Video: Richard Gere and Diane Lane in “Nights in Rodanthe”

Watch the trailer for Nights in Rodanthe, due out October 3rd, right here on Fancast.

Richard Gere must have needed to get some of his leading man cred back after playing a man cuckolded by Diane Lane in Unfaithful. So much so that he’s now starring as Lane’s ‘other man’ in Nights in Rodanthe, a story about two people from broken marriages finding a new lease on life with each other at an inn in North Carolina. It’s familiar territory for Lane, if you recall Under the Tuscan Sun, but hey - you go with what works for you.

A romancey tear-jerker drama, to be sure, also starring James Franco as Gere’s estranged son and Christopher Meloni as Lane’s estranged husband. Meloni, in particular, is a good choice, because we only ever see him as the hardass Detective Stabler on Law & Order: SVU or as gloriously insane people in wacky comedies like Wet Hot American Summer and Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. It’ll be great to see him explore some of that middle ground in his range.

It’s a movie for adults dealing with adult problems, and if Sex and the City did nothing else, it proved that movies about real grown-ups can still draw a crowd.