Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)

Based on James Patterson's touching novel this made-for-television movie starring Christina Applegate and Jonathon Schaech explores the parallels between the lives of book editor Kate Wilkinson and Suzanne the woman whose diary Kate is now considering publishing. Suzanne writes of her life so that her unborn son will know her while Kate gets drawn into Suzanne's story and slowly finds a way to connect it with her own.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 013131487695 Manufacturer No: DV14876 Product Description

Not worth your time!

I read Patterson's book based off this story. The book was great and well worth my time reading it. It is a very short book but I grew so fond of the charactors in the book I forgot for a mintue that they were not real.

The movie could not have sucked more. I did not like any of the charactors. They did not follow the book very much. They did not build the charactors up like the book. It was a complete waste of my time.

The ending was sad like the book but not as touching as the book. The build up sucked and I really had a hard time with the love part of it. The actors seemed to hate each other and there was no chemistry whatso ever between them.

I could not have hated this movie any more than I did.

October 22, 2007

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

This film is a based on the novel, written by James Patterson of the same name. It's clearly from beginning to end dominated by then Christina Applegate's husband Jonathan Schaech (plays Matt Harrison) and Kathleen Ross Perkins (Kate Wilkinson), with Christina Applegate (Suzanne Bedford, Matt's original wife) completing the ensemble. Primarily placed in contemporary Marth's Vinyard, and having reasonable production values, Suzanne (new town doctor) and Matt (town handyman, house-painter and self-effacing unpublished writer) basically have a peanut butter and jelly style romance, lights-out sex (!#$%$@!), get married and have a baby in that order. Jumping ahead a few years, Matt, who is completely depressed, somehow finds the initiative and has the incredible luck to make it big with a New York publishing house. He then is quickly lassoed by his desperately lonely editor, Kate, who falls in love with him at their first luncheon---even before they're served water, I think. But don't worry, this technically doesn't create a classic love-triangle. Whew! This does get complex. So forget about the plot...

Fundamentally, it's a constant swing between the present and the past, with about twenty, best-fit-possible, flash-backs. Plus, Kathleen Ross Perkins provides a stunning anchor performance. I think Jonathan did his best to play a manic-depressive but he was probably just too confused as to whether he was playing the "then-now-past", "recent-forgotten-past", "historical-past", "recent-future", "present-time-now-timeline", "future-future-present", or what....which would be confusing for anyone! September 17, 2007

Disappointing

This was so NOT a 5 star movie... it was OK at best, but that's about it. I've heard many people loved the book, but the movie really flopped. My husband called it "cheesy" and we both thought the build-up to the ending, although the surprise (won't spoil it here) was certainly sad... seemed to be one of those movie endings that they run out of money and ideas and wrap it all up in 5 minutes. In fact, this would have been a better movie if it were a 30 minute vignette. July 31, 2007

A trip inside the heart

This movie is so amazing, it shows how a heart may be healed no matter the difficulties that happened or how past events influenced a present painful situation.

Performings are brilliant, locations are really well chosen, that really make you get into the plot. It's a very nice version of the actual book.

I just love it! February 28, 2007

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