The Notebook

Rich girl Allie is swept off her feet by carpenter Noah, but her mum disapproves of the match. While Allie is sent away to college, Noah is drafted for WWI. Years later, he shows up, but Allie is engaged to wealthy Southern gentlemen Lon., A couple proves that True love is strong enough to withstand the brutal tests of memory and time., Directed by Nick Cassavetes, this adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks’s bestselling novel revolves around Noah Calhoun’s (James Garner) regular visits to a female patron (Gena Rowlands) of an area nursing home. Rather than bore her with the inanities of everyday life, Calhoun reads from an old, faded notebook containing the sweeping account of a young couple (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) whose love affair was tragically put to a halt after their separation in the midst of World War II. Seven years later, the couple was reunited, and, despite having taken radically different paths, they found themselves unable to resist the call of a second chance. The Notebook also features Joan Allen, Sam Shepard, and Kevin Connolly., A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences., Rich girl Allie is swept off her feet by carpenter Noah, but her mum disapproves of the match. While Allie is sent away to college, Noah is drafted for WWII. Years later, he shows up, but Allie is engaged to wealthy Southern gentlemen Lon. Romance., Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) meets Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) at a fair, while on vacation with his family in a coastal city. Just one look tells Noah that they are predestined to be together, but they are kept apart by the circumstances, both social (she is rich he is a factory worker) and historical (the Second World War). She returns years later, though now engaged to some one else. At the same time, the turbulent story is revived by a woman in an old people’s home (Gena Rowlands), as a man reads to her from an old notebook…., While visiting a woman with Alzheimer’s, a man recounts the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers in the ’40s. A sentimental drama., Nick Cassavetes’s romantic drama stars his mother Gena Rowlands and James Garner as Allie and Duke Calhoun, living out their twilight years in a retirement home. She is suffering from Alzheimer’s but he reads to her every day from a notebook that records how they met and married. The film tells their story in flashback, with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as the young couple. She comes from a monied North Carolina family, he from an aspirational working-class family. Their love must overcome the obstacles her family put in her way, her engagement to another man, and World War II., Nick Cassavetes’ romantic drama stars his mother Gena Rowlands and James Garner as Duke and Allie Calhoun, living out their twilight years in a retirement home. She is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease but he insists on daily readings to her from a notebook, a record of how they met and married. And in flashback the film tells that story, with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as the young couple. She comes from a monied North Carolina family, he from local working stock but with aspirations. Despite the obstacles her family put in her way, her engagement to another and his WWII service, their love overcomes all., A couple proves that true love is strong enough to withstand the brutal tests of memory and time., While visiting a woman with Alzheimer’s, an elderly man tells her the story of star-crossed young lovers in 1940s North Carolina. Nick Cassavetes directed his mom Gena Rowlands in this moving drama., While visiting a woman with Alzheimer’s, a man recounts the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers in the ’40s.