Vomit inducing, treacly nonsense.
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09/26/08
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Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
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Reviews Counted:126
Fresh:39
Rotten:87
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Derivative and schmaltzy, Nicholas Sparks' Nights in Rodanthe is strongly mottled by contrivances that even the charisma of stars Diane Lane and Richard Gere can't repair.
Theatrical Release:Sep 26, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $41,840,908
Synopsis: Diane Lane and Richard Gere team up for the third time (after COTTON CLUB and UNFAITHFUL) for this three-hankie romance based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. Adrienne Willis (Lane) feels her life... [More]
Starring: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, Christopher Meloni
Director: George C Wolfe
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Reviews for Nights in Rodanthe
Rodanthe is the Death Valley of erotic illusion.
09/26/08
Top CriticMe, I found a few things to like and much to loathe.
09/26/08
A tad clunky and sappy and yes, even hokey. But, the picture still works. I was always engaged, I was always interested in what happened next, and I was always entertained.
10/03/08
Despite the basic likability of the stars, that crucial chemistry is not sizzling or even hugely compelling, their situation seems slightly contrived and the movie is somehow not half as emotionally involving as it needs to be.
09/26/08
I can kind-of, sort-of see how this story might work as a novel. Bad dialogue doesn't sound as howlingly awful when not spoken aloud. Idiotic plot contrivances don't seem as painful and obvious.
09/26/08
Top CriticA modern-day romance between two mature people.
10/01/08
While it may be discerned as more a vehicle for the actors' reunion than a creative gem, the contributive factor to its attractiveness is the chemistry of the match.
02/15/09
Despite stretches of credulity in the plot, the on-screen chemistry between Gere and Lane carries the movie.
09/27/08
Diane Lane and the Tuscan countryside prove to be a more dynamic duo than Diane Lane and the Outer Banks.
11/26/08
A romantic drama that is plagued by artificiality.
09/26/08
Some of us could happily watch Diane Lane reading the Congressional Record. But there are limits to that devotion. Like Nights in Rodanthe.
09/26/08
I imagine that the Nicholas Sparks fan base is going to eat this movie up. However, for myself, it was one of the most boring movies of the year.
09/26/08
perfectly calibrated to jerk tears with the precision of the atomic clock at the U.S. Naval Observatory, and with the irresistible insistence of an industrial grade milking machine
09/28/08
I will say this about Nights in Rodanthe: spoken Nicholas Sparks is preferable to written Nicholas Sparks.
11/09/08
Indoors, there is elegant if unconvincing emotional drama you can see coming from half a mile down the beach, with very little com to lighten the rom.
10/10/08
...a goopy, disjointed weepie elevated ever so slightly by the reteaming of "Unfaithful" costars Gere and Lane.
09/25/08
This involving movie ultimately succumbs to a severe case of the weepies, as we know it must
10/05/08
You know,s ometimes a movie is worth it just because of its texture.
10/23/08
Sure its soapy and saccharine but that is exactly what Nicholas Sparks' fans want
09/29/08
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