- Actors: Courtney B. Vance, Kerry Fox, Leland Gantt, Ned Beatty, Bill Nunn
- Directors: Paul Seed
- Writers: Bryan Goluboff, Pablo F. Fenjves, Walter Bernstein
- Producers: Bill Shephard, Colin Callender, David M. Thompson, Harry Belafonte
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Odyssey
- VHS Release Date: 29 April 1996
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00004CS4B
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,743 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I was prepared for this to be a weepy, melodrama...but it is RIVETING! Courtney B. Vance is positively electrifying in this role of the black soldier. I don't want to ruin the ending for anyone buying this, but if you do, be prepared to have this film provoke some thought and discussion. If the film has a weakness, it is that Kerry Fox plays the female lead rather wimpy and weak....perhaps this character flaw makes her actions in the film believeable, although given those traits is was hard for me to imagine Vance's character falling in love with her. One would think he'd find her somewhat shallow and self-absorbed...But, nevertheless, it's a teriffic film that one should see.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Race, War and Love
26 Aug 2003
In "The Affair" Courtney Vance gives a strong performance as a Black G. I. stationed in England during W. W. II who meets and falls in love with a married Englishwoman. It is a compelling story because it dramatizes how dangerous love, whether extra-marital or not, could be between a Black man and a White Woman. It should be recalled that during W. W. II black and white soldiers in the U. S. still served in separate divisions. Racism, though somewhat less pronounced, still was rampant within the U. S. military and with that came the usual strong prohibition against sexual relations between the races. However, war, perhaps more than any other setting, allows for all kinds of situations. It was within this volatile mix of war and entrenched racism that a Black G. I. meets and falls in love with a White Englishwoman.
This is a movie that engages its audience at many levels. It can be seen as a Romeo and Juliet type of love tragedy, as a cautionary tale of the effects of war on both soldiers and civilians alike or, finally, as a reminder of the long road that U. S. society had yet to travel on the road to racial equality. Unfortunately, U. S. society is still on this road and has not yet reached its end. Perhaps, fine movies such as this one can spur faster movement toward the end of the road where there lies the racial equality that MLK spoke of forty years ago.
This is a movie that engages its audience at many levels. It can be seen as a Romeo and Juliet type of love tragedy, as a cautionary tale of the effects of war on both soldiers and civilians alike or, finally, as a reminder of the long road that U. S. society had yet to travel on the road to racial equality. Unfortunately, U. S. society is still on this road and has not yet reached its end. Perhaps, fine movies such as this one can spur faster movement toward the end of the road where there lies the racial equality that MLK spoke of forty years ago.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
This is an excellant movie of love and betrayal
29 Aug 1999
Vance stars as WWII black G.I. When the G.I.s are stationed in England he meets a married Englishwoman on the welcoming committee. They see more and more of each other until it becomes an affair turned to love. One night when the Englishwomans husband comes back from the war, they go to see his parents. The woman leaves early to see Vance at there usual meeting spot. But, they are found out by the husband and a plot so thick with hate is revealed. The ending to this movie is one I will never forget, of deciet, love, honor, and revenge.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I saw this a couple years ago and it's one of my favorites..
24 Feb 2002
The affair between the English wife and the American soldier was probably one of the best, and saddest, stories I've watched in a long time. The wife must choose between keeping her affair a secret and condemning the man she's fallen in love with or risk losing her son. It's a hard choice, glad I don't have to make it.
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