GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

leethomas-11621 Old Hollywood. Nowadays the story is totally unconvincing even for a romantic comedy. Why would a serious person want Nickie if he is the playboy everyone thinks he is? And the visit to the sweet little old grandma and praying together there is unconvincing reason to suddenly want to marry someone! They have hardly left her then they are incredibly speaking of marriage and ending their current relationships. As for Nickie not even worrying about if something had happened to Terry....Why? I saw this in the '60s and loved it but the intervening years have not been kind to it. It's very slight I'm afraid.

robert-259-28954 It is a rare instance when I share this "Perfect 10" honor with another Hollywood tear-jerker supreme, "Love is a Many Splendored Thing," with a luminous Jennifer Jones in perhaps her greatest film role, and a superb William Holden. But I think the biggest difference between them is that "Affair" has many more laughs than tears, due in large part to the largely underrated comic genius of Cary Grant. Grant, who gets my vote as the single most handsome leading man in all of filmdom, was also one of the most adept at using self-deprecating humor to give his films a rare accessibility, combined with a degree pure male charisma to be admired. In terms of casting, writing, and score, "Affair" should have at least garnered an Oscar for it's enduring theme song, "An Affair to Remember" (sung by just about everyone, but none as good as Vic Damone), which continues to shine in the movie music firmament. In spite of Grant's spoken admiration of the original film as " better" ("Love Affair," with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer), alas, this one will remain the better known and most beloved version for the ages. It's a though Kerr and Grant watched the movie together and said, "How can we make it better?," then actually did. After dozens of viewings, I never tire of it's endless romance, tireless entertainment, and spectacularly heart rending ending, so touching that it even made Cary Grant cry. Catch it, and you will too.

gavin6942 A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen? This is a remake of "Love Affair" (1939) and a strong inspiration for "Sleepless in Seattle". Interestingly, both this film and "Love Affair" were directed by Leo McCarey and both were strong Oscar films. Apparently a director can make a film twice and be honored both times! Cary Grant makes a decent lead, and certainly had the charm and charisma to be the romantic actor type. But it is not a role I prefer for him. Indeed, he is so much stronger in madcap comedies, when strange things happen. Here there is just no soul... it may as well be a modern romantic comedy, which is not a compliment.

hall895 An Affair to Remember is a movie which begins with great promise. Unfortunately that promise ends up being well and truly squandered. Cary Grant plays Nickie Ferrante, a well-known playboy-type sailing from Europe to New York. Waiting for him in New York is his exceedingly wealthy fiancée. Their wedding is huge news, the famous ladies' man settling down. Reporters can't wait to get a piece of Nickie when he gets to New York. But on the ship there are complications. Those complications come in the form of Terry McKay, played by Deborah Kerr. Terry, much like Nickie, has a lover waiting for her in America. But, despite a seeming initial distaste for one another upon first meeting, Nickie and Terry fall in love. Theirs is a very chaste affair, this is a film made in 1957 after all, but there is no doubt that by the time they get to New York Nickie and Terry desperately want to be with one another. So then what? Well sadly then the movie falls apart.Grant and Kerr have an easy, appealing chemistry as their characters fall in love aboard the ship. Their efforts to keep their newfound relationship hidden away from the prying eyes of their shipmates are amusing. When the ship docks briefly in France a visit by the couple to Nickie's wonderfully sweet grandmother warms the heart. It is during this visit that they realize their true feelings for one another. Back on the ship they go and there is no longer any pretense: they're in love. But their being in love will cause all kinds of problems. Nickie is about to be married and, with no income of his own, marriage to a very wealthy woman can be quite useful. Meanwhile Terry's boyfriend seems to have marriage on the brain too. Can Nickie and Terry extricate themselves from their respective relationships? Should they? Toss away these long-standing relationships to be with someone you just met? Nickie and Terry come up with a plan. They'll take some time apart, sort things out and reconnect months later. The best laid plans...So, things don't really go according to plan. The movie contrives a way to keep Nickie and Terry apart. And thus does the movie fall to pieces. Whatever charm the movie had with Grant and Kerr working together is completely lost when they're apart. The second half of the film is a boring slog. Quite a drag. Then a bunch of kids show up out of nowhere for a couple of truly excruciating musical numbers. By this point the movie is a total disaster. It would be bad enough if there was at least a reason to keep Nickie and Terry away from one another. But there isn't, there's just one character being so stubborn and stupid that it's mind-boggling. It's a false way to try to create drama and it fails miserably. The movie just goes on and on, going on for so long that you forget why you were ever interested in the first place. The great promise shown in the first half of the movie comes to nothing. And then after boring you to tears for the better part of an hour the film rushes through a climax which is absurdly jarring and abrupt. Add it all up and this becomes a movie to forget.