And that pretty much sums up Nights In Rodanthe from director stage director and playwright George C. Wolfe. No man on earth is going to be able to sit through this movie and believe for one second that anything like this story could ever happen in real life. First of all the always lovely Diane Lane meets the still hunky, graying Richard Gere in what is the coolest beach house on earth. They weather a hurricane and fall in love and so on… yea right. Ladies, it’s never gonna happen!

But evidently the ladies out there in filmdom line up to watch this sort of glop because the screening I attended was packed full of females who gave the film a rousing round of applause at the end between drying their eyes with Kleenex and sobbing on their friend’s shoulders. Seriously!

Seriously? If this is really what women think romantic love is all about then its no wonder most marriages end in divorce. Men are from Mars. Women are from another galaxy altogether. And “Nights In Rodanthe” is a romantic fantasy from another realm of reality.•••

Howie Green is a regular contributor to the national network EDGE.