In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous and the lover’s future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.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
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May 15, 2008
#1
I can’t believe how many people love this movie and its predecessor, “Love Affair.” To me they are nothing but unbelieveable melodramas in which one wishes she could pull the characters off the screen and give them each a few dummy slaps.
Grant/Boyer is/are the worst–whiny, self-pitying, etc.
Maybe I’m just not romantic. I wanted to give Rick a swift kick in “Casablanca,” too.
May 15, 2008
#2
this is the movie they stole sleepless in seattle from.theres 2 famous people who meet on a cruise.they are both already spoken for but fall in love.they decide to meet on the top of the empire state building in a year after the cruise ends if they still want to get married.he shows,she does too.only he goes to the top and stands in the rain all day and she is hit by a car when she gets out of her cab.she is crippled.he assumes she ditched him and is crushed.the next christmas he goes to find out whats going on and lays into her with a verbal tirade.he sees a painting he did that he had his employee give to a crippled woman hanging on her wall then it all came together.cary grant is the dude.i hear the girls loved him back in the day.a cool qoute was”we’ll meet on top of the empire state building because its the closest place to heaven we have hear in new york”.i think theres other versions.i hear this ones the best.i know quite a few non-romantics who were on the edge of their seat with this one.its very emotional!the chicks were total hotties in thier time.not like that ho marilyn monroe though.oh my GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!ITS AN EXCELLENT MOVIE
May 15, 2008
#3
Having just watched “Affair” on AMC, I’m still — forgive the expression — reeling. I don’t know anything about the production history of this film, but I prefer to think of it as Leo McCarey’s “Greed” — that is, I need to believe that the Studio wrenched this thing from the great director’s hands, butchered it (at least the second half), and burned the good stuff.
Okay, I suppose the director of the incomparably sentimental “Going My Way” *might* have directed this film’s stupefying warbling urchins, or set up that damned wheelchair shot. He might even have approved that stinking theme song. But I just can’t bring myself to accept any of it.
I’m going to pop “Duck Soup” into the VCR and pray that I can get the taste of sludge out of my mouth.
May 15, 2008
#4
What an incredible waste this films turns out to be. Grant and Kerr give wonderful performances . . . until that incredible, amazingly awful third reel. And when they trot out the ivory-skinned, rosy-cheeked Singing Cherubs you’ll have to use all your self-control to keep from laughing out loud, or losing your lunch, depending on your mood.
There may be better examples of Really Bad Screenwriting out there, but it would be hard to find one that, somehow, met with such wide-eyed acceptance.
May 15, 2008
#5
I was very disappointed with this movie. After all of the raves I had heard about it, I was not impressed. I would not recommend this movie to anyone.