The Notebook

This movie starts off with a older gentle man who lives in a nursing home reading a story to a older lady about 2 young loves named Noah and Allie. The story takes place in Seabrook, South Carolina in the 1940's. Noah and Allie meet at the local carnival and Noah immeditley takes a liking to Allie. However Allie rejects his advances. But after being set up on a double date by their best friends who are dating Allie begins to recipcate Noah's feelings. They are eventually inseperable and spend every waking moment together.

Allie's parents are very wealthy and Noah is lucky to make .10 an hour, and Allie's parents do not approve of their relationship, and after a fight with her parents in which Noah overhears Allie's mom calling him Trash and that he is not good enough for her he decides to make a rash decision and break up with her, which he immeditley regrets. But before they get a chance to make up Allie's parents decide to move back home to keep them apart. (They were only in Seabrook for the Summer). Noah writes Allie a letter everyday for year in which he apologizes to Allie for breaking up with her, but they all go unresponded but we learn that it was due to her mother hiding her letters from her. In his last leter he decides to bid her farewell and move on with his life and he and his best friend decide to move to Alanta.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor Noah and Finn (his best friend) enlist in the army and fight in World War II where eventually Finn is killed. Meanwhile Allie enrolls in collge and volunteers as a nurses aid where she helps men who are revovering from the war. There she meets the Lon Hammond who is handsome, charming, and comes from a wealthy family and begin dating and eventually engaged much to her family joy.

Noah returns to Seabrook after the war where he learns that his father sold his house so Noah could purchase the Windsor Plantation (an old abandonded house that Noah dreamed of restoring and living in with Allie).

While in town to present his restoration plans for the house he spots Allie among the crowd but looses her in the crowd. He spots her through a resturant window where he sees her kissing Lon and is heartbroken again. But he feels that somehow if he restores the house Allie will come back to him. After he finishes the house the newpaper interviews him and puts his picture in the paper, and he decides to put it up for sale. However when it came down to it he can't find it in his heart to part with it.

While trying on her wedding dress for family she comes across Noah's picture in the paper and decides to visit him. Upon returning to the plantation she is nervous and drives into Noah fence and he invites her in where they have dinner and talk and she makes it known that she is engaged. He invites her back tomorrow morning for a surprise. He takes her for a boat ride on the lake.

It then proceeds to rain where she says that it wasn't over for her and that waited for him and that now it is too late. Noah tells her that he wrote her everyday for year and that it still isn't over. He pulls her into a kiss and they go back to the house where they end up making love.

After a few days of passion Allie'r mother shows up at the plantation where she see's Allie pretty much naked and tells her that Lon is in town. She tells her to get dressed because she wants to show her something. Her and Allie drive to a lumberyard where he mother tells her that she also had a summer romance and that she still watches her ex-lover somtimes. They drive back to Noah's house, and he is sitting on the porch, Allie's mom hands her the letters that Noah had written, saying that she hopes Allie makes the right choice. She drives away and Allie goes to sit on the porch with Noah. She explains how Lon is in town and how the past few days had been wonderful, but very irresponsible. Noah is furious, accusing her of only loving Lon for his money, and says that if she leaves, he will hate her forever. She storms toward her car, and Noah yells after her that she's bored with her life, and if she wasn't she wouldn't have come. She turns around and yells back that they wouldn't last because it had only been 3 days and they were already arguing. He begs her to stay with him, saying that he knows they fight and is willing to work it out every day if that's what it takes. He says that he's not afraid to hurt her feelings because that's what they do; they fight and make up. He tells her that if she really wants to be with Lon, then she should go, because he lost her once and could do it again. Confused, Allie drives off.

Crying and distraught Allie pulls over and reads one of the letters...which is his goodbye letter. Back at the hotel where Lon is staying she comes clean as too what happened. He is angry but says that he can either kill Noah, beat him up, or leave her, but says that neither of those are good because neither of them give her her and that inspite of this he still loves her and wants to work it out. But he doesn't want to have to convince her that he is the one she should be with. She says that he knows who she should be with.

Then it switches over to Noah waking up to a car approaching and he hears a car door shut...He goes out to his front porch where he sees Allie with her luggage, she drops them a runs into his arms.

It then switches back to the elderly man and woman, and the woman realizes that she is Allie and that the man is Noah. She asks how long she has until she looses her memory again. They dance and while dancing she relapes and she starts freaking out as she believes the man is an intruder and the older Allie has to recieve a shot to calm her down. Noah is distraught and cries.

Back in his room he is looking through the book he was reading to Allie where it says
"Read this to me and I will come back to you everytime"

The next morning Noah is rushed to emergency when a nurse finds him in critical condition, but survives. He sneaks into Allie's room where she asks himif their love is stong enough to take them both away together. Noah says that their love is stong enough to do anything.

The next morning a nurse comes into check on Allie and finds both Allie and Noah holding hands having peacefully died in their sleep.


This movie is so sweet!! I loved it Ryan Gossling, and Rachel McAdams who played Noah and Allie had such great chemistry together.

Rated PG-13

50 First Dates

This movie takes place in Hawaii. Henry Roth is portayed as a womanizing-fufill their "vacation fling fantasy" then they leave no strings attached. He is a marine life veterinarian.

One day in the local cafe called the "Huki Lau Cafe" Henry meets a local art teacher named Lucy Whitmore. They hit it off and agree to meet the next day at the cafe. However the next day when they meet Lucy claims she had never even met him. Confused the cafe owner who is a good friend of Lucy's and Lucy's late mother tells Henry that Lucy was in a severe car crash a year ago and suffered a brain injury which causes her not to retain any new memories and Lucy believes that it is the same day every day (which happens to be her fathers birthday) and does the same routine everyday her memory is wiped clean when she sleeps. In a montage it shows what her father Marlin and her brother Doug go through every night to "proctect" her. (such as rewrapping Marlin's birthday present from Lucy, they have the several newspapers from the day of her accident, re-baking the birthday cake, etc..)

Determined not to let memory loss keep Lucy from falling in love with him, Henry devises several "ways" to meet Lucy and this is shown to be somewhat sucessful. One day Lucy is at the Huki Lau cafe (as she always is) she sees a poiceman writing her a ticket for expired tabs and she argues that is the day she thinks it is (which is the day of the accident) When she grabs a current newpaper from a bystander to "show" the policeman that it's day she is is shocked and confused by the date on the newpaper and rushes home.

Once at home Marlin shows Lucy everything that Doug and him do every night. Upset and needing answers Lucy, Henry, Marlin, and Doug drive out to talk to the doctor that treated her after the accident where Lucy finally comes to the realization that she's probably not going to get better but is comforted by her father, Henry, and Dougs support.

Henry decides that it's better to tell the truth to Lucy each day about her memory loss than hide it from her and decides to make a video tape for Lucy for her to watch each day with events that she can't remember. Henry and Lucy start falling in love.

One morning after having slept together Lucy wakes up and screams because she doesn't know who Henry is and confused. A few minutes later it is shown Doug, Marlin, Henry, and Dr. Keats chatting about Henry's plan to go out to sea to do some research that had taken a couple of years to prepare for. Henry says that he has decided not to go because he feels Lucy needs him. Lucy in the other room (appearently had been watching the video) is shown overhearing the conversation and feels guilty that Henry wants to give up on his dream.

Later that day Lucy meets Henry at the aquarium where Henry works and she tell him that she can't be the reason he's going to give up his dream and breaks up with him and tells him that she is going to destroy all evidence of him and their relationship.

Now out of Lucy's life Henry prepares for his trip the day of depture Marlin gives Henry a CD of beach boys songs. Hearing a particular song he remembers something that Marlin had said earlier that she sings this particular song on days that she "meets" Henry. It is implied that maybe Lucy does remember him after all and rushes back home to her. At the hospital where Lucy had checked herself in (as to not be a burden to her dad and brother anymore) Henry asks Lucy if she remembers him at all, she says no, but shows him a room with a bunch of her paintings and there are several pictures of him, where she explains that she has been dreaming about him.

This movie is cute and I love Drew Barrymoore and Adam Sandler's chemistry! There are some parts that are cheesy parts to this movie but it is so cute.

Rated PG-13

New Moon

I still haven't read these books. But I've loved the movies. I caught the "Twilight Bug"

It starts out with Bella dreaming of herself as an old woman and Edward still young as he stopped aging at the age of 17. Bella wakes up scared about growing older, espcially since it's her 18th birthday and she's now offically "older" than her boyfriend. Despite her lack of enthusiasm about her birthdays, Edward's adoptive family still throws Bella a birthday party. While unwrapping a gift, Bella gets a paper cut, causing Edward's brother, Jasper, to become overwhelmed by her blood's scent and attempt to kill her. Realizing the danger that he and his family pose to Bella, Edward ends their relationship and Edward and his family leaves.

Edward's harsh and abrupt departure from Forks leaves Bella heartbroken and depressed for months. Only, when Bella's father says he doesn't know how to help her and decides to send her to live with her mother does Bella agrees to spend time with her friends. After hanging out with her friend Jessica, Bella sees a group of men on motorcycles. This reminds her of when Edward previously rescued her from an assault, and she sees his image warning her to stay away. Bella discovers that thrill-seeking activities evoke Edward's voice and image. She is also comforted by Jacob Black. When Jacob suddenly begins avoiding her, Bella discovers Jacob has become a werewolf, an age-old enemy of vampires. Jacob's pack members are on constant patrol for Victoria, a vampire searching to kill Bella due to the death of her mate, leaving Jacob little time to spend with her.

Due to a series of miscommunications, Edward believes Bella has killed herself. Distraught over her supposed suicide, Edward flees to Italy to provoke the Volturi, a powerful vampire coven capable of killing him, by exposing himself in the sunlight. Alice, Edward's sister, and Bella rush to Italy to save Edward, and arrive just in time to stop him. However, the Volturi determine that Bella, a human who knows that vampires exist, must either be killed or transformed into a vampire herself. Alice stops them from killing her by saying that Bella will be turned into a vampire even if she needs to do it herself. Returning to Forks, Edward tells Bella that he always loved her and only left to protect her. She forgives him, and the Cullens vote in favor of Bella being transformed into a vampire, to Edward's dismay. However, Jacob reminds Edward of the treaty the Cullens made with the Quileute tribe: they will not attack each other, as long as the Cullens do not bite any humans. The movie concludes with Edward telling Bella that he will change her into a vampire if she marries him first.