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Trailer Review: Nights in Rodanthe

Posted by Paul Clark


Sometimes in my capacity as Screengrab’s resident trailer watcher, I’m faced with movies that just weren’t made for me, like chintzy-looking family movies or the latest installment in the deathless High School Musical franchise. And while I’m often game for a really good romantic melodrama, film adaptations of the novels of Nicholas Sparks just aren’t my thing. And I’ve got to say, Nights in Rodanthe looks like more of the same- picturesque locations, an idealized courtship between two attractive stars, and plenty of greeting-card-worthy sentiment. But while I have no interest in the movie, I nonetheless have to find a way to sit through a 2 ½-minute trailer without nodding off. So I glom onto the re-teaming of Diane Lane and Richard Gere and imagine Nights in Rodanthe as a prequel to Unfaithful, in which we witness the wellspring of the marriage that would end up with Lane cheating on Gere with super-hunky French bookseller Olivier Martinez. I highly doubt this was the intention of the filmmakers, but if you’re one of the people who isn’t on this movie’s wavelength, thinking about it this way will certainly make the trailer more interesting. It certainly did for me.


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