Movie review score
5

Genere : romance
Directed by : Nick Cassavetes
Produced by: Toby Emmerich
Mark Johnson
Written by: Jeremy Leven
Jan Sardi
Based on: The Notebook by
Nicholas Sparks
Narrated by: James Garner
Starring: Ryan Gosling , Rachel McAdams ,James Garner
Gena Rowlands ,Sam Shepard ,James Marsden ,Joan Allen
Music by: Aaron Zigman
Cinematography: Robert Fraisse
Editing by : Alan Heim
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release date(s): May 20, 2004 (Seattle International Film Festival)
June 25, 2004 (Worldwide)
Running time: 123 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

                                                                               DOWNOAD MOVIE !
Plot : The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love .

REVIEW Take a young actor whose only notoriety is from playing modern day guys with massively demented anger management issues, add a young actress who has really only shown her chops as a Mean Girl and a Hot Chick, bring them together in 1940's South Carolina, and don’t forget to throw in two old fogies reflecting back at their youth. That, basically, is what The Notebook looks like on paper. Though a cookie cutter “love story” this may be, it still leaves some room for a few surprises to keep the super familiar subject matter just the slightest bit fresh. 

Allie (Rachel McAdams) is the rich girl on vacation. Noah (Ryan Gosling) is the hard working, dirt-poor local boy. All it takes is a meeting between the two to blossom some summer lovin’. Shockingly, Allie’s parents do not approve and try to split the two up, seemingly forever. Obviously, we’ve seen this thousands of times before. What makes it work this time are good performances from the leads, and the fact that Notebook’s premise doesn’t take up the entire two hours. In fact, it takes up only the first half hour to forty-five minutes. After Allie’s parents split them up the relationship is over. For seven years the two never cross paths until Noah coincidentally sees her in the street. But before he can open his mouth, he sees she’s living a fine life without him, complete with a smarmy businessman fiancĂ© (James Marsden).

In between the scenes of Noah and Allie are scenes of James Garner reading their story in a nursing home to an elderly woman (Gena Rowlands) slowly losing her memory. Guess what he’s reading the story from...you guessed it, a notebook. These snippets of scenes between Garner and Rowlands are nice and sweet, but the investment in Gosling and McAdams is what makes them pay off in the end. That’s all I’ll say. Marsden does the same thing he’s done in the past two X-Men movies, he’s thrown to the side but does great in the scenes he has. Joan Allen plays Allie’s rich bitchy mother a thorn in the relationship between the two. Played to perfection. Sam Shepard also phones in a charming little performance as Noah’s father. It really seems like he’s just making up everything he’s doing...though it kind of works

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