"You Can't Sit More Than Two in a Chair Noah!"

Another movie lost in the collection with my inability to alphabetize and read. The Notebook is probably one of the more recent and most often referenced love story in America. My brother and his now wife once went as Noah and Allie for Halloween because they feel that this story is their love story- minus the actual plot of the film because none of these things happened to them in real life and they are not old now. But they did get married- click here if you want to read about those amazing nuptials. 

Now this movie has all of the cliche things you would expect from a movie about love and more love. How many of y'all ever danced to no music? It is quite romantic if I do say so myself. One time in college I was lucky enough to have one of those moments where someone sweeps you off your feet and dances with you when there is no sound to be heard. It is a silly as you would imagine :)

Well there is so much kissing in this movie that I almost cannot watch it with anyone else. Remember in A Philadelphia Story when I was commenting on old time moving kissing looking so painful? The Notebook redeems Hollywood 64 years later with the kissing in this movie. It does not look as painful and it looks like actual kissing. But for real- so much kissing. 

So this story is a retelling of a love between a wealthy, young woman vacationing in a coastal town and her hard working, saw mill employee townie. This movie has a bit of a twist as we are watching the story being retold by Noah himself. The end of this movie is where the water works start flowing and I will not ruin it if you are one of the 15 people in the world who have not heard already how it ends. But it is so sweet that you will at least get a little verklempt if you have a heart. 

The casting in this movie is just perfect too. The actors that play in these starring and supporting roles make this story more wonderful. It helps that Rachel McAdams (Allie) and Ryan Gosling (Noah) had a real life romance. They probably were not acting too hard about their chemistry that was so sweet and angry at the same time. There is another love interest in this film too- James Marsden. He plays Lon Hammond and he is so sweet and absolutely dreamy with those blue eyes that viewers will immediately like him. I am sure that was purposeful for the plot but it makes me sad that his minutes in the film are small in number. Overall this film is a great story put to screen- Nicholas Sparks knew what he was doing when he put his spin on this love story. He tied together all these lovely moments and plot lines to make sure an enjoyable and heart warming story that renews your faith in true love forever. 

RAs will probably have no trouble getting residents excited to watch this film. But to add a program in I would focus on the part where Noah wrote to Allie for an entire year after she left that summer. It wasn't over for him but Allie did not get any of his letters. As a floor I would spend some time writing letters to loved ones. Not just romantic loved ones, but to anyone that your residents feel that they should appreciate. Everyone loves getting snail mail and the only cost to this program would be the stamps to send out these letters once your floor has finished. Good old fashioned love letters through the mail are pure gold, pure gold.