Bittersweet and heart-wrenching, but beautiful love story

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2004)

While the story of young love (Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams) is full of passion, it is the true, deep, and mature love between the older couple (James Garner, Gena Rowlands) that strikes the heart at its core. Gena Rowlands plays a woman who is losing her mind to Alzheimer's. Garner's works to pull her mind back, to help her experience the joy of shared memory... of a lifetime together full of love and happiness. This is not a "date" movie--although many dating couples would probably go--this is much deeper and is probably best experienced by a "married couple," where the thought of losing one's true love to the dementia of their mind is perhaps worse than death itself. Bring a handful of tissue with you.