The Notebook

The film adaptation of The Notebook was released on June 25, 2004 in North America. It starred Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen and James Marsden. It was directed by Rowlands's real-life son, Nick Cassavetes.


Set in a modern day nursing home, an elderly man named Noah, but called "Duke" (James Garner), begins to read a love story from his notebook to an elderly woman named Allie. Allie suffered from Alzheimer's, she is Noah's wife. Before her Dementia intensified, Allie wrote the love story of her and Noah down in a notebook. She gave it to him with instructions to read it to her on days she couldn't remember, promising that her memory would come back as Noah read her their love story.

The year is 1940. Noah and Allie are at a carnival. Noah (Ryan Gosling), a country boy who is with his friend Fin (Kevin Connolly), first sees Allie (Rachel McAdams), a seventeen-year-old girl from a rich family, who is with her friend Sara (Heather Wahlquist). Noah is immediately smitten with Allie and he continuously asks her out on dates, only to be playfully rejected by her. Noah hangs off the Ferris Wheel and tells Allie that he will let go if she didn’t accept. Soon, they wind up spending the evening with each other while going to a late night show with Fin and Sara. On a midnight walk through an empty SeaBrook, Noah learns of how tightly scheduled Allie's life was with her daily schedules and activities. Yet he sees a deeper side in her, a side yearning to be free and he likes that. The first featuring of "I'll Be Seeing You" is played as they dance in the street.