The Notebook

“Behind every great love is a great story.”

Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) returns to his small South Carolina town and encounters Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) at a summer carnival. They fall into an urgent, all-consuming romance that her mother (Joan Allen) moves to destroy. Years later, an elderly man reads their story aloud to a woman in a nursing home, though the future they shared has been fractured by choices neither of them fully controls.