Movie Review: Nights in Rodanthe - Page 2

Of course, the relationship eventually hits a rough patch as the two argue about whose life is worse and the wrong choices they have made. Adrienne runs out, the storm nears and the good doctor goes to the rescue.

Fortunately, he resists yelling, “Yo, Adrienne,” to win her back. Instead, he tells her, “Any man is a fool who doesn’t know how lucky he is to have you.”

The healing process begins. They shed a few tears (though it seems incredibly difficult to squeeze that one drop out of Gere), we shed a few tears. A better title for this movie would have been The Notebook for Grownups.

After returning to their families (Flanner reunites with his estranged son, played by James Franco), the couple find strength and solitude in the love letters they write each other. Didn’t they know about e-mail? Just think what they would have saved on postage.

At a jam-packed theater on September 16 in Westminster, Colorado, where they had to turn people away from a sneak preview, the audience was more than 80 percent women. If most of them were there for a good cry, they got it. But what about the ones breathlessly waiting for a hot summer night between the two hotties? Was it in the cards?

In a recent interview with Glamour magazine, Lane might have tipped her hand.

Sharing the September cover with Rachel Bilson and Ali Larter as part of a “Gorgeous at any age” feature, Lane is still “red-hot at 43,” but raises some eyebrows when discussing the sex factor in her film roles:

“It makes me very uncomfortable…. I tell my daughters, ‘That’s why they call it work, because it’s not what you’d prefer to do with your free time….’ I don’t want any more sex scenes on-screen. I’m done.”

So men now have a reason to be considered the "weaker sex." Go ahead, guys, break out the hankies for this one. Lane just gave all of us something to cry about.

Nights in Rodanthe
Running time: 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Rated: PG-13, some sensuality.
Release date: September 26, 2008.
Leading roles:: Richard Gere (Dr. Paul Flanner), Diane Lane (Adrienne Willis).
Also appearing: Scott Glenn (Robert Torrelson), Christopher Meloni (Jack Willis), Viola Davis (Jean).
Director: George C. Wolfe makes his feature film debut, adding to an impressive list of credits in a theatrical career as a writer, director and producer.

Upcoming TV appearances
•Lane, on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Monday, September 22.
•Lane, on Live with Regis and Kelly on Tuesday, September 23.
•Gere, on Live with Regis and Kelly on Wednesday, September 24.
•Gere and Lane, on The Bonnie Hunt Show on Thursday, Sept. 23.

What do you think? Is Diane Lane, as Glamour says, still red-hot at 43? What’s her best film since Unfaithful?
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Go here to see a trailer for Nights in Rodanthe.

Go here to read Diane Lane’s interview in the September issue of Glamour.

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