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List Price: $39.99 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 4060
Released: January 20, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray |
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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 isnt 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.
Description of The Notebook (Limited Edition Gift Set) [Blu-ray]:
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) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
THE NOTEBOOK 
2009-12-02 - THIS IS AN AWESOME MOVIE....ONE OF MY FAVORITES THAT I COULD NOT BE WITHOUT IN MY COLLECTION! A FAVORITE!!
the notebook 
2009-11-30 - my movie arrived in just a few days and its a wonderful movie...i am glad to add it to my library..thank you
Amazing! 
2009-11-24 - You won't regret the money you spend on this. I thought menopause had dried me up inside, but after I watched this, I feel the seeds of life inside me again. It was amazing.
The Notebook 
2009-11-24 - I really loved this movie and since I loved the other movie that he made I had to get this I really wanted to watch this from start to finish it took me two days to finish but it was a very good movie he did a great job on it and it came in quick too thanks
Tear jerker 
2009-11-23 - Have plenty of kleenex ready before watching this movie. You will need it at the end. The build up is a study in bad chemistry. The two seem not made for each other, but they go against all to prove everyone wrong. A normal person would just walk away so many different times. I wonder if one of the characters were abusive whether this would be the same movie? See it for yourself - it is worth watching at least once. Then decide for yourself.