An Affair to Remember

Hopeless romantics and broken hearts will love the movie An Affair to Remember directed by Leo McCarey. Carry Grant plays the lead role along with Deborah Kerr. It is a tale of the old cliché “it is better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all” Carry Grant plays Nickie Ferrante, a rich, very well educated man. Deborah Kerr plays Terry McKay, a ballroom singer.

Upon a cruise going from Europe to New York, these two meet when Grant sees her holding his cigarette case. That is the spark that ignites their passion for each other. After the long cruise they realize that they both have other lover waiting for them. They make a pact to meet on top of the Empire State building 6 months from then. If fate is so and they should be together they will see each other on top of the Empire State building.

As time goes on their love for each other grows the time apart is almost unbearable for them. Nickie awaits atop the building. Terry is running late on the preset time. She feels rushed to get there. She gets out of her cab to run to the building across the street. Tragedy happens as she is running across the street she gets hit by a car and is crippled for life. Nickie waits all night long until he is told to get down. They start living their lives. They get back together with their previous lovers and life goes on. until one day at the theater he sees her sitting in a chair and says “Hello” then leaves.

He had started painting again and a gallery had offered to sell his paintings. He finds her address and visits her. She is lying on the couch. He starts to question her about why she did not show up. She says she does not want to talk about it. as he is about to leave he said that someone had gone and bought one of his paintings. He does not come out and say it, but you can tell he knows, the owner of the gallery said that the person who bought the painting was in a wheelchair. Upon realizing this he runs into her room and saw the painting. Both too proud to admit their wrongs he realizes that she still loves him and he her. They hug and the movie ends.