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An Affair To Remember [1957]
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Get out your handkerchiefs for this four-star weepie, a 1957 remake of the 1939 Love Affair, directed by Leo McCarey, who also made the original. Grant and Kerr are strangers on an ocean liner, involved with other people, but who can't resist each other for a shipboard romance. They decide to test whether this is the real thing by agreeing to split up, then meet in six months atop the Empire State Building. Is there anyone who can resist that setup or the tragic romantic mishap that nearly splits them up? Can you keep dry eyes during the famous finale? Some prefer the original (with Charles Boyer); practically no one liked the underrated 1994 remake with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. While occasionally a shade slow, this one soars on Grant's charm and Kerr's noble suffering. --Marshall Fine
gorgeous
Review date: 2008-08-14 Rating: 8 out of 10
I only bought this film because they mention it alot on 'sleepless in seattle' and i love it, its a really sweet old fasioned love story and nobody could fail to love cary grants performance, it was this film that started my love for his films.
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Reviews
But...
Review date: 2008-06-18 Rating: 10 out of 10
Wonderful film if you enjoy traditional romantic comedy. Italian scenes with the old woman are very touching despite the religious flummery. To get through the mawkish US child interludes just imagine they are all drowned afterwards like unwanted (and very unattractive) kittens. Or strangled...
Uneven classic
Review date: 2008-04-05 Rating: 8 out of 10
Cary Grant's charm and charisma could make almost anything watchable, but this is a very good film with good, snappy dialogue. Still, the second 'weepie' half is not as good as the wise-cracking ocean liner-set first half, and there's far too much singing by those sickly children, which has me contantly reaching for the remote to turn the volume down.
Also, that bit where they leave the old (but how much older than Grant!?) grandmother in Europe, and you just know that this is going to be the last time they see her, is much more sad than the tragic accident and failed meeting atop the Empire State that it precipitates. When Kerr starts humming to the old lady's piano I started to cringe, but the scene turns into something quite touching, probably due to the superb, subtle perfomances from all three actors in it.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Deborah Kerr
Cary Grant
Cathleen Nesbitt
Richard Denning
Neva Patterson
Creators:
Deborah Kerr (Primary Contributor)
Cary Grant (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
EAN: 5039036020855
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2005-05-09
Audience rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region code: 2
Running time: 110 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1957
Language: English (Original Language)