Nights in Rodanthe (DVD, 2009)

Features Acotrs: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, James Franco,Christopher Meloni,Viola Davis,Linda Molloy & Mae Whitman
Running Time:97 Min.
Rating:PG-13

At the point of departure, we're introduced to Adrienne Willis (Lane), a married woman in the midst of a meltdown. We learn that just in the past few months, her father has died, her husband (Christopher Meloni) has dumped her, and her spoiled-rotten teenager (Mae Whitman) has become impossible to live with. Luckily, Adrienne's best friend, Jean (Viola Davis), owns an oceanfront bed and breakfast on Hatteras Island and needs someone to run the place while she's away on business.

Turns out the cozy getaway is only guest is a surgeon who'll be arriving simultaneously for a four-night stay. Dr. Paul Flanner (Gere) has his own emotional baggage, being inconsolable ever since a patient (Linda Molloy) accidentally died on the operating table. He also has some issues to work out with the 28 year-old son (James Franco) he hasn't spoken to in a year.

What happens when two troubled souls in search of a little solitude find a soul mate instead of isolation? This is Paul and Adrienne's plight as they fall in love at first sight and start whispering sweet nothings in each other's ears while sharing the proverbial candlelit meals and long walks along the shore.


This movie reunites Richard Gere and Diane Lane who first appeared opposite each other in The Cotton Club (1984), and then again in Unfaithful (2002). it doesn't look time has aged either of these matinee idols much, or diminished their ability to generate chemistry.Hope this helps you decide.Thanks for reading! :)

Richard Gere and Diane Lane are reunited in 2008 after starring in the movie "Unfaithful" in 2002 in this Nicholas Sparks tale. Similar to "The Notebook" and "A Walk to Remember," we can expect some tragedy. And we get it.

Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane) is estranged from her husband Jack (Christopher Meloni) and is single-parenting two children Amanda and Danny. While the two children are in Orlando with their father, she volunteers to house-sit a beach mansion owned by her best friend Jean (Viola Davis) on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in a town called Rodanthe. Gorgeously photographed in every frame, this movie circles this gorgeous hideaway for us to see in all its glory.

And then arrives the only guest for a four day stay; Dr. Paul Flanner (Richard Gere) is the mysterious guest. We soon learn that he is there to meet the family of a patient who died in his Operating Room to help them in their grief but he treads carefully because they are sueing him. Inevitably, the only two people in the home have conversations and do bond, but they don't become intimate until after a hurricane threatens their survival.

Adrienne and Paul's love is interrupted when she must return to her home, and he is on his way to visit his son Mark, also a doctor, in Ecuador. But they continue to write, and absence makes the hearts of both grow even fonder.

From here you are on your own.

This movie won no awards but it attracts anyone who knows who Nicholas Sparks is. And it delivers in Sparks' fashion. You will not be disappointed in any way.

Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane), a woman with her life in chaos, retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend’s inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her—a wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teenaged daughter who resents her every decision. Almost as soon as Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, a major storm is forecast and Dr. Paul Flanner (Richard Gere) arrives. The only guest at the inn, Flanner is not on a weekend escape but rather is there to face his own crisis of conscience. Now, with the storm closing in, the two turn to each other for comfort and, in one magical weekend, set in motion a life-changing romance that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.

Best movie I've seen in a long time. Diane Lane and Richard Gere work so good together in a film. Very moving and do get the tissue box out you're gonna need them.. So glad I purchased this film....
{Mrs puman}

The basic premiss for Nights in Rodanthe, that it is never too late to find true love, is wonderful and especially necessary for older adults. The one great line in the movie is "Who or what makes YOU feel safe?" This is a GREAT question for all of those who have "settled" for whatever was available in love and lived to regret it (roughly half the population), instead of really falling in love with a person or loving ourselves enough NEVER to "settle" for what was available rather than someone we could love for a lifetime.

Unfortunately, the book was a poor structure upon which to write the screenplay, or the screenplay made a mess out of the story, or the screenplay was written about 40-50 somethings by a 20 year old. I am betting the problem is a VERY immature or lazy screenwriter coupled with Nicolas Sparks' "formulas" for his novels wearing VERY thin. This story comes up with more poor plot contrivances than I have ever seen in a single awful novel or movie. They are contrived to the point where they just don't work on any level at all and RUIN the film.

The location is beautiful (Seashore in South Carolina), the two characters played by Gere and Lane, have a pleasant chemistry and do a credible job with the poor story lines they act out in the film. They naturally work together comortably and they photograph beautifully. However, the clearly contrived storyline gets in the way of a resonable acting job and two beutiful people, completely overshadowing their work. Poorly constructed pieces to the screenplay include a stupid (and wholly unecessary) drunk scene, Lane's out of place and overly intuitive lecture to Gere on how to show empathy and caring, an out of place and very gruff move to the kitchen to eat dinner "so he would not be eating alone for dinner" on night one of his stay. A confrontation between the dead woman's husband and her doctor (Gere) over a malpractice lawsuit that was poorly written, woodenly acted out and totally stupid...yada, yada, yada....

PLEASE - Slow down Mr. Sparks and put some thought and great dialogue into your work, instead of constantly going for the cheap contrivance in your plot lines. If it takes more than a month to write a novel LET IT! Hollywood, stop turning mature love stories into just another ball of Valentine's Day schmaltz for 20 somethings. There are a lot of older folks who really love a good redemption through love story written for people with some life experience, maturity and the belief that love can actually happen to us no0 matter where you are in life!

With chaos tearing her family apart, Adrienne Willis takes a weekend job at her friend's coastal North Carolina Inn -- but when a hurricane hits and strands the only guest Flanner, Adrienne's life changes forever. As the storm rages outside, Adrienne connects with Flanner, who came to the retreat to escape a personal crisis. Scott Glenn co-stars in this intimate drama based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks.

Diane Lane, Richard Gere, James Franco, Scott Glenn