Tim Allen Movie:

		List Price: $39.99		Label: New Line Home Video Salesrank: 3260 Released: January 20, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

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:
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.

Favorite!
2009-12-03 - This is one of my favorite movies. I've seen it soooo many times and it still makes me cry :-)

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!!