Glenn Gordon Caron
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At heart, it’s an addiction drama in the vein of “Clean and Sober” or “The Boost,” as Whitaker retreats deeper and deeper into the bottle.
…hink of “Flight” as Michael Crichton’s book “Airframe” crossed with the Michael Keaton movie “Clean and Sober,” with some talk about God awkwardly sprinkled throughout.
Promising to meet at the top of the Empire State Building in three months (yes, just like "Sleepless in Seattle," which paid homage to the Grant-Kerr movie), they anticipate the love of their lives.
A remake of both 1939’s Love Affair and its remake, the 1957 romantic gusher An Affair to Remember (the film that inspired Sleepless in Seattle‘s moony-eyed fetishization of the Empire State Building), the new, high-glitz Love Affair is an eerie contradiction, a cornball potboiler sprinkled with media-age razzle-dazzle.
Familiar, that is, to anyone who has seen the first "Love Affair," "An Affair to Remember" or "Sleepless in Seattle."
Oblivion must be the only science-fiction film that borrows substantially from I Am Legend, WALL-E and Sleepless in Seattle — itself a remake of 1957’s An Affair to Remember, which was a remake of 1939’s Love Affair.
Belgian Director Felix Van Groeningen (“The Broken Circle Breakdown“) combines those volumes in “Beautiful Boy,” a painfully sincere picture that does its very best to dodge the conventions of the rehab movie – established in “Clean and Sober,” “28 Days,” “Permanent MidnightTIFF and more made-for-TV efforts than you can shake an AA chip at – but never quite forges its own path.
Director Glenn Gordon Caron, for whom Hall shot Love Affair, identifies a melancholy in Hall that translated to his images, which was a real eureka moment for me in terms of pinpointing what Mendes's films have lacked in Hall's absence.
Then, more decorously, there were the non-adulterous, pathos-ridden romantic complications of Leo McCarey’s Love Affair (1939), with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, and his own 1957 remake of the film with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant, retitled An Affair to Remember.
Set It Up feels like a return to that era, when smaller-scale star vehicles like Picture Perfect , You’ve Got Mail , One Fine Day , and While You Were Sleeping were regular fixtures at the multiplex.