The Notebook
Film poster(David Lambo at ellis Piano)
Directed by	Nick Cassavetes
Produced by	Lynn Harris Mark Johnson
Written by	Nicholas Sparks (novel) Jan Sardi Jeremy Leven
Starring	Ryan Gosling Rachel McAdams James Garner Gena Rowlands James Marsden Joan Allen Sam Shepard David Thornton
Music by	Aaron Zigman
Cinematography	Robert Fraisse
Editing by	Alan Heim
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	June 25, 2004
Running time	123 min.
Budget	$30,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$115,603,229
IMDb profile

The Notebook is a 1996 American romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks that was later adapted into a popular romantic film by the same name in 2004. Image File history File links Posternotebook. ... Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes (born May 21, 1959) is an American actor, writer and director. ... E. Lynn Harris (born June 20, 1955 in Flint, Michigan) is an American author. ... Mark Johnson (born December 27, 1945 in Washington, D. C.) is a film producer who lives and works in the United States. ... Nicholas Charles Sparks (b. ... Jan Sardi is one of Australias most distinguished screenwriters. ... Jeremy Leven is an American screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. ... Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor. ... Rachel McAdams (born October 7, 1978) is a Canadian actress. ... For other uses, see James Garner (disambiguation). ... Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress. ... James Paul Marsden (born September 18, 1973) is an American actor and former Versace model, perhaps best known for playing Cyclops in the X-Men films. ... Joan Allen in a scene from The Contender Joan Allen (b. ... Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is a unique American artist whose talents have been expressed in many different areas. ... David Thornton is an actor. ... Aaron Zigman is a composer, producer, arranger, songwriter, and musician for several recent films. ... Robert Fraisse is a French cinematographer born in Paris in 1940. ... New Line redirects here. ... is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... This article refers to the wide variety of writing called romantic. For literature from the European Romantic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, see Romanticism: Art and Literature. ... Nicholas Charles Sparks (b. ... While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the storys protagonists. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ...

The novel was Sparks' first published novel, and the third written after The Passing and The Royal Murders, which were never published. It was written over a period of six months in 1994. Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks after picking the book out of her agency's slush pile, liked it, and offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for it from Time Warner Book Group, and the novel was published in October 1996. It was on the New York Times best seller list in its first week of release. Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Just a comment, not intended for publication unless my question is found true. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... TWBG, with offices in New York, Boston, Indiana, Nashville and Los Angeles, includes the imprints Warner Books, Little, Brown & Co. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Plot

The movie/book starts off with an old man in a nursing home reading a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads is about two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Although Allie refuses Noah's request to go on a date at first, she changes her mind after a double date with her friend. After that, they spent the whole summer together. Allie's parents disapproved of this and separate Noah and Allie because of Noah's lack of wealth. After waiting for Noah to write to her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon.

Allie did not know that Noah had written 365 letters, one letter a day for a year. He stops writing after a year because he had never gotten a response. In a local newspaper years later, Noah's picture catches Allie's eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year-old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie's heart nearly bursts and she faints; the last time she saw the house it was rotted and decaying, and Noah spoke of his plans to buy and renovate the house.

With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She feels she must go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. Noah seems distant when first seeing Allie. However, he invites her in after she mistakenly drives into his fence. Noah and Allie have lunch, visit and Noah walks her to her car later that evening. He asks her to come back the next morning, as he has something he wants to show her. Allie goes to her hotel, where she gets a phonecall from Lon. She tells Lon that she's tired, and will call him the next day. She goes back to Noah's house in the morning and he takes her out on the lake in a rowboat. Noah shows Allie a part of the lake, where hundreds of white ducks are gathered. It starts to rain heavily, and turns into an absolute downpour. They both wonder why each other ended the relationship and Allie says that she was never ready for the relationship to be over, to which Noah replies "It never was over for me, it still isn't over", and he then kisses Allie passionately. He carries her into the house, where they make love for the first time. In the morning, Allie asks Noah why he never wrote to her. Noah tells Allie that he wrote 365 letters but she apparently had never received them. When Allie's mother comes to pick her up after a few days, she learns that her mother's true love is a lumberjack whom she visits to see and wonder what would've happened had she followed her heart. She then leaves Allie to decide who she would like to be with after giving her the letters that Noah sent. Allie is then faced with the decision of picking between her finance Lon, and her true love Noah.

In the end, she realizes that she needed Noah in her life. She returned to Noah and they lived a long, wonderful life together. Allie gets Alzheimer's and soon forgets all of her life with Noah. Noah reads from a notebook Allie had written about all that happened in their life together, and soon gets Allie to remember, despite what her doctors said. At night, Noah sneaks into Allie's room and they die together peacefully in their sleep.

The film

The film adaptation of The Notebook was released on June 25, 2004 in North America and starred Ryan Gosling and James Garner as Noah Calhoun, Rachel McAdams and Gena Rowlands as Allie Hamilton, Sam Shepard as Frank Calhoun, Joan Allen as Anne Hamilton, David Thornton as John Hamilton, and James Marsden as Lon Hammond Jr. It was directed by Rowlands' real-life son, Nick Cassavetes. is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor. ... For other uses, see James Garner (disambiguation). ... Rachel McAdams (born October 7, 1978) is a Canadian actress. ... Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress. ... Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is a unique American artist whose talents have been expressed in many different areas. ... Joan Allen in a scene from The Contender Joan Allen (b. ... David Thornton plays Solo Euphonium for the famous Black Dyke Mills Band When asked to comment on David Thornton, Howard Snell (conductor and former princial trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra) said, He is that rare kind of musician - a true artist whose qualities transcend the instrument itself. ... James Paul Marsden (born September 18, 1973) is an American actor and former Versace model, perhaps best known for playing Cyclops in the X-Men films. ... Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes (born May 21, 1959) is an American actor, writer and director. ...

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• Ryan Gosling built the kitchen table featured in the movie in preparation for his role as Noah in the film.
• Rachel McAdams took etiquette lessons in preparation for her role as Allie in the film.
• Ryan Gosling wore brown eye contacts because James Garner has brown eyes, and Gosling's are naturally blue.
• Rachel McAdams beat many people for the role of Allie, including Britney Spears and Reese Witherspoon.
• The term "notebooked" has been used by the TV series One Tree Hill. It is used to describe a girl who makes a boy sad and emotional from watching the film. In a sentence this word is used: "I notebooked him." Coincidentally, Paul Johansson (Dan Scott in One Tree Hill) actually had an uncredited role in The Notebook as Anne Hamilton's former lover.
• McAdams and Gosling won the "Best Kiss" category in the 2005 MTV Movie Awards for their scene in the film. At the MTV Awards, Gosling and McAdams kissed on stage to prove they were worthy of the award and People described it as, "a coming out" for the couple as they were dating at that time.
• Stephen Dorff was originally set to play Noah Calhoun until he realized the producers were not willing to pay him his asking price.
• In the film Red Eye, Rachel McAdams' character attends her grandmother's funeral, and explains to another character that she lived to an old age with the help of "a guy named Duke," a possible homage to this film.
• Most images now of Noah and Allie kissing have Noah's beard photo sketched out.
• The song that is attributed to the couple throughout the movie is "I'll Be Seeing You".
• The poem that Noah reads out loud for his father when Allie comes to see him is Spontaneous Me, and the poem that Noah reads to Allie when she comes to visit him at the house is So Long, both of which are by Walt Whitman.
• James Garner, Ryan Gosling, and Gena Rowlands, and Joan Allen have all been nominated for Academy Awards.
• The film is referenced in the sketch Lazy Sunday; Andy Samberg raps that he loves the cupcakes like McAdams loved Gosling.
• The scene where Allie sees Lon for the first time, after his recovery as a wounded solider, is filmed in front of the Cistern at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.
• The piano piece that young Allie plays and old Allie memorizes is Chopin's Prelude in E minor Opus 28 #4.

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Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reported that 51% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 142 reviews.^[1] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 53 out of 100, based on 34 reviews.^[2] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and books. ...

The film was far more popular with women than with men. On the IMDb Women's Top 50 Films it is #27 [1], but men only scored it 7.4/10, far off the equivalent list. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ...

Box office performance

The film was released June 25, 2004 in the United States and Canada and grossed $13.4 million in 2,303 theaters its opening weekend, ranking #4 at the box office.^[3] The film grossed a total of $115.6 million worldwide — $81 million in the United States and Canada and $34.6 million elsewhere.^[4] is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

1. ^ The Notebook - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
2. ^ Notebook, The (2004): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
3. ^ The Notebook (2004) - Weekend Box Office Results. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
4. ^ The Notebook (2004). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2008-02-05.

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