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The Notebook

The Notebook

The Notebook

PG-13
2h 4m
2004

Rotten

54%

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In Seabrook, North Carolina in the 1940s, teenaged debutante Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and local boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) spend one passionate, carefree summer together and deeply in love. But when the summer ends, war and duty separate the young couple. Today, an elderly man (James Garner) visits a nursing home to read from his notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose memory is fading. As he spins a tale of two young lovers with their whole lives before them, his beloved Allie relives a long-ago passion that has never died, an unbreakable bond between two ordinary people rendered extraordinary by the strength, power and beauty of true love.

Director:

Nick Cassavetes

Producer:

Mark Johnson, Lynn Harris, Toby Emmerich, Avram Butch Kaplan

Cast:

Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Kevin Connolly, David Thornton, Jamie Anne Brown, Heather Wahlquist, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen

© 2004 New Line Productions, Inc.

Sneak Peek: The Longest Road

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Special Features

All in the Family: Nick Cassavetes

11 MIN

Nicholas Sparks: A Simple Story, Well Told

6 MIN

Southern Exposure: Locating The Notebook

11 MIN

Casting Rachel and Ryan

4 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Rotten

54%

Critics Consensus: It's hard not to admire its unabashed sentimentality, but The Notebook is too clumsily manipulative to rise above its melodramatic clichés.

Reviews

Patricia Karounos

Fresh

The Notebook is one of those movies that is so sad, you could break out into tears just thinking about it.

October 23, 2023

Fresh

A tearjerker? It'll make you cry but it's not manipulative. A chick flick? It's just an inspiring love story that will touch your heart and make you believe true love can last a lifetime and conquer all. Isn't that what we all want?

HollywoodChicago.com

Patrick McDonald

Fresh

There is always cinema room for the unabashed tearjerker, & THE N delivers on that "note." Any film that has Gena Rowlands in it will at least shine when she is on the screen & this was no exception. David Thornton with a handlebar mustache ... exquisite!

February 25, 2023

Gone With The Twins

Fresh

Though torn between two storylines, one of which vastly outshines the other, "The Notebook" is still an impressive production.

November 7, 2020

Behind The Lens

Debbie Lynn Elias

Fresh

Intelligently adapted and written by Jan Sardi, this is the tear-jerker of the summer. A chick flick? Yes. Classic Hollywood romance? Yes. Will it touch your heart? Without a doubt...

November 13, 2019

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Additional Info

Genre:Drama
Release Date:June 25, 2004
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
5.1

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