Product Description

THEY AGREED TO PUT THEIR ROMANCE TO THE TEST. BUT FATE TESTED THAT LOVE MORE THAN THEY EVER COULD.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2406 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2002-01-08
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 108 minutes

Features

• A romance about two people who meet on a cruise ship and find themselves falling in love, although they are involved with someone else. They promise to meet in six months only if they both still feel the same way about each other. What happens next surprises.Running Time: 108 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 Age: 085391316725 UPC: 085391316725 Man

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You can hear the big gears clank in this glossy, oh-so-watchable remake of the classic 1939 film (and the popular An Affair to Remember). Instead of updating the story with contemporary attitudes (as Warren Beatty did so successfully with Heaven Can Wait), this is a virtual carbon copy of the other films. The early scenes succeed as the two love birds (Beatty and real-life wife Annette Bening) banter with smart, fun talk. But the dramatics never really work in the modern era and romance doesn't blossom. Do we have to visit the Empire State Building again? Why couldn't the man be the victim? Everything looks wrapped for Christmas: a lovely score, nice use of old songs, rich designer clothes, familiar faces popping up everywhere, all surrounded by ace Conrad L. Hall's glowing, luscious light. It comes off like a big still-life, no zeal with two big exceptions: Garry Shandling's comic portrayal of lawyerhood as Beatty's agent and the reappearance of Katharine Hepburn. Seen for maybe 10 minutes, she packs more magic in her work than the entire rest of the movie. --Doug Thomas

From The New Yorker
Glenn Gordon Caron's movie is the second remake of Leo McCarey's 1939 romantic weeper (same title), which starred Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne; in 1957, McCarey filmed it again, as "An Affair to Remember," with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. In the latest version, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening do their best to simulate the charismatic swooning and mooning of their predecessors, but they don't bring a lot of conviction to their roles. No reason, really, why they should: this was cheesy, contrived material in 1939 and in 1957, and it still is. Everyone involved in this picture seems overqualified, from the writers (Robert Towne, with Beatty) to the cinematographer (Conrad Hall) to the production designer (the late Ferdinando Scarfiotti) to the large, pointlessly high-powered supporting cast (headed by Katharine Hepburn). There's an air of slumming about the whole enterprise, which kind of undercuts the romantic mood. The earth does not move. Also with Garry Shandling, Kate Capshaw, Pierce Brosnan, Chloe Webb, and Harold Ramis. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Romance Movies
I have seen An Affair to Remember long before I watched Love Affair. Altho "An Affair..." became one of my favorite classics (along w/ Gone with the Wind and Casablanca), I personally prefer Love Affair because i was more moved by it. the actors are brilliant, especially Ms. Bening, whose eyes captivate the audience. she just GLOWS in it and Mr Beatty is effortless in playing himself. they give the film a sense of reality. the movies basks the audiences in feeling of excitement, despair and hope of falling in love. it's a classic. so yeah, don't forget the box of tissue. i can't get enough of this film!

Benning is luminous but Katharine Hepburn steals this one
"Love Affair" is a remake of an "Affair to Remember" which was made popular because it was rather important in the plot of "Sleepless in Seattle." Just to make it more interesting, "Affair to Remember" was a remake of the original "Love Affair." Warren Beatty plays Mike Gambril, an ex-football star (an obvious allusion to Beatty's "Heaven Can Wait," which was a much more successful remake of an older film) who meets Terry McKay, played by Annette Benning, on a flight to Sydney. The plane is forced down and the two end up on a slow boat back to civilization. Both are engaged to other people, but since these two are married in real life and since very few people will have seen "Love Affair" without having seen or heard about the earlier versions, it is pretty clear this is not going to work out. But they want to take time to be sure, and so an ill-fated rendezvous at the Empire State Building is set up to confirm their destinies.

Katharine Hepburn's performance as Michael's Aunt Ginny is touted on the box cover, not just because "Love Affair" proved to be the final theatrical film in her storied career (she did appear in one more made for television movie), but because she steals the show in her brief scene. Hepburn is abetted in this effort by the local, a glorious beautiful South Pacific island as lush and as a green as any you have ever seen. There is also a wonderful set up for her scene, where Beatty asks Benning to go see his aunt and the couple take a series of scenic jaunts to the mountainside home, punctuated by Benning's comic asides. The role of the hero's aunt has always been a wonderful character piece for an older actress in every one of the film versions of this story, but certainly Hepburn is given more interesting things to say. For those who are shocked to hear Hepburn use foul language, you should remember that thirty years earlier she was probably the first person to say the word "fornication" on film in "The Lion in Winter." As Ginny explains her perspective on what type of bird Beatty happens to be and what that means for his future, there is no difference between Benning and her character, both of whom are clearly basking in Hepburn's presence.

As always, Beatty surrounds his main characters without outstanding supporting players, from Kate Capshaw and Pierce Brosnan as the original intendeds with whom no one can find fault, to Brenda Vaccaro and Paul Mazursky as other couple on the boat, to Garry Shandling and Harold Ramis as Mike's agent and financial adviser, to Chloe Webb as Terry's confidant after "the accident." If, in the final analysis, Beatty is not up to the pivotal moment in the climax where the pieces come together, then it is because the memory of Cary Grant's performance in the previous remake is just too overwhelming. Certainly Benning shines throughout the film, so there is no doubt why he is after her even if the opposite is established more by Beatty's reputation, wonderfully established in a series of news flashes in the film's opening, than by anything the actor actually does in the film itself. He looks good, but she looks great and you end up thinking Beatty remade this film not just because its story hits home to him but also because he really wants to show off his wife. Ultimately it is the women in this film who redeem it and make it more than what Annette and Warren did on their summer vacation, although the fact that the woman is the more appealing character this time is probably not enough to make it come out ahead of the Grant/Kerr version for most of us.

"Love Affair"
I loved every minute of this charming movie. The superb performers made this love story come alive for me. I really liked Katherine Hepburn as Warren Beatty's mother. She made me feel she was talking from the heart about her own true love that had passed away. The scene with Annette and Katherine was so honest. The movie was tasteful and is something I would be comfortable watching this movie with my mother-in-law or my adult children, in fact any age child. The love scene on the boat left to the viewer to play out in his or her own minds what was taking place, without it being shown on the screen. I loved the ending with Warren holding Annette. I don't usually like movies that are redone as well as the original, but this one I liked even better, it showed more truth and feeling. Bravo! Wonderful! Excellent! Thank You for making this exquisite love story.