The comparative savvy that Wolfe showed in HBO’s stage-to-TV transfer of Lackawanna Blues has gone missing.
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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
Top CriticEven though it is competently mounted, Nights in Rodanthe's unrestrained sentimentality will no doubt make many girlfriends swoon even as it makes their boyfriends squirm uncomfortably.
10/10/08
Lane and Gear ensure that Nights in Rodanthe is never less than watchable, but it's scuppered by an overly sentimental script and fails to deliver the required emotional punch.
10/10/08
The word formulaic doesn’t quite cover it, but our two leads just about hold their heads above a tidal surge of sappy plotting, contrived dialogue and choppy editing.
10/10/08
There is nothing new here – but taking the film on face value, everything that needs to be done right is spot on.
10/10/08
It ticks the right boxes to be a hit - the tear jerking aspect being key to the word of mouth - but it's a movie that rarely breaks out of it's average confines.
10/10/08
I'd hoped the lathered-up romanticism of Nights in Rodanthe would stop me from thinking about the awfulness of what's going on in the world. It didn't; it compounded it.
10/10/08
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
As homespun as a crocheted teacosy; as folksy as an heirloom patchwork quilt and as manufactured as reproduction Shaker furniture – that’s Nights in Rodanthe.
10/10/08
Just about provides the goods as a romantic weepie but not the best Sparks adaptation.
10/10/08
Broadway director George C Wolfe’s inexperience with visual storytelling makes everything go with a clunk. Shame.
10/10/08
It’s like The Bridges Of Madison County with more shouting, only not nearly as good. No surprises whatsoever, but nice scenery, attractive stars and another credible, affecting performance from Lane that hoiks it up an extra star.
10/10/08
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
Richard Gere's latest is the sort of weepy that gets shown on daytime TV in between the over-50s life insurance ads.
10/09/08
It's the film of a Lifetime...cable network.
10/08/08
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
Though the leads are attractive. the plot collapses under the weight of its ridiculous circumstances.
10/06/08
This involving movie ultimately succumbs to a severe case of the weepies, as we know it must
10/05/08
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
A modern-day romance between two mature people.
10/01/08
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