Nights in Rodanthe

Starring: AMERICAN GIGOLO Richard Gere, and that UNFAITHFUL Diane Lane...oh yeah, and SPIDER MAN nemesis, James Franco

UNFAITHFUL this was not. I kept waiting for Diane Lane to take off her clothes, but to no unveil. I think I caught a glimpse of her nipple, but wifey said that it wasn't. What kind of movie is this?

NIGHTS IN RODANTHE is another movie based on one of Nicholas Sparks' effeminate bestselling books. Okay, so I read "The Wedding" accidentally on purpose. Why can't they make more James Patterson movies?

The movie takes place in a Rodanthe, NC bed-and-breakfast where the only people staying for the week were, SURPRISE, Gere and Lane. If you isolate two attractive people in a room for a night or two, won't they always ooof? Anyway, there's a hurricane coming (cue the cliche traumatizing event), so, of course, they have to keep each other warm and safe.

Lane is in a dead-end marriage and Gere is a doctor who might as well be dead. Don't want to give away that part. Anyway, they find comfort in each other, tell each other their problems, and, SURPRISE, inevitably fall in love with that intoxicating mix of sharing and listening.

Okay, that's pretty much it for my sharing. Go watch the movie. Or read the book. I'm assuming the book was better. Isn't it always? If you know softie Nicholas Sparks' formulaic approach, you pretty much know what's coming. Beautiful read the book, but still managed to shed a tear or eight throughout.

Not a bad movie. Not a great movie. You gotta be a sucker for this kinda stuff. Of all his adaptations, I think this may have been the worst. Not that it sucked. It's all relative. Now, had Lane pulled some of her UNFAITHFUL acrobatics, this movie would've been the best romance movie of all time. She's only getting older. Still a little exposure time left in her.

I give this movie two people giving in to the passage of time, unable to perform the sexual calisthenics of their youth, staring into each others' eyes passionately, comfortably, intimately, truly, madly, deeply in a savage garden of love and lust, navigating hand-in-hand through that treacherous world we call "marriage"...