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The Notebook [2004]
from Entertainment in Video
starring Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
directed by Nick Cassavetes

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• absolutely beautiful film
  I bought this dvd about three years ago having never heard of it at all before. It is the most wonderful film i have seen in a long time - deep, moving a stunning love story how and much, much better than most of the "blockbuster" films far more widely available. Buy it NOW!!

• OMG So Emotical
  My friend at work said "Watch this tonight on the TV" and I did, I was captured immedietly, this is an emotional rollercoaster then going into the past and present. At the end you will end up crying even if you are a boy or girl granted.
  This is a DVD to buy and can be watched again and again
  Amazing movie one of the greatest romantic movies of the twenty-first century.

• Not for me.
  I know this is a controversial opinion, but I really didn't like 'The Notebook'. Unfortunately I bought the film based on reviews, having not seen it before. It's proof to me that everyone is different in their tastes.
  I found this film boring and obtuse. The lead characters were unengaging, and I found myself really not caring what happened to them at all.
  All in all, the film just didn't work for me, and I couldn't see what all the fuss was about.

• A tearjerker.....
  I loved this film. I had heard of it before, but never bothered to watch it as didn't think it would be my thing. One day, I was bored and decided to watch it. From start to finish I was captivated by this film. And when it ended, I was sad. Really sad. What I loved most is how realistic it made it, you could almost feel the chemistry between the two and although I always wanted her to end up with Noah, you kind of like understand why it doesn't fit. But then it does. It shows how enduring love can be over... more info

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