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| LOVE AFFAIR (1994) |
A Mulholland Production
A Warner Bros. Release
Technicolor, 108 minutes
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CAST
Mike Gambril: Warren Beatty
Terry McKay: Annette Bening
Aunt Ginny: Katharine Hepburn
Kip DeMay: Garry Shandling
Tina Wilson: Chloe Webb
Ken Allen: Pierce Brosnan
Lynn Weaver: Kate Capshaw
Nora Stillman: Brenda Vaccaro
Herb Stillman: Paul Mazursky
Anthony Rotundo: Glenn Shadix
Robert Crosley: Barry Miller
Sheldon Blumenthal: Harold Ramis
Lorraine: Linda Wallem
SSA Flight Attendant: Meagan Fay
Wally Tripp: Ray Girardin
Ben: John Hostetter
Ship Captain: Elya Baskin
Second Officer: Boris Krutonog
Cable Officer: Savely Kramarov
Russian Businessman: Oleg Vidov
Marissa: Taylor Dayne
Martha: Carey Lowell
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CREDITS
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Producer: Warren Beatty
Screenwriter: Robert Towne, Warren Beatty
Photographer: Conrad L. Hall
Art Design: Edward Richardson
Production Designer: Ferdinando Scarfiotti
Set Designer: Al Manzer, James Murakami, Dan May
Editor: Robert C. Jones
Musical Score: Ennio Morricone
Costumes: Milena Canonero
Makeup: Valli O'Reilly, Julie Hewett
Special effects: John Richardson
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SYNOPSIS
Mike Gambril is an ex-football player and a charming lothario. Terry McKay is an attractive, upscale singer. Mike and Terry are engaged -- but not to each other. They meet when seated next to each other on an airplane, which is forced to make an emergency landing, leading to a romantic cruise on an ocean liner. Realizing they might have found a soulmate in each other, Mike and Terry decide to meet again in three months, atop the Empire State Building. But when an accident leaves Terry crippled, the chances of their meeting again is suddenly in doubt.
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CRITIQUES
"Hepburn's scenes steal, and almost stop, the show. She has been old for a long time (she is in her 80s), but this is the first time she has also looked small and frail. Yet the magnificent spirit is still there, and the romantic fire, and she's right for this eccentric old woman, living alone in unimaginable splendor, and feeling an instant connection with the young women her nephew has brought home."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Warren Beatty's pious, academic remake of Leo McCarey's 1939 masterpiece, which starred Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne and was remade by McCarey himself in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. As love stories both were examples of Hollywood's best, but each was tied so closely to its period and to McCarey's personality that this 1994 version seems bent out of shape in comparison. Starring Beatty and his wife Annette Bening, it eliminates all the references to Catholicism, gives the playboy hero an occupation (former football star turned sportscaster), and adds some self-referential details about Beatty as an aging, well-to-do bedroom hopper who decides to go straight after he meets the love of his life, none of which helps much. Beatty's performance in particular seems flat and uninflected compared to Boyer's and Grant's. The credited director is Glenn Gordon Caron, but Beatty - who produced, collaborated with Robert Towne on adapting the original (by McCarey, Mildred Cram, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Delmer Daves), and controlled the final cut - seems responsible for the overall dullness of this vanity production. Katharine Hepburn was nudged out of retirement to play the hero's aunt in one moving and pivotal scene, but most of the rest is fancy filler."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"This remake of Leo McCarey's An Affair to Remember (1957), the vacuous weepie to which Sleepless in Seattle tipped its cap, went straight to video in Britain after a dismal outing in the US. As 'written' by Warren Beatty and Robert Towne - the updating aside, it's a virtual carbon copy of McCarey's film - the tale of a hesitant romance between Beatty's playboy sports celeb and Bening's music teacher looks little more than a vanity project. Impossibly exotic and glossy, its emotional dynamics make no sense today, so that all we're left with is a trite celebration of Warren and Annette as lovers made for each other. Only one scene works: when Beatty confronts Bening over why she failed to meet him as planned at the Empire State Building, his playing of humiliation, bruised vanity, confusion and uneasy bluffing sets the screen alight for a minute or two. But that's it. Even Hepburn is wasted."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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Katharine Hepburn, Warren Beatty
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