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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 (more…)

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