His father ( Sam Shepard) is centered and supportive. He's a local kid who works at the sawmill but is smart and poetic. She's a rich kid, summering at the family's mansion in North Carolina. The performances are suited to the material, respecting the passion at the beginning and the sentiment at the end, but not pushing too hard there is even a time when young Noah tells Allie, "I don't see how it's gonna work," and means it, and a time when Allie gets engaged to another man. As young people, by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. As old people they're played by Gena Rowlands and James Garner. The lovers are named Allie Nelson and Noah Calhoun, known as Duke. In life it is more likely to be pain, drugs, regret and despair. The reason we cried during " Terms of Endearment" was not because the mother was dying, but because she was given the opportunity for a dignified and lucid parting with her children. "The Notebook" is a sentimental fantasy, but such fantasies are not harmful we tell ourselves stories every day, to make life more bearable. But when the curtain comes down, there is never another act and the play is over. For a time, in the earlier stages of the disease, it does. We all wish Alzheimer's could permit such moments.
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