Nights in Rodanthe

Mom read the book Nights in Rodanthe by Nicolas Sparks. Sparks is the one that also wrote The NoteBook. The Notebook was one of the most romantic movies made but I had a hard time with it because it just struck to close to home. Since Mom read Nights in Rodanthe she wanted to see the movie based on the novel by Sparks. It is so hard these days to find a movie that I can get mom to go to so I was glad that mom wanted to give this one a shot.

Mom, Sis, Brother-in-Law and Moi went to a Friday afternoon showing of Nights in Rodanthe starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane and the scene stealing Scott Glenn. The movie was directed by George George C. Wolfe mostly known for directing plays entering the film genre in 2004 with the HBO film Lackawanna Blues. The screenplay written by Ann Peacock and John Romano. Peacock's most recent work was Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. Romano most known as an emmy nominated TV Director, directing episodes of Monk, Hill Street Blues, and Third Watch also directed the movie Intolerable Cruelty.

A description of the movie as taken from the Fandango advertisement:

"Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane), a woman with her life in chaos, retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend’s inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her—a wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teenaged daughter who resents her every decision. Almost as soon as Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, a major storm is forecast and Dr. Paul Flanner (Richard Gere) arrives. The only guest at the inn, Flanner is not on a weekend escape but rather is there to face his own crisis of conscience. Now, with the storm closing in, the two turn to each other for comfort and, in one magical weekend, set in motion a life-changing romance that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives. "

The movie was extremely sappy and your ultimate chick flick. A good cry with a sister, friend, and could be a date movie with the right guy. Not first date because a man just shouldn't cry until at least the third date. Well acted with some but not out of sight chemistry between Lane and Gere. Beautiful scenery, great musical score, and a wonderful understated perfomance by Scott Glenn. Glenn is going to play Donald Rumsfeld in the upcoming W, played Sheriff Rollins in a couple of episodes of Monk, but you might remember him as Ezra Kramer in The Born Ultimatum.

For me the scene of the movie was one between Gere and Glenn, with Lane in the outskirts. In the scene Glenn describes his deceased wife. The real love story in the movie wasn't the one between Richard Gere and Diane Lane it was between Robert Torrelson (Glenn) and his wife, Jill Torrelson (Linda Molloy). In this scene Torreslon describes his wife to Dr. Flanner, his wife was flawed but all Torrelson saw was the most beautiful woman in the world. He loved her just the way she was and loved her every day of their forty three years of marriage. That is real love folks. I look forward to the day that I meet a woman that I can describe with such love after one year of togetherness let alone forty three years of marriage.

One football for the music, one football for the scenery, one football for Glenn. 3 of 5. An enjoyable couple of hours.

OK Ladies close your eyes because I want to give some advise to the men out there. If you go to Nights in Rodanthe with your sister, mother, girl friend or wife, during a Lane and Gere love scene don't turn to them and whisper "I have bigger boobs than Diane Lane", it could be dangerous.