Indoors, there is elegant if unconvincing emotional drama you can see coming from half a mile down the beach, with very little com to lighten the rom.
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10/10/08
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:10-10-2008
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
Reviews for Nights in Rodanthe
Top CriticJust about provides the goods as a romantic weepie but not the best Sparks adaptation.
10/10/08
Top CriticLane and Gear ensure that Nights in Rodanthe is never less than watchable, but it's scuppered by an overly sentimental script and fails to deliver the required emotional punch.
10/10/08
If the story is a dreary one, it is elevated by the star brio of Gere and Lane.
10/18/08
Broadway director George C Wolfe’s inexperience with visual storytelling makes everything go with a clunk. Shame.
10/10/08
Top CriticAs homespun as a crocheted teacosy; as folksy as an heirloom patchwork quilt and as manufactured as reproduction Shaker furniture – that’s Nights in Rodanthe.
10/10/08
Top CriticThere is nothing new here – but taking the film on face value, everything that needs to be done right is spot on.
10/10/08
It’s like The Bridges Of Madison County with more shouting, only not nearly as good. No surprises whatsoever, but nice scenery, attractive stars and another credible, affecting performance from Lane that hoiks it up an extra star.
10/10/08
Top CriticThe word formulaic doesn’t quite cover it, but our two leads just about hold their heads above a tidal surge of sappy plotting, contrived dialogue and choppy editing.
10/10/08
This involving movie ultimately succumbs to a severe case of the weepies, as we know it must
10/05/08
It ticks the right boxes to be a hit - the tear jerking aspect being key to the word of mouth - but it's a movie that rarely breaks out of it's average confines.
10/10/08
I'd hoped the lathered-up romanticism of Nights in Rodanthe would stop me from thinking about the awfulness of what's going on in the world. It didn't; it compounded it.
10/10/08
Top CriticRichard Gere's latest is the sort of weepy that gets shown on daytime TV in between the over-50s life insurance ads.
10/09/08
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10/18/08
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04/23/09
Many critics will no doubt tar this film with the dreaded "Lifetime movie" epithet, but I'd venture a bit further -- Nights in Rodanthe is the world's longest General Foods International Coffee commercial.
09/24/08
perfectly calibrated to jerk tears with the precision of the atomic clock at the U.S. Naval Observatory, and with the irresistible insistence of an industrial grade milking machine
09/28/08
This is one of those unapologetic, tear-jerking romances. There's nothing really wrong with that, but it occasionally lays things on a little thick when it should have been holding back.
10/06/08
Most of the movie was cloying. All of it was predictable.
11/05/08
'Nights in Rodanthe' serves up too much manipulated sentimentality for my taste, even though I admit being incurably romantic most of the time.
09/27/08
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