Something about Diane Lane’s performance, especially in that third act, really got me involved in the film emotionally.
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11/05/08
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Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:6
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.4/10
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
Top CriticMost of the movie was cloying. All of it was predictable.
11/05/08
Top CriticThe comparative savvy that Wolfe showed in HBO’s stage-to-TV transfer of Lackawanna Blues has gone missing.
10/18/08
Top CriticRichard Gere suffers less than Diane Lane. He gets by with a mixture of skill and self-irony. She acts up a storm in every scene, but you root for the hurricane.
09/26/08
Top CriticWhat really sells this three-hanky tear-jerker -- and there were a lot of women buying it during a recent screening -- is Lane's steely and vulnerable performance. Like Tinker Bell, she almost made me believe in fairies. Almost.
09/26/08
Top CriticThough the stars are likable and attractive, the movie is a melodramatic and soppy affair.
09/26/08
Top CriticNo character in this turbulent sea of love crashing on the shores of misfortune is any more developed than they are in Sparks' potboiler.
09/26/08
Top CriticThe film tastefully yet unenergetically chugs along.
09/26/08
Top CriticThe movie around Lane and Gere is unreal, a tortured construct, but they open a breathing space in its center.
09/26/08
Top CriticI 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 CriticIt's an increasingly rare pleasure to see two naturally aging adults onscreen, and it's not exactly hard work to watch this still-gorgeous pair fall in love. Especially if you're overdue for a little vacation from reality yourself.
09/26/08
Top CriticRodanthe is the Death Valley of erotic illusion.
09/26/08
Top CriticNights in Rodanthe aims straight for the tear ducts as well, but this weepie is a dry well.
09/26/08
Top CriticThe story needs rage and poetry and red-blooded sensuality, and we get respectable stodginess.
09/26/08
Top CriticThis romantic stinker is one of those films in which every plot development becomes a life lesson and every gesture is weighted with significance.
09/26/08
Top CriticAbout those Nights in Rodanthe: They're about as steamy as a cup of tea.
09/26/08
Top CriticThere are not enough actual scenes to keep us sufficiently engaged to care about the third-act event that changes their destiny.
09/26/08
Top CriticIt's no wonder the faithful continue to forsake the movies, given junky embarrassments like Nights in Rodanthe.
09/26/08
Top CriticRodanthe is a reliably steamy stormy sultry story about Inner Change at the Outer Banks where strangers become intimates.
09/25/08
Top CriticThe movie attempts to jerk tears with one clunky device after another, in a plot that is a perfect storm of cliche and contrivance.
09/25/08
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