An Affair to Remember (DVD, 2003)
This is the ultimate love story. I can't even imagine how many movies were made by copying this story line or some portion of it over the last fifty years. There isn't a woman alive who has ever watched this film with dry eyes; a lot of men too! This story begins on a ship from Europe to New York. Nikki Ferrante (Grant) is a world famous gigolo who has finally decided to marry and settle down, with a fortune of two-hundred million dollars, and a pretty good looking woman too. He is headed to America. Terry McKay is a singer and entertainer from Boston and she is engaged to very successful business man in New York City. They meet on the ship and instantly fall in love. After a short stop in the South of France to visit Nikki's grandmother, Terry finds out that Nikki is quite an accomplished artist. During this visit, she also sees the true Nikki, a genuine man with true emotions, and they realize that their worlds are about to be turned upside down. Over the next few days, as they approach America, they must make a decision. They plan to meet at the top of the Empire State Building in six months on Valentines Day. By this time, he can see if he can make a living as a painter, and she as an entertainer. Both have to end their current relationships, and that is difficult because both fiancees are committed. After six months the big day has finally come, and on the way to the meeting, Terry is struck by a car and crippled. Nikki waits for hours, and when she doesn't show up, believes that he has been jilted. He is a changed man, and no longer has it in him to be a womanizer. This hurt in his life has emotionally changed him, and now the real artist begins to bloom. Terry is wheelchair bound. Her condition can possibly be fixed by very expensive surgery, but she can't let her former fiancee pay for it. Nikki doesn't know about her condition, and she can't go to him unless she can walk to him. In the mean time, Nikki's grandmother has died, and a shawl that Terry admired when she visited, has been sent on to Nikki for her. Quite by accident, shortly before Christmas, the two run into eachother at the theater. He has no idea she needs a wheelchair. Just by friendship they are both there with their former fiancees, so you can just imagine what they both thought. After they leave, they are both devastated by the run in. Nikki decides to push the situation and looks Terry up in the phone book for her address. He is about to leave on a cruise back to Europe, and brings her the shawl from his grandmother. Both are truly exited and also uncomfortable by the meeting. Nikki acts as if he didn't show up for their meeting, and acts like he wants to apologize for standing her up. She on the other hand, acts like she was there and was outraged that he wasn't. He gives her the shawl and she is tearful that the lovely old woman was gone. As he is leaving, Nikki looks back and sees Terry sitting sideways on the sofa with the shawl over her head and shoulders. He remarks that he had once painted her like that, but never sold it, because it was too personal, but a woman came into the shop in a wheelchair and liked it, but had no money, so he told his clerk to give it to her. Now, all this clicks in his mind, and he rushes into her bedroom and there was the portrait on her wall. He now realizes what has happened. Together they decide to go forward and make a life together. . . And they lived happily ever after. . . Great Movie!!!Read full review
