Though the stars are likable and attractive, the movie is a melodramatic and soppy affair.
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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
Painfully maudlin and cliched.
09/26/08
No 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
Nights in Rodanthe is a soap opera, for sure, but it's a beautifully-acted one and director George C. Wolfe revels in the story's swoony lushness.
09/26/08
Cinematically unexciting but a welcome glimpse at the complications of life after age 40.
09/26/08
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
The film tastefully yet unenergetically chugs along.
09/26/08
The movie around Lane and Gere is unreal, a tortured construct, but they open a breathing space in its center.
09/26/08
Top CriticEven though their clinches aren't sexy, Gere and Lane still make an extremely attractive pair. They seem to fit together, whether dancing or just talking.
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 CriticThis isn't a movie: it's a feature-length Ralph Lauren commercial.
09/26/08
It'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
Rodanthe 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
Richard Gere and Diane Lane engage themselves fully with the flimsy material, making their one-note characters engaging, sympathetic and always perfectly coiffed, even in the face of gale-force winds.
09/26/08
This movie works so strenuously to satisfy its target audience’s every desire that it’s a minor surprise that the filmmakers didn’t provide cashmere blankets, a snuggly pair of slippers and a warm cup of cocoa for everyone entering the theater.
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
The dialogue alone in Nights in Rodanthe made me choke back tears. It's like being pepper-sprayed that way.
09/26/08
Too tepid and too predictable of a picture to simply sail away into the sunset.
09/26/08
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