This romantic stinker is one of those films in which every plot development becomes a life lesson and every gesture is weighted with significance.
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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
About those Nights in Rodanthe: They're about as steamy as a cup of tea.
09/26/08
Top CriticIt's very neat, and I don't mean that as a compliment.
09/26/08
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
A romantic drama that is plagued by artificiality.
09/26/08
Imagine picking up a book, reading a couple of pages and then skipping ahead a couple of chapters. The connection between these two characters came out of nowhere.
09/26/08
Sensitive and sentimental - bring tissue, it's a weeper.
09/26/08
...a cinematic engine design to elicit cheap emotional responses instead of earning them through deep characterization and well thought out plotting.
09/26/08
...a cinematic engine design to elicit cheap emotional responses instead of earning them through deep characterization and well thought out plotting.
09/26/08
Me, I found a few things to like and much to loathe.
09/26/08
There 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
Okay, look: everybody has got to stop crying.
09/26/08
The central performances are solid -- but they'd have to be, to make something this rote and formulaic come even close to working.
09/25/08
A movie needs a reason to exist other than to wring tears out of overemotional people.
09/25/08
Where is Dutch Schultz and his meat fork when you need them?
09/25/08
This is a grown up love story for those of us who have been singed by love, but still want to believe in Cupid's magical powers.
09/25/08
More effective as a piece of house porn than cinematic drama...
09/25/08
Close-ups were invented for Lane's rare beauty, inside and out. We feel that it is her spirit as an actress and a character illuminating this story.
09/25/08
...a goopy, disjointed weepie elevated ever so slightly by the reteaming of "Unfaithful" costars Gere and Lane.
09/25/08
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