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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 Noah and Allie, 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
patient, played by Gena Rowlands. In a modern-day nursing home, an
elderly man named Duke begins to read a love story to his elderly woman
companion from a book he carries. In 1940, at a carnival in Seabrook
Island, South Carolina, local country boy Noah Calhoun sees 17-year-old
heiress Allie Hamilton for the first time and is immediately smitten.
She continuously refuses his persistent advances until their
well-meaning friends lure them together. Noah and Allie spend an idyllic
summer together, though her wealthy parents are less than enthusiastic
about their summer romance.
