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The Notebook

Behind every great love is a great story.

7.9(12,991)20042h 3m27

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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Behind the camera

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
  • C

    CinemaSerf

    9/4/2023

    7/10

    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…

  • R

    r96sk

    1/11/2024

    8/10

    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. …

  • W

    Wuchak

    5/4/2025

    7/10

    **_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…

  • B

    badelf

    6/26/2026

    8/10

    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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