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An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember

Drama · Romance · 1957

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Movie details

An Affair to Remember

“In Italy... on the Mediterranean... across an ocean... and all over New York!”

1957 Drama · Romance 1h 51m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.4 / 10

35.6K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

65 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

71 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.4 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

Who fights over An Affair to Remember?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Leo McCarey

Written by

Mildred Cram · Delmer Daves · Leo McCarey

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Nickie Ferrante

Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

Terry McKay

Richard Denning

Richard Denning

Kenneth Bradley

Neva Patterson

Neva Patterson

Lois Clark

Cathleen Nesbitt

Cathleen Nesbitt

Grandmother Janou

Robert Q. Lewis

Robert Q. Lewis

Robert Q. Lewis

Charles Watts

Charles Watts

Ned Hathaway

Court is in session

Put An Affair to Remember on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.