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Gosling portrayed Noah Calhoun and commented on the role: "It gave me an opportunity to play a
character over a period of time – from 1940 to 1946 – that was quite profound and formative.
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile
dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is
spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a
carnival and they soon fall in love with each other. But Allie's parents do not approve of
their romance since Noah belongs to another social class. Noah writes 365 letters to Allie,
but her mother does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States
joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works
as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war,
they meet each other again and Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile
Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it. When Allie
accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided
between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the
old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home.
The blue valentine- Drama | Romance -The relationship of a contemporary married couple,
charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
The Place Beyond the Pines-A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way
to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a
collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a
corrupt detective.
Lost river-A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son
discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.