Incredible film--some spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (23 June 2004)

I'd never seen this director's work before, so I was kinda iffy about seeing it-even though from the previews I was in love with the plot, and I love Nicholas Sparks novels. I sat in a cold movie theater, watched it, and I was royally amazed.
The story you see in the previews is basically a frame tale revolving around a man and a very forgetful woman. He reads to her every day so that she will remember certain events.
The story the man tells her is about these two seventeen year olds, Allie and Noah. Allie is a city girl who is very concerned about pleasing everyone, and making sure that everyone is happy in the end. Noah is a hardworking man, who gets 40 cents an hour, but knows exactly how to get what he wants. In the film, he wants Allie from the moment he first sets eyes on her. To get to her, he dangles from a ferris wheel until she agrees to go out with him, though she later denies the whole thing. With the help of two of Noah's friends, they see a movie together and then walk and talk. After that they become inseparable.
Allie has to go to Sarah Lawrence in the fall, which is nowhere near where Noah and the others are. Before she leaves, the two get into a huge fight and "break up". Allie tries to find Noah to apologize, but he is gone. For a year after she left, he wrote her every day for an entire year, but with no response. He gives up, and becomes enlisted in the army.
During Allie's third year, she decided to be a nurse's assistant, where she meets Lon. She promises to date him once he gets better, and they fall in love and are going to get married. Allie reads a newspaper article about how her wedding is going to be the hit of the season, when she notices a picture of Noah with a house he refurbished.
You can find out the rest by seeing the movie. It is so worth the money, and an excellent date film.