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The Notebook is a 2004 movie production based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, published in 1996.

The movie begins with an elderly woman at a retirement home who is being read a story by a man named Duke.  The story is of a young country boy named Noah Calhoun and heiress Allie Hamilton.  After Noah and Allie spend a summer together, Allie's parents decide this boy is not in the best interest of her future, and decide to leave town a week early.  During the next year, Allie's parent fail to pass on the 365 letters Noah has written, while Allie has met a soldier whom she eventually becomes engaged to.

In the end, it's Allie who has to choose who she will end up with - Lon, her fiance who is everything society thinks her husband should be, or Noah, the one she feels she should be with.

It's later revealed that Allie is the old woman whom the story is being read to, but because she suffers from dementia, she cannot remember this story of her past with Noah.

Cast: Joan Allen, Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Kevin Connolly, Sam Shepard, David Thornton, John Thornton, Tim O'Brien, James Middleton, Mark Garner, Sherril M. Turner, Hugh A. Robertson, Deborah Hobart, Rebecca Koon, Robert Washington, Traci Dinwiddie, Jonathan Parks Jordan, Heather Wahlquist, Barbara Weetman, Todd Lewis, Robert Fraisse, Mark Johnson, Patrick Leonard, Scott Ritenour, Ed Grady, Obba Babatunde, Matthew Barry, Starletta DuPois, Geoffrey Knight, Eve Kagan, Meredith Zealy, Milton Buras, Cullen Moss, Jamie Brown, Tim Ivey, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas, Renée Amber, Jennifer Echols, Andrew Schaff, Matt Shelly, Michael D. Fuller, Leslea Fisher, Jude Kitchens, Meredith O'Brien, Kweli Leapart, Frederick Bingham, Daniel Czekalski, Peter Rosenfeld, Bradley D. Capshaw, James Scott Deaton, Stephanie Wheeler, Erin Guzowski, Chuck Pacheco, John A. Cundari, Dan Chamblin, Sasha Azevedo, Robert Ivey, Sandra W. VanNatta, Lindy Newton, Sylvia Jefferies, Elizabeth Bond, Nancy DeMayo, Julianne Keller Lewis, Madison Wayne Ellis, Riley Novak, Ronald Betts

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Release Date: June 25, 2004

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Screen Writer: Nick Cassavetes

Runtime: 2hrs 4min