight of Amber
- Streetlight of Amber rated this movie4/10Disappointing
