The Notebook

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  • Opened June 25, 2004 
  • 2 hr 4 min
  • PG-13 | Some Sexuality
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 14+. More on child suitability

  • A young woman comes to the coastal town of Seabrook, North Carolina in the 1940's to spend the summer with her family. Still in her teens, Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) meets local boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) at a carnival. On the spot, Noah senses that he and Allie are meant to be together. Though she is a wealthy debutante and he a mill worker, over the course of one passionate and carefree summer in the South, the two fall deeply in love. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden
  • Director: Nick Cassavetes
  • Genres: Drama, Romance

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by Asianfreak

88 out of 100 One of the most tearful, powerful, epic romance since "Titanic" and it will leave you depressed and cry of joy....

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favorite movie!

by pepper942

this movie is soo romantic and cute! if you like romantic movies you will love this movie...

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by Punk_Kanellis

Adorable, sexy and cute. Pure love and heartbreak....

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

A lovely surprise. Ripe with feeling and lush with physical beauty, it's a love story that swings confidently between age and youth, and, like the young Tiger Woods of old, avoids every trap along the way. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

The director is Nick Cassavetes, son of Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes, and perhaps his instinctive feeling for his mother helped him find the way past soap opera in the direction of truth. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Ruthe Stein

An old-fashioned and occasionally schmaltzy movie that delivers an emotional wallop Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

Considering the sunny, relatively pleasurable romantic business that precedes it, the elderly stuff seems dark, morbid, and forced upon us. Read full review

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Rachel McAdams as "Allie"