
As tears well up in her eyes, once-happy Julie listens to her favourite songs, reminiscing about the ups and downs of her life. Indeed, Julie and her husband, Roger, have always been there for each other through thick and thin. However, it seems that the love is gone. But, before leaving the house, Julie decides to listen to their old, memory-laden records for one last time, eager to relive all the fundamental stages of her love story with Roger. Now, a flurry of mixed emotio... (Full plot summary below)
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As tears well up in her eyes, once-happy Julie listens to her favourite songs, reminiscing about the ups and downs of her life. Indeed, Julie and her husband, Roger, have always been there for each other through thick and thin. However, it seems that the love is gone. But, before leaving the house, Julie decides to listen to their old, memory-laden records for one last time, eager to relive all the fundamental stages of her love story with Roger. Now, a flurry of mixed emotions overcomes Julie. Is all hope lost?
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyGeorge Stevens' sentimental melodrama is extremely well acted by Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, who received for his part of a depressed father the first of his two Oscar nominations. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumLesser seen Cary Grant, but very compelling. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherIf you are prone to easy weeping, you might even take along a washtub. |
| VarietyVariety StaffGeorge Stevens' direction and the excellence of the stars' playing make the film. |
| User Review♥Denise BThey FINNALY got a baby and she dies...then the husband goes insane,....now shes a widdow with no kids or company!!!!!!!!11 |
| User ReviewAngela LBravo! An amazing movie! Cried like a baby lol |
| User ReviewDuane BA break from romantic follies which called for serious acting talents. Cary Grant is paired with Irene Dunne yet again! They go together well but seem to have forgotten it in theis film. |
| User ReviewLouis FOMG this is the ultimate Kleenex movie. I love how the movie uses the music to go back to points in the relationship between Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. I like their chemistry in this movie, and I like to see Cary Grant playing something other than the suave bachelor. For those who think Cary Grant cannot act, take a look at the scene where he is in the judge's office before their child is about to be taken away from them--but be sure you have about 10 Kleenex's on hand before you watch it. Gosh this movie is sweet and so very sad but ends with hope, it's one of those you need to plug in on a rainy Sunday. |
| User ReviewPaul ZCary Grant and Irene Dunne were the cream of the crop of silver screen romantic duos. Drawn out by the incredibly sensitive nature of George Stevens's direction, they reveal great versatility in the dynamics of their on-screen repertoire, playing a couple who meet, suffer tragedy, and experience great highs and exasperation alike. What I find funny is that I do not want to describe the story very much at all for fear of diminishing the effect of going through the experience freshly without any knowledge of it, but the film is nothing more than a film about a middle-class couple trying to start a family! That's the movie! There is nothing dull about it, either. Stevens, perhaps the ablest filmmaker of the era next to Hitchcock, saw the profundity and catharsis in it, and the receptive, insightful control and room to allow his particularly personal vision to make it feel like the experience cinema is meant to be, a chronicle ensuing the life-changing happening of falling in love, and the innate personal longing to make a family and a home with the one you worship, and the trials and grief that can be as intense, though never really more, than the pleasure and gratification it begets. There is not a single insincere frame in this picture. Even its story being told in flashbacks is done to remind us how significant music is as it synchronizes the soundtrack to our lives. In effect, whenever music plays in the film, and it is predominantly source music rather than underscoring, there is a magnified reaction on our parts. Moreover Grant and Dunne's urge to settle down in a traditional American lifestyle is a minor supplement to their purely individual intentions behind it. Their innocence, their artless simplicity, is refreshing. The screenwriters, Martha Cheavens and Morrie Ryskind, have unspoiled grace in their phasing of the sequence of narrative that you become interactive with the characters. Aside from the inimitable lovability of the beautiful, graceful, flexible, hilarious, touching and gifted Irene Dunne, Cary Grant is pitch-perfect in his entirely assured performance, especially during his moving monologue in front of a judge. The energy between the two create such endearing realism. You become aware of yourself laughing out loud with the day-to-day surprises and farcical obstacles with which they get involved. |
| User ReviewMallory BThe Best & Saddest movie, have a box of Puffs close by |