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Ed Grady Harry as Harry. Geoffrey Knight Barker as Barker. Kevin Connolly Fin as Fin. Michael D. Fuller Seabrook Boy as Seabrook Boy. Nick Cassavetes. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story to an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss.

In the late s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend.

Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes letters A Year to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital.

After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it.

When Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home.

Behind every great love is a great story. Rated PG for some sexuality. Ryan decided to go method for his role as Noah and spent two months doing Noah things, like living in Charleston, South Carolina and building furniture. It was nice the set designer featured some of his hard work in the film. Rachel did the same and took etiquette and took ballet classes for the film. Kobe Bryant once gifted his wife a dress from the film for Valentine's Day.

In at the late basketball player's memorial, his wife Vanessa Bryant recalled him hunting down the blue dress Rachel McAdams wore in the iconic kiss scene.

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Martha Sorren. Even die-hard fans of "The Notebook" may not know everything about the film. The movie is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, and he based the story on a real couple. Ryan Gosling said he was cast because the director thought he wasn't handsome. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

Allie and Noah are based on a real couple. Britney Spears auditioned to play Allie, and so did a few other notable stars. Gosling didn't always get along with McAdams. McAdams did a lot of training for her role. Gosling received specific carpentry training for Noah as well, and he ended up making some furniture pieces for the set.

Noah was supposed to have brown eyes, so Gosling wore colored contacts. Allie has a "significantly bigger" role in the movie than she did in the book, according to McAdams. A nationwide search was conducted to find the right actress to play Allie. On casting her, Cassavetes said: "When Rachel McAdams came in and read, it was apparent that she was the one. She and Ryan had great chemistry between them.

I read the script and went into the audition just two days later. It was a good way to do it, because I was very full of the story. Really, Allie drives the movie.

It's her movie and we're in it. It all kind of depended on an actress. McAdams spent time in Charleston before filming to familiarize herself with the surroundings, and took ballet and etiquette classes. She had a dialect coach to learn the southern accent. The Notebook was filmed almost entirely on location in South Carolina, in late and early Much of the film's plot takes place in and around Seabrook Island, an actual town which is one of the South Carolina "sea islands.

However, none of the filming took place in the Seabrook area. The house that Noah is seen fixing up is a private residence at Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, which is another "sea island" locality situated 10 miles closer to Charleston. The house was not actually in a dilapidated state at any time, but it was made to look that way by special effects in the first half of the film. Contrary to the suggestion in the film's dialogue, neither the house nor the Seabrook area was home to South Carolina Revolutionary hero Francis Marion, whose plantation was actually located some distance northwest of Charleston.

The Boone Hall Plantation served as Allie's summer house. Many of the scenes set in Seabrook were filmed in the town of Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston. Others were filmed in Charleston and in Edisto Island. The lake scenes were filmed at Cypress Gardens in Moncks Corner, South Carolina with trained birds that were brought in from elsewhere. The college depicted briefly in the film is identified in the film as Sarah Lawrence College, but the campus that is seen is actually the College of Charleston.

It is the 14th highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time. The performances of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, as well as their on-screen chemistry, were particularly praised by most film critics. The Notebook received a mixed reaction from film critics.