The Notebook Page #2

Synopsis: In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and han
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Nick Cassavetes
Production: New Line Cinema
  12 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
PG-13
Year:
2004
123 min
$81,000,000
Website
22,636 Views


You just tell me what you want

and I'll be that for you.

You're dumb.

I could be that.

Come on, one date.

What's it gonna hurt?

Umm...

I don't think so.

Well, what I can I do

to change your mind?

Guess you'll figure

something out.

- You sure she's coming?

- Relax, pal, it's all set up.

We're meeting her

for the late show.

Look... what did

I tell you? Come on.

Oh my goodness,

what a coincidence!

I need to talk to you

for a second.

- He's here!

- Allie, you remember Noah, don't you?

- Yes, I remember.

- Yeah.

- Come here.

- Fin!

- Hi.

- Hi.

- It's nice to see you again.

- You too.

- You look great.

- Aw, thanks.

Really, really great.

You do look great.

You look great.

And I know I look great,

so could we please go see this movie?

- The show's about to start.

- After you.

You come back here,

Li'l Abner.

You ain't gonna catch me,

Daisy Mae!

It's Sadie Hawkins Day,

I'm supposed to catch you!

I'm faster than you.

No, No!

I'll get you!

I'm going get...

Here I come!

You better run fast!

You ketchum Polecat

far and squar.

Wait for me.

What happened

in that movie?

- Here you go.

- Thank you.

- What are you guys doing?

- Want to walk with me?

Yeah, what's going on?

- Yeah.

- We're gonna walk.

Do you guys

love each other?

Huh?

Oh, I get it.

- You guys do love each other.

- Don't do anything I wouldn't do.

Okay, good bye.

- All right, all right.

- Mmm...

That was fun.

Mm-hmm.

I haven't seen a movie

in ages.

- Really?

- Huh-uh.

Not since

I was a little kid.

What?

No, I, uh...

I'm busy, you know,

I don't have a lot of time.

- You're busy?

- Mm-hmm.

I have a very

strict schedule.

My days are all

planned out.

I get up in the morning... breakfast,

math tutor, Latin tutor, lunch,

tennis lessons, dance lessons...

sometimes both...

French tutor, piano lesson,

then I eat dinner.

And after dinner

I spend time with my family.

And then I... I catch up

on some reading.

Wow.

Sounds like the road

to success.

Oh, you bet.

We're applying

to all these colleges...

umm... Radcliffe, Sarah Lawrence...

those are the ones we want.

- And who's we?

- What?

You just said,

"The ones that we want."

Oh, Mom and Daddy.

We decide

everything together.

Everything?

No, not everything.

But the important

things, yes.

And then everything else,

you get to decide all by yourself?

- Don't be rude.

- I'm sorry.

Just trying to figure out

what you do for fun.

What do you mean?

I mean...

I don't know,

I mean all those things

are things you

have to do, right?

So what do you do

because you want to?

I just told ya.

I don't know.

This surprises me.

Why?

I just always figured

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Jeremy Leven

Jeremy Leven (born 1941) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. Born in South Bend, Indiana, Leven lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut, Paris, and New York City. more…

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