The Notebook

Released: 2004
Romance
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams
Running Time: 123 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown:  A young couple's story is told through the eyes of the elderly couple they become.

I had heard A LOT about this movie and how it was some people's favorite love story OF ALL TIME.
Man, was that a joke.
This is based on a book with the same title by Nicholas Sparks, and although that book might be great, the movie was not.
It starts out with an elderly couple living in a retirement home and she has Alzheimer's (how romantic!)  The husband reads to her everyday trying to make her remember who they both are.  The movie goes back and forth between the young version and the old version.
A lack of chemistry and a lack of shame by the end of the film, this movie was a thumbs down for me.
The filmmakers really seemed determined to make you cry your eyes out, no matter how they did that, using all the plot devices and predictability they could muster.
The ending is shameless and embarrassingly bad.

0 out of 5 for me.
SKIP IT!!!