The Notebook
Elderly love remembered
A 2004 American romantic drama film adapted from Nicholas Sparks's novel, following a love story told through an elderly man reading to a woman with dementia.
The title refers to the journal containing their shared history.
The film became a touchstone of romantic melodrama: We watched The Notebook and cried our eyes out.
Often invoked as shorthand for tearjerker romance or idealized love.
- romanceLove and its excitement
- AllieDiminutive feminine name
- NoahBiblical vessel builder
- first loveEarliest romantic attachment
- summer romanceBrief warm-season relationship
Ryan Gosling · Rachel McAdams · love story · letters · summer · rain · kiss · Alzheimer's · nursing home · memory · journal · diary · pages · passion · tearjerker · Nicholas Sparks · South Carolina · lake house
- Adapted NovelsHarry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings
- romance fictionlove stories, romance novel, romance novels, contemporary romance, romantic fiction
- musicalsWicked, Les Miserables, Cats, Chicago, Grease
- tragic romanceRomeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Wuthering Heights, doomed lovers, star-crossed
- tearjerkerstearjerker, tearjerkers, weepie, weepies, weepy
- rom-comsrom-com, romantic comedy, romcom, Pretty Woman, meet-cute
The NotebookDumb and Dumber
1994 buddy comedy about fools
The Hangover · Scary Movie · Friday the 13th · Die Hard · Borat
The NotebookFight Club
Organized bare-knuckle gathering
The Expendables · Rambo · Predator · Die Hard · 300
notebook, note, book, notes, noted, noting, notable, notably, notation