The Notebook [2004] | ![The Notebook [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514G442HZDL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Nick Cassavetes
Actors: Rachel Mcadams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  140 reviews
Sales Rank: 103
Format: Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 123
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239192463
ASIN: B0006GVKGG
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: February 7, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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 Touching! July 12, 2008
Although I don't usally like these sort of films this was brilliant!
Touching & heartwarming! Ryan Gosling was amazing & i don't think they could get anyone else to play the part as well as he did!
 A Romance May 31, 2008
A "then-and-now" romance presented through flashbacks and readings (from the "Notebook") by an aging James Garner to a dementia patient. The love-story starts in a WW2 southern US summer and unfolds through the reading. The star-crossed young lovers are entirely convincing and very-well portrayed. With a bitter-sweet, predictable storyline, this is a curl-up-on-the-sofa, wet Sunday afternoon film with some lovely photography. Keep a tissue to hand!
Amazing May 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I didn't expect to like this film and the first 10 - 15 minutes I was a little bored, but as the story progressed I fell right into it and was totally engrossed. It was a beautiful film, an amazing story. I cried my eyes out and kept thinking about it for several days after I saw it. I highly recommend it.
Watch it !!! May 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Notebook is probably the most romantic, sad, happy & wonderful film I have ever seen. It makes me sob out loud everytime I see it but it is also a reminder that true love really exists.
After watching the film I read the book by Nicholas Sparks and found it to be one of the very rare occasions when the film is far better than the book (although the book is very good too!)
I urge everyone to see this film at least once in their lives. My manly boyfriend even had a tear in his eye at the end!
Fantastic March 29, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Absolutley loved this movie, every time I watch it I cry, it makes you think there is true love in the world, everybody I have recommended the movie to also love it, def a good buy
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