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Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

bregund What's not to love, a shoplifter goes on christmas break with the prosecutor who's trying to put her in jail, sounds like a pile of laughs, right? While they had terrific chemistry in Double Indemnity, in this film Fred Macmurray and Barbara Stanwyck are both pretty awkward and their timing is off. Scenes that should be laugh-out-loud hilarious are played for drama, and it just doesn't work. For example, the scene in the pasture as they're surrounded by cows could have been mined for a million laughs, but the director just lets it sit there, one among many wasted opportunities for real entertainment. The one moment of high drama that works, however, is when she goes back home to see her mother...where the audience expects a tearful reunion, the opposite happens, as mom proceeds to tear her a new one. It's a heart-wrenching scene, one that we can read on Stanwyck's marvelously expressive face. By the end of the film, after having spent the week with John's family, her character has learned some lessons about taking responsibility for her actions and finds some redemption.I found myself wishing that the pace of the film were a little faster, that the natural animosity between the characters had been more pronounced in the style of all mismatched buddy films, but this one is a romance trying to be a comedy, and not the other way around. In short, the film doesn't know what it wants to be, even the movie poster on IMDB is confusing: is it a comedy or a romance? Make up your mind.

writers_reign Only good things to say about this charmer with a fine pedigree, an Original from Preston Sturges (with a nod to one of his earlier screenplays, Easy Living, via the title song, performed here in a nightclub), helming from Mitchell Liesen and emoting from a cast led by Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. It's good to see two fine supporting actresses Beulah Bondi and Elizabeth Patterson get so much screen time in the central portion. We - or at least I - tend to associate Mitchell Liesen with sophisticated comedies with sumptuous set dressings so this takes him out of that comfort zone yet he still turns in a deft job. Okay, it's sentimental and hoky but none the worse for that. Well worth your time.

sammysdad97 I have a soft spot for late '30's and '40's films. 65 to 80 years of nights (remembered and unremembered) have passed since these films were made - 72 years and counting for this one. The actresses and actors - some born just after the Civil War, others so impossibly young then that it's hard to believe they would be over 100 now - and the America itself shown in this cinematic B&W snapshot all continue to fascinate.A film like "Remember the Night" will thus grab me at the get go with a marvelously attractive Barbara Stanwyck to set the hook and a great ensemble cast to keep my interest when the story itself is less than compelling. I won't recap the plot - you can get that many times elsewhere in these reviews. What I will do is promise you that if you will give this movie even half your attention you will be rewarded. I can also promise you that if you view this with anyone under the age of 20 you will have to explain the middle American reality that underpins the entire movie and gives it its power and its poignancy. It's not just a good Christmas movie (though it is that), it is a good movie set around Christmas time.Also, a big thank you to THIS-TV for showing this classic as I would never have seen it otherwise. I encourage any of you reading this who lives in a larger TV market and doesn't have cable (20% of households still don't) to check an internet source (I use TV Guide.com) in your area and see if THIS-TV or Antenna-TV are available on some broadcast sub-channel in your market. The digital conversion 2 years ago has had one benefit - these sub-channels (THIS-TV is 2.2 in Denver, AntennaTV is 31.2) which are now providing all households with a TV with a digital tuner to see a lot of classic movies which we haven't been able to see anywhere for many, many years. In the case of a movie like "Remember the Night" which only recently became available on DVD (in October 2010) this may be your most economical way to see it. These new sub-channel networks are especially good at showing movies from the '30's through the '50's which seem to have dropped off the cable TV map as well. (Note to cable TV subscribers: buy a cheap antenna and use your set's digital tuner. You can see these stations too!) Check them out and enjoy this movie and others like it.

cstotlar-1 Preston Sturges' movies have seldom interested me. A few he directed at the beginning of his career I did enjoy however. The Eddie Bracken films to me were ugly, obvious and completely unsubtle. When I realized that this film was scripted by him, only Mitchell Leisen's name induced me to see it through and was I ever happy I did. This is not a plot-driven nor a gimmick-driven movie at all but rather a character study and a beautiful one at that. MacMurray and Stanwyck made perfect sense her and the absence of humor in general was welcome and gentle. Nothing artificial stands in the way of this love story which casts a spell entirely of its own from beginning to end. I highly recommend it as a welcome antidote to those Chrastmas films good and bad that invade our screens every year.Curtis Stotlar