AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER-
UGH!! Is the only word I can use to describe this slow paced mellow drama starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. The movie starts on an absurd note with a TV gossip shows announcing the engagement of professional playboy Nickie Ferrante and millionairess Lois Clark. Ferrante goes on a cruise where he meets Terry McKay, an obnoxious single woman also sailing on the "Love Boat". The two became center of attention because of Ferrante's celebrity status, later the two middle aged couple fall in love and promised to meet on top of the Empire State building six months later to marry.
They need six months because she needs time to break up with her boyfriend of five years and for him to paint so he can become a famous artist to support her.
The story takes on a terrible turn when McKay gets hit by a car on her to the Empire State building, leaving Grant waiting for her on top of the world during a thunderstorm. So what's a guy to do but to go on a painting bingde but by this time no one cares anymore.
You just learn to hate the characters more and more as the movie go on. There is scene where you meet Grant's annoying grandmother who lives on top of a hill in France where she hides and pray all day long. There she pushes Kerr to fall in love with her grandson totally disregarding the fact her grandson already engaged to someone else.
After being crippled from the waist down from the accident, Terry McKay go into seclusion by being a music teacher at a inner city school. How can you tell it was an inner city school? Because you see one of the parents talking to Kerr in one of those "DEM DEESE AND DOH's" accents. There are several boring musical scenes in the movie, one with Kerr singing in a nightclub and two featuring the kids in the school.
The couple took forever to reunite and then it took another enternity before they come clean to tell the truth about what happened on that fateful day.
I have never seen Cary Grant more annoying and less charming in any movie than this one, I think by this time he has already become a caricature of himself, as for Kerr there is nothing attractive her character. The scene at top of the Empire state where Grant realizes she stood him up, there was a glimmer of hope in me that he would throw himself off.