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About
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
Theatrical
Jun 25, 2004
Digital
Jul 1, 2025
Box Office
$115.6M
Budget
$29.0M
Return
4.0x
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 8, 2005
Theaters
6
Director
Nick Cassavetes
Writers
Jeremy Leven, Jan Sardi
Producers
Avram Butch Kaplan, Mark Johnson, Lynn Harris
Music
Aaron Zigman
Studio
New Line Cinema, Avery Pix, Gran Via Productions
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Quotes
See all →Concern Over Daughter's Summer Romance
Anne Hamilton
She is out foolin around with that boy until two o'clock in the morning and it has got to stop! I didn't spend seventeen years of my life raising a daughter and giving her everything so she could throw it away on a summer romance!
Love's Potential and Boundless Possibilities
Allie
Do you think our love can take us away together?
Duke
I think our love can do anything we want it to.
Summer Decisions and Emotional Turmoil
Young Noah
We can just finish out the summer and see what happens then.
Young Allie
Please don't do this. You don't mean it. Well, if you're going to do it, why wait until the summer ends? Why don't you do it right now? Huh? C'mon. Do it! Do it! STOP IT! You know what? I'm gonna do it! It's over. Okay? It's over.
[pushes Noah against the truck; repeatedly pushes Noah, starts hitting Noah]
Young Noah
Come here.
[opens his arms for a hug]
Young Allie
Don't touch me! I hate you! I hate you!
Young Noah
OK, I'm going.
Young Allie
Why don't you just go then? Get out! LEAVE!!!!! GO!! GO!!! No, no, just wait a minute. We're not really breaking up, are we? Come on. This is just a fight we're having and tomorrow it will be like it never happened, right?
[pushes Noah in the truck; kicks Noah's truck; Noah drives away]
A Simple Acknowledgment of Love
Allie
They fell in love, didn't they?
Duke
Yes, they did.
Cast
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Ryan Gosling
Noah Calhoun
R
Rachel McAdams
Allie Hamilton
G
Gena Rowlands
Older Allie
J
James Garner
Older Noah "Duke"
Joan Allen
Anne Hamilton
D
David Thornton
John Hamilton
J
James Marsden
Lon Hammond
K
Kevin Connolly
Fin
S
Sam Shepard
Frank Calhoun
S
Starletta DuPois
Nurse Esther
E
Ed Grady
Harry
J
Jennifer Echols
Nurse Selma
H
Heather Wahlquist
Sara Tuffington
C
Cullen Moss
Bodee
T
Thunderbird Dinwiddie
Veronica
J
James Middleton
Aaron
P
Peter Rosenfeld
Professor
O
Obba Babatundé
Band Leader
C
Chuck Pacheco
Bus Driver
T
Todd Lewis
Reporter
