Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Not being into melodrama, I've never had a desire to see "An Affair To Remember" & my familiarity was limited to its homage in ""Sleepless In Seattle". Its been awhile, but ironically on my own last sleepless night in Leon, Iowa I decided to listen in the dark to some old radio dramas by the Screen Guild Theater from the 1940's. My spider sense should have been tingling venturing into the third randomly selected broadcast in a row that involved cruises to or from Rio, but found myself listening to an adaption of 1939's "Love Affair" & becoming increasingly obsessing on the idea that a disabled woman should choose to hide herself away, that it was somehow noble to let someone she loved think she'd disappeared rather than burden him with something apparently considered to be a darker fate. All is well with the mandatory happy ending where she says, "If you can paint, I can walk.", his own odyssey during their separation involving this mastery. Perhaps this was an obvious equation in 1941, but its lost on me. I'd like to think this was a reflection of an era when in Germany a few years earlier the disabled were the first to be euthanized & those unable to work were later earned their own insignia equivalent to the yellow star in their death camps, yet Meg Ryan equally cherishes this nobility of self-negation in 1993 as well. Is disability then some metaphor for feelings of worthlessness? Let me know if I missed the point.

This is a good movie, but compared to its remake -- "An Affair To Remember" -- it runs second. The difference? 18 years and Cary Grant.In terms of plot, both films are virtually the same. In fact, much of the dialog is the same. After all, it was the same director -- Leo McCarey. More often than not, I prefer the original over remakes, but in this case, I do feel "An Affair To Remember" is the better film. Cary Grant could clearly out Boyer Charles Boyer, but that's not to say that Boyer's performance here is not good. It is. And, although I really like Deborah Kerr and her "snappier" attitude in "An Affair To Remember", I think that Irene Dunne is better suited for the role, so in that sense, Dunne shines more brightly than Kerr. I could have also seen Claudette Colbert in the lead role.In terms of supporting cast, Cathleen Nesbitt in the remake was a better grandmother than Maria Ouspenskaya in the original, though the latter has certainly played a great many memorable roles in her career, and the former I was not familiar with at all until the remake. Ouspenskaya is very good here.Perhaps it may seem unfair to simply compare the two films, but after all, the director remade his original almost scene by scene, with close to the same dialog. How can one not make comparisons? Watching all three versions of this film is interesting, but the Grant-Kerr version is undoubtedly the classiest...and in color!Both this and the Grant-Kerr version are excellent films, but only the Grant-Kerr version is on my DVD shelf.

An American woman and a French playboy fall in love on a ship and plan to meet in six months at the Empire State Building. McCarey remade the film in 1957, a version that is much more popular, but the original is as good if not better. Dunne is fabulous as the woman, bringing more warmth and a different sensibility to the role than Deborah Kerr did in the remake. Being French and being 40 years old at the time, Boyer is better suited to the role of the playboy than a 54-year old Cary Grant in the later film. Ironically, McCarey's film previous to this, "The Awful Truth," starred Dunne and Grant. Sadly, no good prints of this film have survived, making it difficult to fully appreciate its charms.

In the film Love Affair, Terry and Michel fall in love while on a cruise. I like how when they were at the bar Terry didn't know Michel had been there before her and order the exact same drink. As they were sitting there other people sat next to them and try to get information on them. The scene I like the most is when they get off the boat to see his grandmother. I like how the camera shows the scenery outside of the grandmas house. When they are at the house before they leave Michel wants his grandma to play the piano as that is being done you see the camera going from person to person showing the emotions on their faces. Cause Terry starts to sing. I liked how the scenery was showed in NYC looking up at the tower of where Terry was suppose to get married. And then all of sudden you hear screaming and people running. As you are watching you have no idea what happened. It was sad that she didn't tell him and just made him think he was stood up. But in the end he finds out what really happened to her just by thinking of the picture he made of her.