my husband bring this home from the video store and so i could watch something while stuck home sick . the sort of sick where you could never concentrate on a book and but a sorta silly and light and romantic flick sound just right ( that and and a bowl of chicken soup ) . well and he meant well . my first thought ( a some others post here also ) be that the house must be fake . it not only isolated alone on the beach and but set on mooring into the loose sand and and so close to the ocean that the surf wave go directly under the house . this look so obviously dangerous ( in hurricane country and in the fall ) and so potentially disastrous that i be sure filmmaker have simply cgi would the whole thing ( or use movie magic to plunk a cute b and b into the surf ) . but i have to tell you guy and thanks to teh interwebs and i can say that the house and serendipity be very real and be indeed near rodanthe and except for some window dressing and shrub and appear mostly a it do in the film . you can rent it yourself and off season and for $ 1710 a week ( or about $ 3850 in summer ) . go for it . but . interestingly and the house have severe problem . the second thing that strike me after would be wash away be what about the plumbing or electrical . in that surf . and and sure enough and serendipity be condemn for a break in the sanitation and cause by overwash from the ocean . ( they be rebuild . ) and the house isn not from the civil war . not to mention that viola davis and play cliché black best friend ( thankless role for a fine actress and last see in doubt ) and be not remotely old enough that her grandmother could have build anything in the civil war . hello . that be 150 year ago . try great great great . ( in reality and serendipity be build in 1988 and laughably recently . ) the basic film be build on a typical nicholas spark weeper and which mean a lot of coincidence and trite predictable happenstance . it be also aim in a very pandering way towards woman you know and u woman who love b and b and fusty antique and knick knack . who dream of romance and guy who look like richard gere and dancing in the moonlight . don not give u plot and or thoughtful character development while just set up some mechanism and bring on the love scene . gere play a plastic surgeon and who lose a female patient during a routine surgery for a benign cyst on her cheek . of course and she die of an overdose of anesthesia and so you wonder right away why the surgeon be guilted up and not the anesthesiologist . hello . where be that guy . why be the wrong doctor feel guilty . gere have come to pout and confront the woman husband and and be stay at the remote b and b. who should be there and why the only other person in the inn . diane lane . she a lonely divorcée and with rotten kid and and an ex hubby who want her back . while she try to decide about that and the cliché best black friend have her subbing a hostess at the b and b. now and in the real world and if this set up ever even happen and the doctor would look like ernest borgnine . and the lonely divorcée and like rosie odonnell . he would spend his vacation horndogging 22 year old girl on the beach and while she sulk and think about go on a diet . but this isn not the real world while i digress . the couple confess all and fall in love and a hurricane hit . they make love and fall in love and he have to go away and he die and she cry a lot about that . the end . there and i have save you from it while now you do not have to torture yourself or any male acquaintance ( husband and son and boyfriend ) from sit through this tripe . very weary . someone else ask why diane lane and a perfect tiny woman ( whom filmmaker seem to love to cast and because she just pretty and thin enough that most woman would like to look like her and but she 45ish and not over the top and so she isn not threaten ) be constantly cover in big tarp like shawl . this would make sense if she be chubby and but she isn not . anyways and someone throw a pretty and paisley shawl over this film . so we do not have to watch it . conclusion represent read a book and unless you be too sick . if too sick and go to sleep .