Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

Director:

George C. Wolfe

Writers (WGA):

Ann Peacock (screenplay) and
John Romano (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

26 September 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

It's never too late for a second chance

Plot:

A doctor who is traveling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.

Plot Keywords:

Inn | North Carolina | Unhappy Marriage | Beach | Place Name In Title

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Nov. 13

12:15 PM

HBO

Cast

Diane Lane	...	Adrienne Willis
Richard Gere	...	Dr. Paul Flanner
Christopher Meloni	...	Jack Willis
Viola Davis	...	Jean
Becky Ann Baker	...	Dot
Scott Glenn	...	Robert Torrelson
Linda Molloy	...	Jill Torrelson
Pablo Schreiber	...	Charlie Torrelson
Mae Whitman	...	Amanda Willis
Charlie Tahan	...	Danny Willis
Carolyn McCormick	...	Jenny Flanner
Ted Manson	...	Old Gus
Ato Essandoh	...	Jean's Lover
Terri Denise Johnson	...	Medical Resident
Jessica Lucas	...	Admiring Nurse

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sensuality.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA | Australia

Language:

Spanish | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44032) | Australia:PG | UK:PG | Ireland:PG | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | Germany:6 | Chile:TE | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | South Africa:10M | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:PG | Sweden:7 | Hong Kong:IIA | Peru:PT | Finland:K-7 | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Carolina Beach, North Carolina, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The house in which the movie is set is a vacation rental property, not a bed & breakfast, and is named "Serendipity".

Goofs:

Errors in geography: In the opening sequence Richard Gere's character is shown driving north on Route 12, apparently toward Rodanthe from Raleigh. (The ocean is to his right.) And he's seen making a ferry crossing, later discussed in the dialogue, which would have been the Ocracoke-Hatteras Island ferry, south of Rodanthe. But in the same early sequence, he's seen crossing the Herbert C. Bonner bridge at Oregon Inlet, which is actually north of Rodanthe, connecting Bodie Island and Hatteras Island. In fact, the driving route between Raleigh and Rodanthe would almost certainly not include any ferry crossings, which are considerably further south than the Raleigh-Rodanthe route, and would approach Rodanthe from the north.

Quotes:

Adrienne Willis: When Jack left me, it wasn't just our marriage ending. It was the loss of all the hopes that I'd had for the future. I tried to move on, but the world didn't seem that interested in me anymore. Then you came along, and helped me believe in myself again.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "At the Movies: (2008-11-05)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)

All the parts but not sum of the whole

I personally think this is the most difficult genre to pull off - romance has to create some magical reality, and some plausibility: we have to believe it could , would happen to them and to us.

Nights partially succeeds in creating some atmosphere and some nice scenes but fails to ignite into magical.

Instead what we get is just too rushed and uses too many clichés - every scene feels like it came from somewhere else - and the sparks are somehow not fireworks but squibs.

It cannot decide whether to be gentle and meditative and mature, or to be unabashedly full-on.

All in all it will be a box office winner given the stars and the lack of other material of its kind - but really this is no classic.