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Overrated and overhyped

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I like this movie because I love the actor S. Collins.The movie is also lightweight enough that I can have it on TV in the background whilst working (as I work from home). It's not quite old enough for me to need to watch it to see the furniture design and clothing of the time since I have furniture AND clothing from that era right now (and the hairdo, :)).The only thing I don't have are the big sunglasses (actually I DO have them but I don't know where they are packed away).Well, back to work, while this movie plays in the background, right now.

My wife and I watched this movie when it first came out and loved it. Stephen Collins and Kathleen Quinlan have wonderful chemistry together. It is a great love story. The scene where he has her picture blown up on a truck is hilarious when he tells her the scar on his forehead due to an accident is nothing and he has forgotten all about it. She is furious, goes off on him, and drives away, leaving him wondering what he has ever done to this woman. Until he said that he was finally getting through to her after striking out so many times in his attempt to get her to work for his firm. We have been hoping that this movie would come out on DVD. When it did we purchased it. It arrived today and upon watching it, we still love it as much as when we first saw it. If you like a love story, watch this movie!

Love, love, love this movie. One of my favorite rainy Sunday afternoon treats. I even have the book which was written by Nora Roberts based on the screenplay so it follows the movie very closely. I remember seeing it when I was 27 and I will be 57 this month, so it has been a 30 year "love affair". Stephen Collins is every body's boy next door.It was on television late, late, late recently and I watched it again and taped it even though I have purchased a DVD copy and was gifted a VHS copy years ago! Ha, ha! Never know when you'll need a backup I guess! Ha, ha! The plot is very simple and the characters are very straight forward. The acting is probably a 7 or 8. I especially enjoyed the music and found it very haunting. The locations were beautiful.

The story isn't really unique, but it's the assemblage of players that makes it work so well. It's a love story, a story of deceit and a story of revenge, of sorts, that relies on more than one promise. The beginning is a montage that shows the viewer the uncomplicated, yet intense, love between two young college students. Enter the complication, a near-fatal car crash.Then, enter mother. Beatrice Straight plays "matron" so well, it almost creeps one out. Authoritative, hard, selfish. One has to believe that the two lovers, Nancy (Kathleen Quinlan) and Michael (Stephen Collins) just couldn't be stopped had the car accident not shattered their lives. Fate intervened, choices had to be made, situations were controlled with undeniable uncaring. But life has a way of stepping in; destiny will not be driven from its path. The cast is perfect and the music is obvious, but not intrusive. This is a film I've watched several times and have never been disappointed in.