An Affair To Remember (50th Anniversary Edition) Reviews

• Timeless Love Story To Make You Laugh and Cry

  
  By A3BIWTN2DA0YY2 on 2001-02-18
  From the beautiful opening song crooned by Vic Damone to the tearful last scene, this movie will have you alternately crying, laughing, and crying again. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are perfection as the two people who meet on a ship and fall in love. Because they are each engaged to other people, they decide to put their feelings to the test of time. They agree to meet atop the Empire State Building in six months if they feel the same. One shows up, one doesn't because of tragic circumstances. When they accidentally meet months later at a ballet, it is awkward, yet the chemistry cannot be denied. A sentimental painting, an art dealer's story of a lady in a wheelchair, and Cary Grant's dramatic opening of a door lead to an ending that requires a full box of tissues but is one of Hollywood's most memorable scenes. In addition, this movie is enhanced by a delighful choir of orphans, a grandmother with an idyllic villa, and Richard Denning in a superb supporting role. Traditionally a movie to watch with the one you love on Valentine's Day, this movie is excellent alone, as a duo, or in a large group. Not just a chick flick, but a movie for everyone who has ever loved or dreamed of being in love.
  
  

• An Affair to Remember

  
  By A1OGPR0AKZ4K7D on 2008-03-19
  When anyone talks about a favorite romantic drama, this movie always comes to mind. This is such a superb classic with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. No one has the chemistry and on screen presence that they do.
  
  
  

• A wonderfully romantic picture!

  
  By A2SX6VNPSJPGP7 on 2000-11-27
  One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, "An Affair to Remember" is one of the most enchanting love stories ever put on film. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in the film, and the two are an elegant pair: Grant's classy wit and Kerr's stylistic charm were made for each other.

  Grant is an amorous playboy aboard a ship heading to Europe. Also on board ship is Kerr, an engaged ex-singer. The two meet accidentally and through a series of events, are smitten after a few days. Torn about their own romantic prospects, they finally decide to break off their respective engagements and meet at the top of the Empire State Building in six months, when he has collected some necessary funds. But fate intervenes and their planned meeting is jeopardized...

  A beautiful blend of script, direction, acting, and cinematography, (not to mention a glorious title song) "An Affair to Remember" is a very romantic, very lovely film that is great for early morning-watching on Christmas Day with a sweetheart. Buy this one and you'll fall in love with it forever.
  
  

• A story for the True Romantic!

  
  By A7GMH59YFIQNM on 2002-02-05
  They say this movie is strickly for the Female population.
  They say that no Man on earth could completely "Get" this movie.
  We don't have actors like Cary Grant now adays to stick up for us Real men who can comprehend such a deep rich love theme.
  And what a shame too....the days of suave gentlemen are gone and replaced by the Brad Pitts.....in reality....I believe women want to see more men become true and romantic gentlemen.

  Well "An Affair to Remember" is one of those classics that belong to the tragic love affair file....but with a happy ending.
  Cary and Deberah Kerr are a perfect combination for this.
  Like Charles Boyer and Irene Dunn before them, Grant and Kerr find even more depth with general facial expressions and gestures, that remind me of Capra-esque qualities in their characters.
  The scene where Grant is revisiting the home of his Grandmother who had just passed away...returning to the scene in his mind where Love was new and the sounds he hears of the afternoon when he had much to look foward to.....it's heartbreaking to want to touch something that once housed his affection.....we realise then that Grants love for Kerr is as real to us also.

  One note...one perfect reason why this movie appeals to me and why I am writing this review in hopes that more people will better understand this movie....
  The End scene....To almost walk away from True love, and taste the sadness and dissapointment, to kiss her hand and to say goodbye forever....and within moments....within its painful honesty ....realize that true love does in fact prevail over obsticals is an overwhelming revelation.
  "If it had to happen to one of us....why did it have to happen to you"?......"If you can Paint, I can walk"!
  
  

• A Great Story, but not the best of the classics

  
  By AD0Z6SQNBKI9E on 2003-05-31
  I give this movie 5 stars for the story (it is wonderful) but I had to deduct 1 star because the movie is just a little bit on the dull side. Most of the scenes just involve the 2 lead characters talking to each other... not much action or comedy. This made the movie drag a bit. However, the story line is very romantic although it didn't seem entirely realistic that they both fell so madly in love with each other. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr just don't seem like a couple (at least in this movie).

  Also, I think this movie is not just for the (slightly) older generation. I am a 22-year-old college student and really liked it... so don't be afraid to buy it just because it's a classic. The movie is in color and the DVD did have some unique extra features... for example the trailer is there... pretty funny how different trailers are today than they were back then.
  
  

• Better than I anticipated....
  By A3CSRP3P4U9HI on 2000-02-05
  "An Affair to Remember" with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr has a lot to offer. I was skeptical when my wife brought this video home for "us" to watch, but I decided to give it an honest try. Once the movie got underway, and the character development started to take place, I became interested. There was more to Grant than a womanizing cad (thought it took a while for him to shake that image in the movie), and Kerr came across as a world-wise, yet innocent (in a sense), former night club singer.

  While they are both committed to other people, Grant and Kerr meet and fall in love on a ship cruising from Europe to America.

  Some of the dialogue and situations appear to be somewhat contrived, but the acting and story line development stirs true emotion.

  This is probably not a movie for the bump and grind Monday Night Football crowd, but it is both watchable and enjoyable. Maybe I was primed to watch it by seeing "Sleepless in Seattle" recently, a movie that my wife and I both enjoy.

  Anyway, give this movie a chance...it's somewhat dated, but it's still got something to offer.
  
  

• fine movie but overrated
  By A1Q6I2YFXE515E on 2003-12-28
  As a lover of classic films I find myself frustrated by the recent popularity of such a mediocre movie when there are so many much-better films out there. I think it may be its reference in "Sleepless in Seattle", another good but overrated film, that has made this one so popular today and even though the 1939 version, "Love Affair" (also directed by Leo McCarey)is considerably better, people, in this actor-obsessed age in which we live in, are drawn to this one because it has Cary Grant in it. Unfortunately this version has no soul to it and the two main actors have almost no chemistry between them. I would find myself nodding off from time to time if it weren't for the nice scenery and excellent story because the actors themselves seem to be sleepwalking through the story. In fact, even the 1994 version, "Love Affair" is better than this. I do like Cary Grant and I want to like this movie more but I cannot in good conscience rate it any higher than this. I wish people would try out the superior 1939 version instead, but I realize that that is unlikely to happen. I don't want to beat up on this version too much. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are still good actors and they do a fine job here. I just think that it is a mistake for so many to make a bee-line for this one film in the classics section of the video store and pass over so many other great movies. For many, this is one of the only classic movies that they ever see and it is a poor example to them of the quality of the films from that age.
  
  
• 4 stars for the movie, 1 star for the "special edition" extras
  By A35VI0H5AFHOJ5 on 2008-01-15
  This is a review that assumes you already know the movie--possibly by heart by now--and are wondering if your love affair with "An Affair to Remember" needs this "50th Anniversary Special Edition" with the commentary track and mysterious, unexplained (on this page at least) second disc. Short answer: a resounding NO! What they (whoever they are) did was take a movie classic that millions love and that, as Deborah Kerr says, "people watch every six months to have a good cry," and bury it in blather.
  
  Here's what's on disc two: 1. A few minutes of the Widow Grant talking about her love affair with Cary in the most unrevealing way imaginable. 2. A few minutes of screenwriter Peter Viertel, Kerr's second husband, talking about how their love affair broke up Kerr's first marriage, then inferring that he played around during their 30 years together and she put up with it because "she was a saint." 3. Endless minutes of Peter Bogdanovich and an all male bunch of academic talking heads blathering on about the life and works of director Leo McCarey, who also played around and was an alcoholic and whose suavity was said to be the inspiration for Cary Grant's screen personna. 4. Jerry Wald's brother and sons with a bio of the producer. 5. The return of the blathering academics to dissect the look of the movie. 6. Newsreel clips from the premiere and TA DA!...7. the only interesting and professional-looking piece on the entire bonus disc: an AMC "Backstory" feature which you may well have already seen on TV and which dishes some interesting dirt accompanied by decent visuals.
  
  Having wasted my ears on disc 2 before trying out the commentary track on disc 1, I was admittedly blathered out and it didn't help that the film historian-commentator early on started getting some plot points wrong. But what pushed me to the "off" button was his anecdote about meeting Cary Grant after Grant's retirement and introducing himself by saying (oh barf) "I come to you with a message from the women of America: they want you to return to the screen," to which good old Cary replied, "What did you do, take a poll?"
  
  You'll note that they waited to release the 50th anniversary edition of this 1957 movie until 2008. I suspect the reason is they had to wait for all the principals to be dead (Kerr and Viertel died in the fall of '07) before they could get away with producing a tribute that's so on-the-cheap and unworthy.
  
  Ah, how I'd love to read Nora Ephron's take on this debacle.
  
  As the British radio guy says in his signoff at the beginning of the movie: Well....there you have it.
  
  
  
• Everyone loves this movie - even us guys
  By A33Y64HEM6T0NN on 1999-11-23
  Yes, I'm a guy and I love this movie. I will only share it with a girlfriend once I determine she's special because I know she'll see me in a different light and the relationship will be forever changed.

  I once saw "An Affair to Remember" end with Cary Grant carrying Deborah Kerr up the stairs of the grandmother's villa instead of ending with the tearful scene on the couch. Only one other person I know has seen that version. Does anyone else remember that scene?

  The film was shown on the American Movie Classics cable network in its original Widescreen format February 1994. I owned a VHS copy in the widescreen format but an ex girlfriend made off with that copy. I haven't been able to find another since. Anyone know where I could find either of these copies?
  
  

• My favorite movie of all time!!!
  By AB0EAUPC8MYIL on 1999-03-09
  If there is any romanticism in your heart, this movie will just sweep you away. Two people who are engaged to others meet on a ship and they try to deny their feelings for eachother. They decide that they need to take care of all loose ends before they can continue past a stolen kiss (wonderfully romantic) - and they decide to meet 6 months later (after they break their engagements) on the top of the empire state building. Tragedy of course occurs, and the end doesn't leave a dry eye in the house. Cary is at his best, and Deborah Kerr is completely charming.
  
  
• Is schmaltz necessarily a flaw? It depends....
  By ALD1CRUBY1365 on 2000-12-30
  Even in this more cynical age, some two generations after this film was made, I'm not really surprised it's still in print. What we have here is a shipboard romance that both Holland America and Carnival Lines know better than to promise prospective passengers. Cary Grant stars as a pre-Jet Set playboy on the verge of a marriage of convenience. Deborah Kerr stars as a former lounge singer who's met "Mr. Right" in the form of a patron where she used to sing. It's a bit unsubtle the way we know that both upcoming marriages are "the right thing to do" very early on. That is, until Grant and Kerr meet on the ship. Grant plays the debonair role we came to expect of him over the years, while Kerr's earnest performance and wholesome beauty remind us that Meryl Streep did not invent character acting. Robert Q Lewis is forgettable in a cameo as a previous-generation Robin Leach type, but Cathleen Nesbitt shines as Grant's subtly-matchmaking French grandmother, a role pleasantly similar to her later role in the '60s TV series "The Farmer's Daughter". Neva Patterson is predictable as Grant's too-glamorous fiancee, but Richard Denning is impressive as Kerr's--a standup guy who may have lost her hand, but he evidently believes in Robert Heinlein's definition of love--when another person's well-being is essential to your own. At least with me, this film stands the test of time--I'm nowhere near the romantic I was when I first saw it, but it still does things to me.
  
  
• Not bad - good if you like the style...
  By A2TV6SBCWT7P8S on 2002-07-20
  I can't quite figure out why so many people absolutely adore this movie. Perhaps it is simply because I am not a fan of tearjerkers at all - instead of making me cry, they make me just want to turn them off. But, if you are a fan of that type of film, this would be the ultimate film to watch. No other romance can quite equal the charm of this movie, and even though it is not my style of movie, I can recognize that it is the best of its kind.

  Essentially, An Affair to Remember is about an irresponsible ladies man (Cary Grant, at his most charming) who meets and falls in love with a beautiful, sincere woman (Deborah Kerr) on a boat. It describes their subsequent romance, complete with many shipboard scenes, the famous Empire State scene, and "heartbreaking" events. The last scene is famous for making people cry - although I personally didn't - it is a very emotional scene.

  Anyhow, even though as a rule I detest tearjerkers, the fact that I tolerate this movie, and even think it is somewhat good in parts, shows that it is really a good movie for people who enjoy romances/tearjerkers. Mainly, this is because of the fantastic stars, the glamorous and handsome Cary Grant (so talented he makes it all look so easy) and beautiful Deborah Kerr. This movie is also very innocent and has no inappropriate material, unlike some similar movies that are made now. So, I would say that if you enjoy what I consider "sappy" romances or tearjerkers, this would surely be the movie for you. If you don't then skip it and watch Bringing up Baby instead.
  
  

• A Tearjerker?????
  By on 2001-11-12
  While I realize that I am undoubtedly in the minority, I have to say that I found this movie to be a complete disappointment. I was told it was a "tearjerker" and that it would reduce me to marshmallow status. Bleh. While I enjoyed the first half (on the ship), I found the attempted sentimentality to be a bit much. And those warbling kids? Ugh. What trite garbage. The ending seemed forced and, in my opinion, leaves you hanging (does she walk again, or not? does he stay with her or not?). The entire scene with the grandmother... what was the point of THAT? Just a tacked-on excuse for overindulgence in quasi-sentimentality. Boring. I was very very disappointed in this movie... especially considering how much hype it gets (a lot, considering the fact that it's over 40 years old). I was expecting a sweet, slightly sappy, feel-good tearjerker. Instead I found it to be hackneyed and trite. Definitely one to skip. What a let down.
  
  
• Sheer beauty...a timeless classic.
  By A21OP98L0L2FZG on 2001-02-12
  I must confess, as an 18 year old guy, you may not take my review seriously. But I must say, this is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. A beautiful story that hits you straight at the deepest pit of your being. I rented the movie after I saw sleepless in seatle (another great movie) and saw the scenes involved, and the context used. It was well worth the effort. The story is beautifully timed, with the pace set perfectly, and the 'viewer story' working perfectly with the 'character version' You see just enough of what 'they' do not to make this movie a beautiful tear jerker, with a wonderful ending. Do yourself a favor. Buy this.
  
  
• one of my top five
  By A1OO7OYL4XMA5F on 2007-10-25
  Since Deborah Kerr passed away last week, I feel compelled to write a review of this wonderful motion picture which, after more viewings than I can even count, remains in my top five alltime favorites. Yes, the movie is corny. Yes, it's mostly unbelievable. What two people, so in love as Terry and Nicky, would promise to meet in six months and have absoloutely no contact with each other during the six months? I like to think of it as a test of their love. After all, they gained some depth of character while on the ship together. I like to think that they wanted to see if the changes in themselves would last. Yes, it's unbelievable that Nicky would not try to find Terry when she didn't show up atop the Empire State Building. Yes, it's unbelievable that Terry would not tell Nicky why she wasn't there. But, It's a movie, for goodness sakes. And movies, at least for me, are about escapism. They're not about the "real world." They are a place I go to fantasize, to dream, to cry tears of happiness. This classic love story gives me all of these 'places.' And it gives me so much more. I only wish that those days were not long gone from the hills of Hollywood.
  
  Deborah kerr was 86 years old when she passed away last week. But, to me, she will always be Terry McKay who, once upon a time on a cruise ship, fell in love with Nicky Ferrante and who, after going through hell, found her way back into his arms sitting on a couch beside a warm fireplace at Christmas time.
  
  
• Romanticism at its Best
  By A2E27JJ9XBABRC on 2002-01-21
  The blend of beautiful people, romantic shipboard setting and a promise to meet at the highest spot in New York (sadly, it is again) in 6 months, is the reason to watch this movie over and over again. It is my personal favorite, not because it so so outstanding technically, but because it strikes a chord. He, waiting through a thunder and lightening storm on the observation deck, watching every elevator door open, she, looking up, then the squeal of tires, you know she's been hit, but it's left to your imagination-aah, that's what good story telling is all about. I have been on many cruises and it never fails that when I hear the ship's horn blow, I think of Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr with Little Grandma, and how she looked pained every time she heard it, knowing it would soon be time for her dear Nickolo to leave. I'll always love the movie, the music, and cry at the end when Cary Grant says, "If it had to be one of us, why did it have to be you?"
  
  
• I wish they still made movies like this
  By A2GPEV42IO41CI on 2002-07-18
  This marvelous movie stars Cary Grant as a rich (and engaged) playboy who is attracted to transatlantic shipmate Deborah Kerr, who is also engaged. She finds him quite silly and shallow, until they stop in France to visit his grandmother; then his tender side comes out and they fall in love. They agree to end their respective engagements and meet in six months atop the Empire State Building...
  
  The two beautiful stars of this movie are absolutely wonderful, so elegant and charismatic. The script portrays the 50's-ideal of romance between two mature people. It was the stuff dreams were made of then and it still is today. I highly recommend this sparkling romantic comedy.
  
  
• A classic shipboard romance.
  By A3IX9JTCKX7PH on 2002-11-24
  The dashing and handsome Cary Grant plays Nick Ferrante, a man who is about to marry his girlfriend. While on a ship going to New York, he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr), a former nightclub singer who also is involved with someone else. The two quickly hit it off and realize they are in love. Since they're both seeing other people, they decide to meet in six months at the top of the Empire State Building if everything works out. When the six months are over, Nick waits for Terry to show up, but a tragic misfortune occurs and she is unable to make it. Nick, not knowing what happened to Terry, assumes she changed her mind about them being together. The finale is very sad and touching.

  Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr's chemistry is absolutely fantastic and the acting is superb. An Affair To Remember is an unforgettable classic that also provides a few laughs, too. It is definitely the best romantic movie I've ever seen!
  
  

• Where's Douglas Sirk When You Need Him?
  By A1HYGEDA3GUQX on 2002-12-01
  The film is schizophrenic - the first half is the more enjoyable one, featuring wry, smart, sharp repartee between the two very charismatic lead actors. The second half retreats into a sappy, spineless mush pit. It's hard to believe this made #5 on the AFI-Passions listing -- one might argue that any movie that hints of a romance should have made it, too, as a result.

  The two musical interludes featuring a singing Terry (Deborah Kerr) and kids were really unnecessary -- did she still think that she was Anna from 'The King And I?'

  This movie's achievement is that it is the ancestor of contemporary schmaltzy fare such as 'Sleepless In Seattle' and 'Serendipity.' If only the star-crossed predicaments were a little more believable, even within the realm of a romantic comedy.
  
  

• Does romance really take this long?
  By on 2004-01-24
  This 1957 love story starring Cary Grant as Nickie Ferrante and Deborah Kerr as Terry McKay is 115 minutes of pure romance drug out to the extreme. We begin the movie with the engagement announcement of our sweet talking bachelor playboy, Nickie Ferrante's to an American heiress. He's on his way to meet his fiancé in New York City via a luxury ocean liner. A chance meeting with night club singer Terry McKay, who is the mistress of a successful businessman, changes this playboy's ways. They try to hide their feelings towards each other from everyone including Nickie's grandmother. During this long voyage they fall in love and make a promise to each other. They promise to break off their relationships with their significant others and meet on top of the Empire State Building in six months. A tragic accident prevents Terry from following through with her promise to meet Nickie. Nickie is angry and hurt that Terry never came to meet him. Months later Terry and Nickie see each other for the first time since they were supposed to meet. All they could say to each other is hello. The ending of this movie is what makes this movie one of the most romantic films out there.

  The story line is great. The actors are doing a fine job. The movie itself just seems to stall at times. There are too many drop out scenes where it slows the movie down too much. If the movie would step up and move as swiftly as it does in the last 20 minutes it would be great.
  
  

• The Ultimate Love Story
  By A15IVR27KIIM7L on 2005-09-30
  Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, New York City, the French Riviera - all the perfect ingridients for the ultimate love story! Deborah Kerr's character is very modern even by today's standards, while Cary Grant is as chevalresque and afraid to commit as any New York guy today.
  I've watched this film at least 50 times and still can't get enough of it!
  
  
• I cried
  By A1KDQZ5T19Z2AJ on 2000-05-11
  I'm an old Military man. Tears filled my eyes. One of my favorite classics and I'm happy with the DVD.
  
  
• Oh no! Not the St. Cliche Singing Cherubs!!!
  By A2OD3MQXALEYMS on 2001-02-22
  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.
  
  

• Toxic waste
  By on 2001-09-10
  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.
  
  

• One of my all-time favorites....
  By A3UJOYYWPU7WJB on 2001-09-28
  ..but I loved the other versions much more. The 1939 original "Love Affair" with Irene Dunne & Charles Boyer had more better chemistry between the two. The newer 1994 version with Waren Beatty & Annette Bening has great chemistry AND breathtaking island views! I have no idea why this version is the one that gets all the kudos... it must be the Cary Grant factor. If you're going to get this one, get the other two as well. ;o)
  
  
• So far the best remake I've ever seen
  By AWEOR1WZSMBEZ on 2001-10-10
  I have to admit, this is the best remake I have ever seen, even better than its original version. & considering that this has been remade again in the 90's, I still say, this version is by far the best one.

  Mind you, Carey Grant & Deborah Kerr are not my contemporaries - more of my parents' -- but I was smitten with their story, their acting & their romantic settings.

  They only show that with love & determination, everything else is possible.
  
  

• Incredible - They don't make them like this anymore -Too Bad
  By AAS88JXS9LCAW on 2002-09-20
  This movie is a movie to watch over and over agian. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr's relationship is one that comes across so real. They get to know each other and fall in love in ways that todays movies just can't compare! The Grandmother is so sweet and her feelings are incredible! You feel what she feels in happiness and in sadness. There are very few movies that can get my emotions like this one. This movie is truely a tear jerker but one that you will feel better afterwards for watching it (a good cry is good for you every now and then). This is a movie that I will never get tired of watching.
  
  
• Perhaps the Best Romance Film
  By on 2003-11-20
  This movie is cinematic gold. It is the most beautiful, heart-wrenching story I have ever seen. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr make a perfect team. The film is full of so much hope for the two young lovers, however, something devastating happens that will change their lives forever. What happens at the end is so sad and beautiful that I couldn't stop crying. This is a wonderful, top-rate film that you must see.
  
  
• Romance Galore
  By A142W8NH9SRXS0 on 2005-04-03
  "An Affair to Remember" is a classic love story between playboy Nickie Ferrante and singer Terry McKay. Nickie is engaged to an American heiress and Terry is the girlfriend of a tycoon. Because of their commitments to other people, they refuse to fall in love. After a visit to Nickie's grandmother and secret photographs of the couple are sold on the ship where they meet, Nickie and Terry finally accept that they are in love. However, they still have their past romantic companions to think of.
  
  They decide to break off the past romances, get jobs and meet at the Empire State Building in six months. Nickie tries to become a painter and Terry is continuing her singing career. Breaking up with their significant other is difficult for Nickie and Terry, but they manage to do it within the time limit. They both rush to the Empire State Building, trying to get to the 102nd floor. However, an accident prevents Terry from seeing her beloved again. Nickie does not hear about the accident and so feels angry and betrayed that he did not see Terry where they were supposed to meet.
  
  Six more months pass slowly for our pair of lovebirds. Terry cannot walk anymore, but a helpful priest gets her a job as a teacher for a children's choir. Nickie is continuing his painting career while trying to deal with the anger and hurt he feels because he didn't see Terry at the Empire State Building. On Christmas Day, he finds her address in the phone book and comes to visit her.
  
  Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant are a wonderful pair. I have seen many of Cary Grant's movies, but I have only seen Deborah Kerr in "The King and I" and that was when I was younger. It is so nice to see a redhead on the screen in either a classic or modern film.
  
  There are two singing numbers with the children. The kids are cute, especially the younger ones, but I question the point of the singing numbers. The first number might have been to tell us what Terry was doing, so then was the point of the second? Personally, my favorite scene was when Terry and Nickie were visiting Nickie's French grandmother. The old woman was such a delight and the scene mattered a lot to Nickie and Terry's romance.
  
  As both the title and this review can easily say, this movie is not for those who scoff at romance, because that's practically all that's in the story. Love...romance..."it's been so long..." etc. For romantics, though, this is a must-see.
  
  
• A Classic Love Story
  By A2LJYV0DY56CV5 on 2005-09-01
  Guy meets girl, they fall in love and live happily ever after...but guy is promised to another an so is the girl. It was a great movie and I recommend it to anyone. Especially, for those nights alone with your hubby.
  
  

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