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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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04/23/09
Many critics will no doubt tar this film with the dreaded "Lifetime movie" epithet, but I'd venture a bit further -- Nights in Rodanthe is the world's longest General Foods International Coffee commercial.
09/24/08
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
This is one of those unapologetic, tear-jerking romances. There's nothing really wrong with that, but it occasionally lays things on a little thick when it should have been holding back.
10/06/08
Most of the movie was cloying. All of it was predictable.
11/05/08
'Nights in Rodanthe' serves up too much manipulated sentimentality for my taste, even though I admit being incurably romantic most of the time.
09/27/08
This Windstorms of North Carolina Counties is so overwrought and Harlequin-ed that only the most susceptible of spinsters or inexperienced poetry majors will fall for its faux passions.
09/26/08
Vomit inducing, treacly nonsense.
09/26/08
Grief is trotted out and cheaply exploited in order to burnish instant love with faux-realism . . . And then the ending--where we're told that we not only can but MUST believe in love, and life, again. Who knew a romance could be so depressingly cynical?
10/09/08
Even if you are rooting for this film to succeed, you find yourself sitting through the tear-jerking part of the movie without feeling terribly wrapped up in it.
02/10/09
Typical Sparks formula: difficult circumstances, unlikely love, delirious joy, gut-wrenching tragedy, and redemptive moral. Unfortunately, this film doesn't deliver the goods.
09/29/08
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
Though the leads are attractive. the plot collapses under the weight of its ridiculous circumstances.
10/06/08
Nice performances can't save this dull movie from its bum script.
09/27/08
You would pretty much have to be sentimental to tolerate such schlock, or at least be willing to check your cynicism at the multiplex door.
09/24/08
Top CriticThough the stars are likable and attractive, the movie is a melodramatic and soppy affair.
09/26/08
"Nights in Rodanthe" is a passable tearjerker for aging women, but less so for the rest of us.
09/22/08
The story needs rage and poetry and red-blooded sensuality, and we get respectable stodginess.
09/26/08
Just about provides the goods as a romantic weepie but not the best Sparks adaptation.
10/10/08
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