Two features. In 'An Affair To Remember' a playboy and a mistress who meet on a cruise arrange to drop their respective partners, get a job and meet up in six months. In 'Love Is A... more
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Affair, directed by Leo McCarey, who also made the original. Grant and Kerr are strangers on an ocean liner, involved with other people, who can't resist each other for a shipboard romance. But they decide to test whether this is the real thing by agreeing to split up, then meeting in six months atop the Empire State Building. Is there anyone who can resist that set-up 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, Amazon.com
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
Affair, directed by Leo McCarey, who also made the original. Grant and Kerr are strangers on an ocean liner, involved with other people, who can't resist each other for a shipboard romance. But they decide to test whether this is the real thing by agreeing to split up, then meeting in six months atop the Empire State Building. Is there anyone who can resist that set-up 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, Amazon.com
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
An Affair To Remember / Love Is A Many Splendored Thing DVD
Main specs
Actor(s): Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher
Director(s): Leo McCarey, Henry King
Genre: Drama
Classification: Universal
Running Time: 3 hours 28 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: Two features. In 'An Affair To Remember' a playboy and a mistress who meet on a cruise arrange to drop their respective partners, get a job and meet up in six months. In 'Love Is A Many Splendored Thing' a female doctor falls in love with an American war reporter. Set in colourful Hong Kong during the troubled times of the Korean War.
DVD Description
Two features. In 'An Affair To Remember' a playboy and a mistress who meet on a cruise arrange to drop their respective partners, get a job and meet up in six months. In 'Love Is A Many Splendored Thing' a female doctor falls in love with an American war reporter. Set in colourful Hong Kong during the troubled times of the Korean War.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox
Advantages: Utterly original, hilarious, touching, fantastic performances. Disadvantages: May seem a little confusing for some.
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Advantages: Visually stunning. Acting. Ending Disadvantages: Inconsistency of accents no-one else tried as much as Norton
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They rekindle their love after meeting at one of Eisenheim's stage productions. However Sophie is under constant surveillence by Uhl (Paul Giamatti) the Chief Inspector and right hand man to the crown prince. Upon reporting their affair to the prince, the prince gets drunk and kills Sophie. Eisenheim is heart broken and disappears for a while and then reappears with the ability...
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Advantages: Very oddball Disadvantages: Very oddball - you'll either love it or hate
...“American Splendor” won a host of awards:
Fipresci award (Cannes Film Festival 2003)
Grand jury Prize (Sundance Film Festival 2003)
Guardian new directors award (Edinburgh Festival 2003)
It also got an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay.
For me, it was a real surprise to see a refreshingly different movie – one which blurs all the boundaries between fiction, biography, documentary, comedy, tragicomedy… where do you want me to stop?
Crucial to the whole thing is Paul Giamatti, who plays Harvey Pekar. For those of you who haven’t heard of him, he is the creator of a cult American comic (or should I say, graphic novel) called “American Splendor”. Which is where the title comes from.
He is a filing clerk, stuck in a boring job, but when it comes down to it, content to stay in his boring job, because it pays the bills...
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