It's hard not to admire its unabashed sentimentality, but The Notebook is too clumsily manipulative to rise above its melodramatic clichés.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Nick Cassavetes -
Producer -
Mark Johnson , Lynn Harris -
Screenwriter -
Nick Cassavetes , Jeremy Leven , Nicholas Sparks , Jan Sardi -
Distributor -
New Line Cinema -
Production Co -
New Line Cinema , Avery Pix -
Rating -
PG-13 (Some Sexuality) -
Genre -
Romance , Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Jun 25, 2004, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Mar 18, 2013 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$81.0M -
Runtime -
2h 4m -
Sound Mix -
Surround , Dolby SRD , DTS , SDDS -
Aspect Ratio -
Scope (2.35:1)