Sweeping romance directed by Nick Cassavetes, set in a small coastal town in the American South
- partly in the 1940s, & partly in the present day. In the present day scenes, an elderly man (James Garner) reads from a faded notebook to an old woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he regularly visits at her nursing home. As he reads, a passionate love story unfolds about a young couple
- Noah Calhoun & Allie Hamilton (played in flashback scenes by Ryan Gosling & Rachel Mc Adams)
- whose fledgling love affair was abruptly ended by circumstances & the sudden outbreak of World War 2. But although fate drives the young couple apart, they continue to be haunted by memories of their affair, & when Noah returns from the war seven years later, he realises that he cannot forget the promises they made to one other
- despite the fact that Allie is engaged to be married to another man. Classification
- 15