Show all (5)Adrienne Willis, a woman with her life in chaos, retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her--a wayward husband who has asked to come home and a teenaged daughter who resents her every decision. Almost as soon as Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, a major storm is forecast and Dr. Paul Flanner arrives. The only gues
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Whoever thought of putting Diane Lane and Richard Gere together in a movie at this point in their careers is a genius.
Their pairing in "Nights in Rodanthe" is one of the best in a long while. They just look right together, like they belong with each other. It seems impossible that they would not fall in love.
Unfortunately, the story of "Nights in Rodanthe" does not quite do them justice. It is based on a book by Nicholas Sparks, and his books have a sameness to them, a simplicity of story and that one shared plot twist.
The story is evident from the moment the characters are introduced. Lane stars as a woman who is seriously thinking of allowing the husband who abandoned her for another woman to come back to her. While pondering this move, she agrees to look after a bizarrely designed bed-and-breakfast-and-dinner on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The B&B&D has only one guest, a wealthy and fabulously handsome doctor played by Gere. He is troubled because a patient died when he was performin (Full review)