Oh, it's nobody's fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there...
There is a subgenre to romance films that goes something like this: Over a short period of time, two people meet and fall in love despite obvious differences or being engaged/married/coupled with other people, then agree to reunite at a later time, then drama abounds as they do/do not meet up and the many situations surrounding their rendevouz. I LOVE movies in this subtype (almost as much as bank robbin' movies), but recently they have been ruined by the teenie bopper, vampire, or Nick Sparks subgenres crossing over. If you feel this way too, then I urge you to go back and revist (or visit for the first time) one of the grandaddys of this type of film: An Affair to Remember.
Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star as a couple who meets while taking a cruise with their fiance's. They end up falling in love and schedule a meeting 6 months later at the Empire State Building (because its the closes thing to heaven in New York). I don't want to spoil anything else for you, but I will say that their climactic reunion (seen above) will do wonders for any dry or itchy eyes you may be having.
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