Richard Gere and Diane Lane play two unhappy people who meet and fall in love at a remote inn during hurricane season – although you might pause and wonder how a quaint but fragile wooden B&B has managed to last so long in a notoriously stormy hotspot.

This yearning affair, with many scenes of tasteful amour, offers an old-fashioned mix of middle-aged attraction, high wind, wads of impassioned letter writing, a little wine and Dinah Washington's greatest hits. The result can veer towards feeling like the outtakes from a Viagra commercial, but Gere and Lane, inset, are an attractive and persuasive couple. Unfortunately, however, Lane isn't loud enough in the mix to drown out poor Gere ploughing through declarations such as: "Nothing can be more lovely than the peaks and valley I traced on your body."

Since Nights In Rodanthe is based on a novel by Nicholas 'The Notebook' Sparks, it's unlikely to end happily, so sentiment junkies should pack a box of tissues.

• On general release from Friday

IGOR (PG)

**

John Cusack voices the title character in this animated tale about a kingdom whose main export is evil inventions. Although the humpbacked Igors (one for every mad scientist) are barred from inventing, one of the assistants creates a monster. Unfortunately, it's a showbiz monster that loves musicals and hopes to become an environmentalist.

Kids may enjoy the slapstick sidekicks but I've a hunch this is too thinly plotted to beguile parents.

• On general release from Friday

THE HOUSE BUNNY (12A)

**

Playboy Bunny Shelley (Anna Faris, right) celebrates her 27th birthday, only to discover that, at her Playboy Mansion home, that's 59 in bunny years. Kicked out, she finds a new home at a university sorority house, where she teaches misfits, social lepers, nerds and losers about peroxide, workouts and waxing. The film deserves an award for obviousness as it traffics in stereotypes and clichés that make Adam Sandler look sensitive and New Agey. As the students find their inner Wonder Woman, or at least their outer Wonderbra, you know that everyone deserves better than this.

• On general release from Friday

MIRRORS (15)

**

Alexandre Aja directs yet another remake of an Asian horror movie; in this case, 2003's Into The Mirror, from Korea. Evil spirits that live in mirrors menace Kiefer Sutherland in a deserted department store so ominous it makes the Bates Motel look like a Wetherspoons. A grisly, glossy horror with hardly a decent scare in it, despite someone ripping off their own jaw and an old woman exploding. Still, Sutherland gives it his clenched best shot.

• On general release from Friday