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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 Hamilton, 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 seven 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, not fifteen.
In the film adaptation, Noah and Allie meet again after seven years, not fourteen.
The film takes place in South Carolina in the fictional city of Seabrook, and the novel takes place in New Bern, North Carolina.
In the film Noah dated a neighbor named Martha Shaw, and in the book their relationship is simply platonic. However in the novel he did have a serious girlfriend after Allie who was very similar to the Martha character. She was completely written out of the film.
In the film, Noah and Allie die together at the end, whereas in the novel only Allie dies. Noah's story is continued in the novel The Wedding.

Quotes

"It's not about keeping your promises, it's about following your heart."

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've give me. That's what I'd hope to give to you forever."

Trivia

The term "Notebooked" has been used by the 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."

The site of the plantation home in the movie was converted into a Whataburger in 1999

The novel was loosely based on the real life relationship of the grandparents of Nicholas Sparks' wife.

McAdams and Gosling were both born in the same hospital in London, Ontario.

The Notebook was mentioned in the December 2005 Saturday Night Live
sketch Lazy Sunday.

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Movies - The Notebook

Film version

Differences from novel

Quotes

Trivia

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