Love Affair | | Cast : | Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn | | Director : | Glenn Gordon Caron | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 21, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | January 08, 2002 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | February 28, 2005 | | Summary | Doesn't hold a candle to the original | Content
 | This is a remake of An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah and it does not work. Some movies just should not be remade. The ONLY thing good about this movie is Katharine Hepburn's appearance. Get the original! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 17, 2005 | | Summary | A pleasant enough trifle | Content
| I remember the legend of Warren Beatty trying to sweet talk Katharine Hepburn into appearing in this remake of AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER, which is in every way a better picture. Hepburn made some outrageous demands and Beatty (as producer) just smiled and gave in everywhere, for he knew that he would need one last gasp of the old Hollywood to give this remake what luster it had, the way that RAGTIME floated by on the coattails of Jimmy Cagney's great return to the screen.
Earlier in his career Beatty had successfully transplanted HERE COMES Mr. JORDAN and made it into HEAVEN CAN WAIT, displaying a casualness about the title that made some of us wince (for HEAVEN CAN WAIT was a different old movie, all its own, and totally different than the reincarnation plot line Beatty and Buck Henry "borrowed" from the old Robert Montgomery classic. But turning AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER back to LOVE AFFAIR (its original title) Beatty came a cropper. Parts of the movie are cute, and Bening is a wonderful actress, and almost a star, but it needed someone (I think) who is 100 per cent a star and she's only about 95 per cent.
This was the first time that his fans noticed the heavy gauze veils through which our aging Adonis Warren was now forced to photograph himself, otherwise he'd look rotten as old scungilli. In some shots the gauze droops a little and it looks like another actor entirely, it's disconcerting. Director Glenn Gordon Caron had previously worked some chemistry magic between feuding co-stars Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis, actually making them look as though they could tolerate each other, on their TV series MOONLIGHTING, but the magic isn't there for LOVE AFFAIR. Is it true what they say, that box office dwindles when you put a married couple in as the leads of your film? Seems like it here. What a disappointment. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 10, 2004 | | Summary | 2 ships in the night | Content
| A favorite romance movie of mine. 2 high class people meet on a ship, both engaged to other people, find themselves very attracted to each other. 1 thing I will never forget: when Warren Beatty takes Annette Benning to visit his aunt Katherin Hepburn on a remote island, through conversation, Hepburn asks Benning if she's happy, & Benning says she ought to be, she's getting everything she ever wanted. & Hepburn says, the trick is to still want it after you get it. I like movies that give you something to think about. After there chance meeting on the ship, do these 2 marry their fiances? Or, will they meet again? 2 worlds collide in this little cheerful/tearful romance. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 13, 2004 | | Summary | KATE HEPBURN MAKES THIS WATCHABLE | Content
| I have not seen the Cary Grant version so I had little to compare this predictable chickflick with. In fact the first 40 minutes or so can pretty much be skipped. I'd say the film even starts when Katherine Hepburn appears on the scene. She lends the movie its spine, the very reason our two protagonists come together, and the movie is a very decent romantic story from then on, with an occasional tinge of humor. Benning in particular is stunning with her understated rendition of a woman in emotional doldrums. A worthy rental overall, but not exactly a spectacular movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 07, 2004 | | Summary | One of the Best Romance Movies | Content
| 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! |
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