"Message in a Bottle
Grieving widower Garret Blake builds boats for a living. Theresa Osborne, a lonely divorcee and researcher for the Chicago Tribune, tracks down Garret after finding a message he wrote inside a bottle on a Cape Code beach and profoundly touched her heart.
The Notebook
In Seabrook, North Carolina in the 1940s, teenaged debutante Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and local boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) spend one passionate, carefree summer together and deeply in love. But when the summer ends, war and duty separate the young couple. Today, an elderly man (James Garner) visits a nursing home to read from his notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose memory is fading. As he spins a tale of two young lovers with their whole lives before them, his beloved Allie relives a long-ago passion that has never died, an unbreakable bond between two ordinary people rendered extraordinary by the strength, power and beauty of true love."