Nights in Rodanthe

Adapted from author Nicholas Sparks' popular romance novel, director George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe tells the tale of a doctor (Richard Gere) en route to reconcile with his estranged son when his benevolent mission is sidelined upon checking into a North Carolina beach-town inn. When the ...more

Diane Lane and Richard Gere are a bankable box office twosome, proven by their success with the sultry thriller Unfaithful. The duo sizzles with on-screen chemistry, appealing, markedly so, to the 40-something set for which romance is not past its prime. Nights in Rodanthe is sentimental schmaltz that aims to remind us that finding the love of a lifetime is possible as we fumble towardsmiddle age. The film is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks of The Notebook fame, so head to the ...more

In her classic tome -From Reverence to Rape, longtime Village Voice critic Molly Haskell reflects on the deliberate way in which many films of classic Hollywood gave greater contours to the dramatic outlines of our daily lives and emotional experiences, creating a heightened artificiality -- an emotional magnification that many viewers naturally warmed to as a product of self-identification or, more commonly, self-aspiration. In this context, glossy depictions of romantic love naturally took ...more