The Notebook

...weeper that makes The Notebook resemble an episode of How I Met Your Mother . Based on Jodi Picoult's bestseller, the film reveals the private agonies of the Fitzgerald family, in particular of teenage daughter Kate (Sofia...

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...of family love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing. Directed by Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook"), "My Sister's Keeper" stars Cameron Diaz, Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin, Academy Award® nominee Alec...

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...start to finish. But it has ambitions beyond mere ghoulish mawkishness. The director, Nick Cassavetes, has in the past, in movies like "The Notebook" and "John Q," attempted a kind of honest manipulation, wringing outsize waves of emotion out...

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...Diaz). Scripted by Cassavetes and Jeremy Leven (also "The Notebook"), the film unfolds in a series of chronologically jumbled shards, with frequent, often differently voiced voice-overs and features a scrapbook instead of a notebook. In spite...

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...director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) demanded that she go bald for the part. He then auditioned Vassilieva, who was more than happy to make the sacrifice. On Valentine's Day, Vassilieva marched right into a salon and had her waist-length...

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...cross my mind." What did was the chance to work with director Nick Cassavetes, whose "The Notebook" was such an emotional hit a few years ago, and Abigail Breslin, the amazing 12-year-old from "Little Miss Sunshine." Both were at the...

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