The Notebook is a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who fall in love during the early 1940s. Their story is narrated from the present day by an elderly man played by James Garner, telling the tale to a fellow nursing home resident, played by Gena Rowlands. At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man named Duke begins to read a love story from his notebook to a female fellow patient . The story begins in 1940. At a carnival in Seabrook Island, South... Carolina, local country boy Noah Calhoun sees seventeen-year-old heiress Allie Hamilton for the first time and is immediately smitten. She coyishly resists his advances until their well-meaning friends lure them together; he courts her, and they find each other on a midnight walk through empty Seabrook, where she tells him she loves to paint. Noah and Allie share an idyllic summer love affair together.
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| Release date: | November 20, 2004 |
| Directed by: | Nick Cassavetes |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mark Johnson, Lynn Harris |
| Editor: | Alan Heim |
| Music by: | Aaron Zigman |
| Cinematography: | Robert Fraisse |
| Screenplay by: | Jan Sardi, Jeremy Leven |
| Estimated budget: | $29,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Notebook |