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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Nick Cassavetes |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 25 June, 2004 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Line Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 794043749728 |
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The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series) reviews by customers
 This is how love should be
This is how love should be between to people who are really into each other not just a passing frenzy. Nick Cassavetes captured the essence of what we want and how that love should be between two people. He did a wonderful job! Brilliant! And just amazing the detail captured in how couples in love interact together.
About 4 months ago a friend suggested that I see this story only telling me that it is the ultimate love story ever. She lent it to me to take home and view. Four months later I purchased "The Notebook" to add to my collection of DVD's. At sometime in our lives we all have known someone who actually lived like the characters in "The Notebook" it is too bad that is a dying breed. Thank you for the memories of how love should be. This is and always will be a "Marvelous Story" for generations to come. Bravo! I can not say enough good things about how this love story is told.
Wonderful!
This is one of the best love stories. It is completely worth watching. There was great chemistry between the main characters - nice eye contact. I like movies where you can really feel that love, the heat, that special magic. You truly want them to find each other and be together. Sometimes less is more so I'll say this...It's really good.
The Best Love Story...Bring the Tissue!!
How strong is your love - does it truly mean "in sickness and in health"? What would you do to bring your love back? Would you do anything you could...even if you knew it might be for only an hour, a minute, or even a second?
This movie is wonderful! The acting is beautiful and the characters are truly lovable. If you don't cry at this, you don't have a heart!
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