Dear Readers,
Are you fans of Richard Gere and Diane Lane, breathtaking coastal scenes, a Nicholas Sparks's love story? Then NIGHTS IN RODANTHE is your kind of movie. I would actually call this movie a Gothic tale because most of the drama takes place in a huge, mansion turned "bed and breakfast" that sits on the beaches of North Carolina.
I liked the movie a lot but when it ended, I felt as though there needed to be something more, something that maybe I had missed, something beyond the Sparks's formula of lovers denied lasting bliss because of a cruel twist of fate. All during NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, I pretty much knew what the next scenes would be and how the plot would unfold - there are really no surprises.
Could be this is OK? Maybe!
As movie-goers, maybe some of us want two hours of escape into watching beautiful people making beautiful love in a beautiful mansion during a dangerous storm. Maybe we desire to feel this intense passion to cover the immensity of the storms raging inside our own worlds - to let beauty and drama carry us beyond the challenging demands of everyday life ... a chance to go beyond as Henry David Thoreau wrote, our lives of "quiet desperation."
Anyway, I am probably making too much of this, after all like "Romeo and Juliet", this is only a story - not Shakespeare but Sparks and if you are a follower of this prolific writer, than you will relish this story on the big screen.
Information about NIGHTS IN RODANTHE on the Richard Sparks website shows the following: "Warner Bros. Picture Presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Di Novi Pictures Production: the romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe, starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, Christopher Meloni and Viola Davis.
Directed by George C. Wolfe from a screenplay by Ann Peacock and John Romano and based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, the film is produced by Denise Di Novi. Doug Claybourne, Alison Greenspan, Dana Goldberg and Bruce Berman are the executive producers.
The creative team includes director of photography Affonso Beato, production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein and editor Brian A. Kates. Music is by Jeanine Tesori."
If you go see this movie or have already seen it, let me know what you think about this romantic drama, NIGHT IN RODANTHE.
Love and light,
Amber Silverstar
