

The Notebook
Behind every great love is a great story.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $29M
- Box office
- $115.6M
- Language
- English
- secret love
- soulmates
- based on novel or book
- love of one's life
- fight
- poem
- river
- sadness
- class
- dementia
- tears
- candle
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Produced in
United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTT4 Oct 2017
United StatesUS
- PremiereSeattle International Film Festival20 May 2004
- PremiereProvincetown International Film Festival17 Jun 2004
- TheatricalPG-1325 Jun 2004
- Theatrical (limited)PG-136 Apr 2025
- Digital / OTT1 Jul 2025
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A25 Jun 2004
- Physical128 Oct 2004
- Theatrical (limited)12A20 Oct 2015
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Theatrical12 Jan 2005
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG14 Oct 2004
CanadaCA
- Theatrical25 Jun 2004
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical28 Oct 2004
AustriaAT
- Theatrical63 Sept 2004
BahrainBH
- Theatrical26 Jan 2005
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical22 Sept 2004
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1413 Aug 2004
- Theatrical14Relançamento10 Dec 2026
ChileCL
- Theatrical16 Dec 2004
Frequently asked questions
The Notebook was released on 25 June 2004.
Audience reviews
4- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/4/2023
A gently touching look at an elderly couple who must deal with present day mental illness told through a retrospective of their not uneventful lives. Rachel McAdams is "Allie", a young girl from a wealthy family who falls for "Noah" (Ryan Gosling) but her mother wants much better for her, so takes her away to their city home and keeps all of his (365) letters. He joins the Army and fights in WWII and, after time, she…
- R8/10
r96sk
1/11/2024
Touching! Despite evidently not watching this until today, I've always heard about the sad tag that many associate with <em>'The Notebook'</em> - and I can see why. Given I didn't know anything other than that, I was not anticipating how the film portrays its story - which is effective and rather heartbreaking. I'm not one to get properly emotional to movies, though hit the feels this one does still certainly do. …
- W7/10
Wuchak
5/4/2025
**_Love story in the 1940s near the coast of South Carolina_** An aged man at a nursing home (James Garner) reads a romantic tale of two young lovers around the WW2 years (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) to a woman with dementia (Gena Rowlands). Sam Shepard plays the young man’s father while James Marsden is on hand as his competitor. "The Notebook” (2004) comes in the tradition of romantic dramas like “Messag…
- B8/10
badelf
6/26/2026
My wife and I, being of a certain age, find this film to be one of the most poignant and heartwarming love stories ever read, heard, or seen (* Doctor Zhivago notwithstanding). Yes, it's quite predictable, but that doesn't influence the score. If you are younger, all I can say is, may you be blessed with such a love.
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