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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
For 94 minutes women (at least middle-aged women) can drink in Gere and men (of all ages) can gaze at Lane (whose beauty makes me gasp for air). What's wrong with that?
09/25/08
Fans of weepy romances will dig it; the rest of us would prefer a battle with mutant, killer rats.
09/25/08
Nights in Rodanthe, the latest screen adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks story, is a picture smothered in syrupy excess.
09/25/08
Rodanthe is a reliably steamy stormy sultry story about Inner Change at the Outer Banks where strangers become intimates.
09/25/08
Top CriticKept animated by the superior work of the cast, who take the surface mentality of the source material and make it a deeply felt, agreeably tragic romantic experience. Rodanthe is obvious, but it's very effective.
09/25/08
One of this year's most stirring romances, adroitly manipulative, yes, but never condescending.
09/25/08
The 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
Top CriticThere's nothing like a good tearjerker. Unfortunately, Nights in Rodanthe isn't a good tearjerker, although the characters on-screen shed tears and the movie is pretty jerky.
09/25/08
Top CriticNights in Rodanthe is typical Nicholas Sparks fare that has been turned into a tasteful melodrama courtesy of the easy chemistry between its two leads and a generally restrained touch from Tony-winning director George C. Wolfe in his feature debut.
09/25/08
Top CriticWeepy romance is tame but may not interest teens.
09/25/08
Until movie theaters offer the same comforting, carefree mindset as sand and surf, beach reading won't truly translate to the big screen.
09/25/08
Whiffs on both sentiment and misery. It may be that there's no spark here because there's too much Sparks here.
09/25/08
Redolent of the schmaltziest weepies of a half-century or more ago...strong evidence for the proposition that Nicholas Sparks must have been Fannie Hurst in an earlier life.
09/25/08
Director George C. Wolfe's overly-crafted adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel is a bit much. But the two leads are so charismatic that they manage to sell the material far more than it deserves.
09/25/08
There's little room for genuine emotion in this turgid romantic fantasy adapted from a novel by slop-meister Nicholas Sparks.
09/25/08
A ten hanky movie that ends up being just enough to make a nice noose for yourself after sitting through such an inexcusably downer ending.
09/24/08
By no fault of Lane and Gere's, Nights in Rodanthe turns out to be an evening of disappointment at the movies.
09/24/08
The movie version of Nights begins with such promise before it drowns in the romance novelist's syrupy sentimentality.
09/24/08
A flawed but occasionally affecting film.
09/24/08
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