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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 96030
Released: September 16, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/16/2008 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg13
Description of The Notebook:
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 Reviews:
One of the best romance movies 
2009-12-27 - I loved this movie. I watched it so much that I had to buy a new copy of it on DVD. I love how it sets place during World War 2 and I believe everyone would love to experience a love like the one they have.
Good old fashioned tear jerker romance. 
2009-12-25 - Nice old fashioned sappy love story. None of the characters are truly unlikable except for one, but even she has a redemption of sorts. This is a good movie to watch around the holidays because it's really not based in reality, but who the hell cares? Definitely worth watching.
This film is a Perfect Example of "The Movies They Don't Make Anymore..."
2009-12-18 - With over 250 reviews, most of which lovingly describing the plot and shouting praises for the Actors, screenplay, sets and everything else worth mentioning (of which there are many); I am straying a bit from the regular outline for reviews. I hope the folks who review the reviews (before publishing them here) have a little patience with me.
I am an over 60 male who absolutely loved this film. It's been a while since I have had the enjoyment from a newly made film of this category of entertainment. I refer to that category as: "loving human reality." I imagine that younger audiences would think of it as silly, old fashioned and dull. No thrills, no chills. No frontal nudity. No gore or blood dripping from the scenery. Could love be love without all the confrontations, horrible language, backstabbing and general, all around hostility and negativity?
I think love can simply be love. That's the reason I loved this film. Am I dating myself? Yes, but I don't care.
"Why ask for the moon when we have the stars?" (thanks BD)
best movie ever.
2009-12-10 - this movie stayed in my mind longer than any scary movie can or ever will. beautifully filmed, amazing actors, there's seriously no flaws in this movie. but if you watch the deleted scenes, i really wish they would've kept the scene where ally tells noah to read her the notebook everyday so she can come back to him. makes my heart cringe.
The Notebook
2009-12-08 - One of the best movies I've ever seen. I just bought my third copy as a gift for friends.
