Rachel McAdams playing the young Allie Hamilton character does an outstanding, passionate performance as a young girl falling in love for Ryan Gosling performing as the young Noah Calhoun gives the right chemistry for the audience for us to share in this experience. Their performances pulls us into their passion, their love.
This is balanced out with Gena Rowlands and James Garner playing the roles of the older couple as the older Allie and the Duke later on in years of their relationship. As the story is told about their life, seeing their love for one another develop, seeing their passionate love grow for one another is wonderful to share in this cinematic experience, more than once.
Another film comes to mind is "The Family Man" where Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni are great together with their love for each other but in a different context.
This is balanced out with Gena Rowlands and James Garner playing the roles of the older couple as the older Allie and the Duke later on in years of their relationship. As the story is told about their life, seeing their love for one another develop, seeing their passionate love grow for one another is wonderful to share in this cinematic experience, more than once.
Another film comes to mind is "The Family Man" where Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni are great together with their love for each other but in a different context.