An Affair to Remember, director
Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film
Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable.
Cary Grant and
Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during an ocean voyage. To test the depth of their commitment to each other, Grant and Kerr promise that, if they're still in love at the end of six months, they will meet again at the top of the Empire State Building. Clips from An Affair to Remember were used as "reference points" throughout the 1993 romantic comedy
Sleepless in Seattle, which likewise concluded atop the Empire State Building. Disproving the theory that "Third Time's the Charm,"
Warren Beatty attempted to remake
Affair to Remember, again titled
Love Affair, in 1994. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide