Nicholas Sparks fans can breathe easy: Director Nick Cassavetes is in touch with his inner romantic and his adaptation of Sparks' best-selling tearjerker retains the mushy sentimentality that readers loved. Present day: An older gentleman named Duke (James Garner) regularly visits senile Allie (Gena Rowlands) in her hospital room and regales her with a romantic tale of young love that he reads from a well-worn notebook. In the 1940s, spirited, college-bound Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and her wealthy, class-conscious family are summering in small-town Seabrook, N.C. Handsome Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), who works at the local lumberyard, is smitten when Allie cat...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
121 mins