That’s my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that’s where my home is.
Duke
- Director
- Nick Cassavetes
- Cast
- Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, James Garner, James Marsden, Sam Shepard
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Genres
- romance film, drama film, coming-of-age film
- Country
- United States
Facts: Wikidata (CC0), as of 2026-07-09
Nicholas Sparks wrote The Notebook after the story of his wife's grandparents' sixty-year marriage; the 2004 film distilled it into the modern vocabulary of screen romance. 'If you're a bird, I'm a bird' was written for the film (it is nowhere in the novel) and became its signature vow. The rain-soaked reunion kiss is regularly voted among the most replayed romantic scenes of the century.
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