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An Affair to Remember

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An Affair to Remember (1957)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:16

Rotten:9

Average Rating:6.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he... In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman--and she's engaged to the wrong man. They finally agree to spend six months apart; if they still love each other at the end of that time, they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building. But the path of true love does not always run smooth, and tragedy threatens to tear the couple apart. Leo McCarey directed both the original (LOVE AFFAIR) and this remake, and viewers often amiably battle over which film is the more touching. This much-loved film features the Academy Award-nominated title song and a splendid supporting cast. [More]

Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Cathleen Nesbitt, Neva Patterson

Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Cathleen Nesbitt, Neva Patterson, Richard Denning, Fortunio Bonanova

Director: Leo McCarey

Director: Leo McCarey
Producer: Jerry Wald
Story: Mildred Cram
Composer: Hugo Friedhofer

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Reviews for An Affair to Remember

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03/12/04
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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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10/15/03
Jurgen Fauth
Jurgen Fauth
About.com

Romantic and over the top, but Cary Grant excels in these situations and it almost saves a movie that seemed to lose its way.

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09/24/03
Jamie Gillies
Jamie Gillies
Apollo Guide

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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan...have nothing on Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

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12/18/02
Josh Gilchrist
Josh Gilchrist
Billings Outpost (Montana)

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05/19/05
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Cheapened by the many references in Sleepless in Seattle, An Affair to Remember plays much better than you might imagine.

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10/19/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

...the kind of film you don't see much anymore, an old-fashioned love story.

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02/16/03
John J. Puccio
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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

surprisingly tedious

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01/28/08
Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
Filmcritic.com

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02/04/05
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

Soap opera-ish Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr starrer still tugs at heart.

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01/04/05
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

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09/05/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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07/23/04
Jon Niccum
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

Good, but a little too much. McCarey's 1939 version was trimmer and better.

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08/27/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Mr. McCarey's direction is unpropitiously and unaccountably slow.

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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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In spite of the flaws and could-have-beens, there is no denying that the final scene of the movie is very touching, albeit in an utterly mawkish and obscenely sentimental way.

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04/04/03
Matt Bailey
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12/23/03
Frank Swietek
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