The Notebook (novel)
The Notebook is a love story by Nicholas Sparks. The story opens present-day in a nursing home, where an elderly man reads bits and pieces of a love story of two young lovers from a notebook to his female companion. Young Noah Calhoun, a lumberyard worker, is instantly smitten with fifteen-year-old Allie Nelson, the daughter of a well-to-do Southern family who is spending the summer at their vacation home in 1940s North Carolina. Allie's parents disapprove of their relationship, and Noah and Allie are separated. However, Noah and Allie's paths cross again fourteen years later, but Allie is engaged to wealthy Lon Hammond. The Notebook film adaptation became a "sleeper hit" in Summer 2004 and put Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling on the map in Hollywood as "up-and-comers."
Film version
The film version was released June 25, 2004. It starred James Garner, Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Marsden, and Gena Rowlands and was directed by Rowlands' real-life son, Nick Cassavetes.
Differences from novel
- In the film, Allie Hamilton is seventeen years old.
- In the film adaptation, Noah and Allie meet again after seven years, not fourteen.
Trivia
- The term "Notebooked" has been used by TV Series, One Tree Hill. It is used to describe a girl who makes a boy sad and emotional from watching the film. In a sentence this word is used: "I notebooked him."
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