My question is, how do you take a Nicholas Sparks novel, add Richard Gere and Diane Lane, and have it turn out this badly.  All the signs where there for a great movie, but in the end, it just fell flat.  I haven’t read the book, so lets hope it was better.  There was little here worth mentioning other than it was VERY formulaic for a romance-drama.  So much so that you can figure out what happens without even seeing the movie.  Frank Lovece from over at filmjournal.com said it best:

It’s the film of a Lifetime…cable network.

If you find you happen to watch the Lifetime channel at least a couple hours a day, you might like this film.  If you are looking for something creative and/or thought provoking this is not for you.  If you make your boyfriend go, try not to laugh at the parts where you are supposed to be crying.  Nights of Rodanthe is currently scoring a 29% on rottentomatoes, and a paltry 5.6 on the imdb.