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The Notebook (2004)

4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 36,962 ratings
IMDb7.8/10.0

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Brand Warner Home Video
Theme Book
Sheet Size 5-x-8-inch inches
Special Feature Soft cover
Number of Items 1
Binding DVD

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Behind Every Great Love is a Great Story

The Notebook tells the tale of local mill worker, Noah Calhoun, and vacationing rich girl, Allie Hamilton. The pair meet one summer in South Carolina and fall desperately in love. Allie’s parents don’t approve of the relationship because of the couple’s social differences, and they work to separate the two. When Noah leaves to serve in World War II it seems to mark the end of the love affair, and eventually Allie becomes involved with another man. But when Noah returns to the small town of Seabrook years later, on the eve of Allie's marriage, it soon becomes clear that their romance is anything but over.

Trivia

Gena Rowlands, who plays the elderly Allie Hamilton, is director Nick Cassavetes’ mother.

Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams were both born in the same hospital in London, Ontario, Canada.

For two months before filming began, Ryan Gosling lived in Charleston, South Carolina, rowed the Ashley River every morning and built furniture in the afternoons.

Entertainment Weekly has credited Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams for the Best Movie Kiss of All Time.

A Memorable Romance

  • Based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks
  • Directed by Nick Cassavetes
  • More than two hours of heartfelt, romantic drama
  • Bonus material includes deleted scenes, commentaries and more
  • Available on DVD and Blu-ray

Meet the Cast

Young Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams)

From a wealthy, privileged background, Allie is spending the summer in Seabrook, South Carolina. There, she meets and falls in love with local boy Noah Calhoun.

Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling)

A young and carefree local, Noah has a low-paying job at the town’s lumberyard. When he meets Allie one evening at a carnival, he’s immediately smitten.

Allie Hamilton (Gena Rowlands)

Now living in a senior care facility, the elderly Allie is suffering from senile dementia and memory loss. She is visited every day by a co-resident, who reads to her.

Duke (James Garner)

A resident at the same facility where Ms. Hamilton resides, Duke gets permission to read to the elderly woman. The story he shares is always the same.

Product Description

Product Description

Notebook, The (DVD) (WS)

In Seabrook, North Carolina in the 1940s, teenaged debutante Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and local boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) spend one passionate, carefree summer together and deeply in love. But when the summer ends, war and duty separate the young couple. Today, an elderly man (James Garner) visits a nursing home to read from his notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose memory is fading. As he spins a tale of two young lovers with their whole lives before them, his beloved Allie relives a long-ago passion that has never died, an unbreakable bond between two ordinary people rendered extraordinary by the strength, power and beauty of true love.

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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

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.8 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 7497
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Nick Cassavetes
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Subtitled, AC-3, Dolby, Multiple Formats, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 4 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 8, 2008
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ WarnerBrothers
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000683VI4
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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