What you might perceive as "little diary", may contain someones entire heart pouring and soul in there. I would personally never read someone else’s diary unless of course, Its like MS Diary. That is a major invasion of someone else’s privacy and personal property.
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas is very soul stirring and marvelously done romantic film. You get so close up to the characters, haunting for love, that you live the whole film with them. Based on author James Patterson’s novel the film is about a woman who discovers the truth about her lover from the diary his late wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Katie Wilkinson(Kathleen Rose Perkins), a New York book editor, who has it all - everything except love in her life, falls intensely in love with a temperamental writer, Matt Harrison(Johnathon Scaech). She thinks finally God has answered and she has found the man of her dreams in life. Sandwiched between all the pouting and seduction, whining, and contrived eccentricity, there is a real person in Katie, who goes to pieces, the minute Matt comes around. On the night when Katie prepares him a surprise dinner with plans to take their liaison to a deeper/higher level, a decisive point of commitment(Marriage), Matt tells her that he is breaking up with her and leaves with no further details.
Katie is devastated at Matt’s sudden and abrupt end to their passionate affair without reason and rhyme, unknown to Matt, she expecting his child.
Confounded by her heart-breaking loss, Katie fights back to make sense of what has happened, when she receives suddenly a package from Matt containing a diary written for his young son Nicholas with a note explaining that, though it will not be easy to read, it will help Katie understand him better.
Turning the pages, Kate learns of Matt’s first wife, a doctor Suzanne(Christina Applegate) and their life together in Martha’s Vineyard. As Katie reads, she begins to grasp the painful journey that Matt recently experienced and how it influenced everything in his life and, in turn, in Katie’s life as well. The Movie is double narrative, moving back and froth between the past and present.
In the diary, Suzanne details the Martha’s Vineyard romance shared between a young housepainter who dreams of becoming a writer, and a female doctor who yearns to experience the joys of motherhood despite her being beleaguered by the early onset of heart disease at 33. Suzanne leaves her practice in Boston for the seclusion on the island, the fantasy world of her childhood, Martha’s Vineyard and becomes a down-to-earth lady medico the locals lovingly refer to with slightly guarded appreciation.
In the Boston, she is forsaken by a doctor dude who can’t fathom the difference between not having a family, and love and marriage. Once she meets Matt, both fall madly in love. They have a couple of dinners, a vital dance from pub to beach to bed(lack of a Bolloywood song), and a serious chat about commitment, kids, and cardiac arrest, and before you know it—Jat Magni Pat Shadi type—they’re married. Naturally, marriage leads to family, but there is a apprehension about having a child, which may weaken, or even kill, Suzanne, but the couple are resolute to have a baby. Filled with so much manipulative melodrama, your eyes will scream "Bucket, Bucket". Sadly, the tissues were not there for me.
What happens next alters Matt’s life forever and makes Kate realize that, without Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas; she might never appreciate her tormented man’s much melancholy. As the awful story of Matt’s first love plays out right before Kate’s teary eyes and of course Ours too, it gives her an opening to reflect on the love that slowly slipped out of her loving embrace. Kate is as intricate as Suzanne is pure and both highly professional qualified persons, makes Matt’s choices difficult.
But thanks to the wonderful acting, what could have been sugary and slipshod *comes away with much of its dignity intact and there is enough balance and honesty offered to make up for and manage the most out-of-control tear jerk moments. The story of a person losing everything, only to find a reason for continuing on with life is doesn’t diminish its overall impact, but does challenge the emotional burden. *It is one of those that makes you reflect on your life and tells you to remember what it important.
It was beautiful sweet story, Well, actually bittersweet, I blubber. I cannot explain the emotions that I felt with this movie. It was like it was real life and felt that you knew them and wanted to comfort them. I know it sounds silly, but I am a emotional person, I cried on the Lion King, LoL. If you can get through this without feeling some tugs at your heartstrings, well then, I think just a tiny piece of your soul might be missing.*Just don’t expect sentimental miracles.
Cast
Christina Applegate - Suzanne Bedford
Johnathon Schaech - Matt Harrison
Kathleen Rose Perkins - Katie Wilkinson
Richard Friedenberg - Director, Screenwriter
James Patterson - Executive Producer, Book Author
Robert Sturm, Lourdes Diaz - Executive Producer
Rating 3/5
Warning Adult Content
Would you let someone read your diary?