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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 25805
Released: January 20, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Behind every great love is a great story. As teenagers, Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) begin a whirlwind courtship that soon blossoms into tender intimacy. The young couple is quickly separated by Allies upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn't right for her. Several years pass, and when they meet again, their passion is rekindled, forcing Allie to choose between her soulmate and class order. This beautiful tale has a particularly special meaning to an older gentleman (James Garner) who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging companion (Gena Rowlands). Based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook is at once heartwarming and heartbreaking and will capture you in its sweeping and emotional force. Special Collectibles Included in this Giftset: Exquisite 46-Page Photo and Scrapbook Album That Highlights the Movies' Storyline and Provides Bonus Pages for Creating Your Own Personalized Memories Decorative Stickers and Photo Corners to Add Your Own Photos 2 Themed Bookmarks Set of 16 Notecards and Envelopes
Description of The Notebook (Limited Edition Gift Set):
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
The Notebook (Limited Edition Gift Set) Reviews:
An Incredible movie stunted by the score ... 
2009-11-09 -
Films that succeed beyond understanding in their brilliance are few and far between and there are many films that come pretty close. The Notebook is such a movie.
Ryan Gosling's acting in this movie is outstanding and is convincing as a period actor and someone who can hold your attention and emote real feelings. I was expecting most of the actors to have looks on their faces as if they just stepped out of the mall like in so many other modern films, whether they be period costume drama, or no.
The downfall of The Notebook was the abysmal score that not only seemed absent but improperly planted `hit' music along the way. I was blown away by how bad the music was in this film that I quickly realized that it was harming the viewing experience. The music in films like this is absolutely important and keeps the brain fully engaged at all the right moments so that those profound moments don't get lost in a `let down'. Ryan Gosling's speech to Rachel McAdams at the car towards the end about `Do me a favour, just picture your life forty years from now ...' is magnificent but is chopped at the knees by any real emotional pull that the music is supposed to deliver.
This is a minor point to some, but if you're a person, like me, who pays a great deal of attention to music in all films, it's not such a small thing by any means. Casablanca is burned into the minds of most of us because of `As Time Goes By', and it's just a fact. Nico Muhly's scoring on the more modern `The Reader', tells us that these ideas about music and film being deeply connected still hold true and should be respected.
Whoever was responsible for the score here, and according to IMDb it's someone named Aaron Zigman, I don't think I'd ever hire this person to work on any film, nor would I look forward to anything he's involved in either. You can also add Paul Broucek's name to that list as he was the Producer that gave the go ahead for these decisions. Just absolutely depressing without doubt. How sad.
Minus two for the lack of musical direction. Brilliant writing and fine acting.
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Product review for 'The Notebook' Block 3 
2009-10-21 - Cassandra Aminto
Block 3
"If your a bird, then I'm a bird"-Noah, The Notebook. The Notebook is a story of how true love has it's up's and down's but if it's real then it can overcome anything. Our story begins with Noah, a boy whose family isn't the wealthiest, and Allie, a girl who comes from money, sharing a beautiful summer romance. Unfortunately, good things don't always last, and it all works out UNTIL the end of the summer. Allie is going away too New York to college and Noah says he will wait for her. But in that time span, Noah was recruited for the Military and sent off too war. Allie volunteered to be an assistant for wounded soldiers, and she meets another man. They fall in love and plan to get married, but Allie finally see's Noah has kept a long promise. What is the promise? And what will Allie do, be with her true love Noah or go a separate way? This is defiantly focused towards females, but it keeps your attention with the love and passion. If a couple watched this together you could pull males towards this too. That is why The Notebook is a fantastic movie.
An amazing, tender love story.
2009-10-21 - This is the way love should be....real, honest, tender, lifelong no matter what life brings our way. It was heart warming to the end.
IN LOVE
2009-10-18 - I LOVE LOVE STORY'S AND THIS MOVIE IS THE BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN...NO LIE!!! I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH YOU CAN WATCH IT WITH YOUR HUSBAND AND I BET HE WILL LOVE IT 2!!!! THIS IS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE...IT'S SO CLASSIC THIS IS THE TYPE OF MOVIE WHERE YOU IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE THE GIRL LOL! IT'S SO AWESOME! I CANT STOP TALKING ABOUT IT! READER GET THIS MOVIE YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.
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2009-10-16 - My 90 yr old friend loves this movie..He requested that I get this for him.
