
Behind every great love is a great story.
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
- 7.9
- 2004
- Released
- 2h 3m

Ryan Gosling
Noah Calhoun
Rachel McAdams
Allie Hamilton
Gena Rowlands
Older Allie
James Garner
Duke
Joan Allen
Anne Hamilton
David Thornton
John Hamilton
James Marsden
Lon Hammond
Kevin Connolly
Fin
Sam Shepard
Frank Calhoun
Starletta DuPois
Nurse Esther
Ed Grady
Harry
Jennifer Echols
Nurse Selma
Heather Wahlquist
Sara Tuffington
Cullen Moss
Bodee
Thunderbird Dinwiddie
Veronica
James Middleton
Aaron
Obba Babatundé
Band Leader
Barbara Weetman
Buyer #2
Daniel Chamblin
Buyer #3
Sasha Azevedo
Wife of Buyer #3
Jamie Anne Allman
Martha Shaw
Rebecca Koon
Aunt Georgia
Sandra Elise Williams
Aunt Jeanette
Deborah Hobart
Aunt Kitty
Sylvia Jefferies
Rosemary
Elizabeth Bond
Lon's Secretary
Nancy De Mayo
Mary Allen
Renée Amber
Nurse at Counter
Tim O'Brien
Mr. Tuffington
Geoffrey Knight
Barker
Tim Ivey
Rower
Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas
Nurse Keith
Jonathan Parks Jordan
Seabrook Boy
Leslea Fisher
Seabrook Girl
Jude Kitchens
Tommy the Ferris Wheel Operator
Pat Leonard
Lieutenant Davis
Kweli Leapart
Willa
Frederick Bingham
Postman
Daniel Czekalski
Recruitment Officer
Bradley D. Capshaw
Injured Soldier
James Scott Deaton
Injured Soldier
Eve Kagan
Sarah Lawrence Girl
Stephanie Wheeler
Sarah Lawrence Girl
Erin Guzowski
Sarah Lawrence Girl
John Cundari
Maitre D'
Hugh Robertson
Pastor
Robert Washington
Elgin
Robert Ivey
Dressmaker
Sherril M. Turner
Linda Jean
Meredith Zealy
Maggie
Julianne Keller Lewis
Davanee
Madison Wayne Ellis
Noah, Jr.
Riley Novak
Edmond
Ronald Betts
Male Nurse
Paul Johansson
Allie's Mom's Ex Boyfriend (uncredited)
David Abrams
Recruit (uncredited)
Bruce Williamson
Carnival Patron (uncredited)














Released
en
$29,000,000.00
$115,600,000.00
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- #mailbox
- #valentine's day
Reviews

**_Love story in the 1940s near the coast of South Carolina_** An aged man at a nursing home (James Garner) reads a romantic tale of two young lovers around the WW2 years (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) to a woman with dementia (Gena Rowlands). Sam Shepard plays the young man’s father while James Marsden is on hand as his competitor. "The Notebook” (2004) comes in the tradition of romantic

Touching! Despite evidently not watching this until today, I've always heard about the sad tag that many associate with <em>'The Notebook'</em> - and I can see why. Given I didn't know anything other than that, I was not anticipating how the film portrays its story - which is effective and rather heartbreaking. I'm not one to get properly emotional to movies, though hit the feels this one does

A gently touching look at an elderly couple who must deal with present day mental illness told through a retrospective of their not uneventful lives. Rachel McAdams is "Allie", a young girl from a wealthy family who falls for "Noah" (Ryan Gosling) but her mother wants much better for her, so takes her away to their city home and keeps all of his (365) letters. He joins the Army and fights in WWII











