A wonderful heart warming love story that you can grow old with!

Rating: 10/10 (3 April 2010)

The Notebook is such a wonderful and heart warming love story that I have to comment on it. I some how missed this movie in the theaters, but was fortunate to find it while browsing the video's at my local Blockbuster. It was Rachael McAdams' beauty that caught my eye, and made me want to watch this movie, but as soon as I started to watch this film, I was reminded of one of my past loves that I met, and had lost and only wished that It was I in this film as Noah kissing the very beautiful Rachael McCadams.
Rachael plays a young teenager named Allie, who spends the summer with her family in a small town, and meets a young local boy who she eventually falls in love with, but is forbidden to see by her mother who wants her to marry a man who is wealthy and has a high social standing in society. Ryan Gosling who plays Noah, writes to her every day while Allie goes off to college, but Allie never writes back to Noah, and she believes that he has never written her, and he must have been using her.
Finally they both move on with their lives until Noah decides to sell his home that he had promised Allie that he would some day buy, and restore.
Allie by chance reads about Noah's home for sale in the newspaper, and realizes that she still has feelings for him, and although she is engaged to be married to a dashing and handsome soldier who comes from a wealthy family, has doubts and wonders why Noah never wrote her or ever tried to find her.
This story also has an interesting twist when the older Noah who is played by James Gardner is reading a story to a an older woman who has Alzheimers that is in a nursing home.
Each actor in this film gives a great performance, but the passion between Noah and Allie makes you feel just how much your first love will always be special to you no matter how much time has passed since you both have been with each other, or any other relationship that you each may have had in life's many twists and ironies.
The Notebook is a modern day classic love story that you can watch with your children over and over again.
Jose F. Medeiros