Been hankering for some good ol' "The Notebook" magic come this Valentine's Day, with a splash of the hunktastic Channing Tatum? Well, you are in luck, Crushers, because Spyglass Entertainment has just the film for you.
Meet "The Vow," which is here to make all your wildest dreams come true. Rachel McAdams and Channing star as the perfect, albeit risk-taking, married couple at the center of this romantic drama. Trouble strikes the happy couple—literally—when they get in a terrible car accident, and Rachel's character loses her memory. Channing has to work to win her love back and see if, as the trailer says, a once-in-a-lifetime love can have a second chance.
While the plot and the film's stars might make it seem like this is just the next Nicholas Sparks-inspired story, it turns out that the flick is actually based on a true story about a woman who loses her memory and has to piece her life back together. We're hoping things worked out for the best, because we definitely need this to have a happier ending than "The Notebook."
We're totally digging the chemistry between Rachel and Channing from what we've seen in the trailer, and though the plot twist does seem a little overdone (it's like a more serious "50 First Dates," as MTV News writer Kara Warner pointed out), we're willing to risk it. And, since we know the twist up front instead of waiting to find out who is dying of cancer in a Nicholas Sparks movie, we feel like we can go into this flick with the expectation that the sad storyline will get better before it gets worse.
Rachel has grown incredibly well as an actress since "The Notebook" shot her to fame, and though we can't promise the kind of chemistry she had with Ryan Gosling (I mean, a cardboard box could have chemistry opposite that dreamboat), the movie certainly shows some definite promise.
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