The Affair (1995)

Such a frustrating disappointment

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Standard late night cable soft core fare, with lots of pretty people that was relatively tame on the sex, and heavy on an implausible cheesy story.Nothing makes me laugh more than things that happen in this genre of film that could never, EVER, happen in real life. This film certainly had a few of those.The very hot albeit naive girl, who is as innocent as a newborn, and would never do anything the least bit adventurous, always having as a best friend one who can claim to doing both football teams, the mascot and the band is one. I also found humor in their jogging between cigarette breaks. The dumb and equally naive guy who is as gullible as they come, but he loves his girl, even though he is obligated not to trust her for plot development, had me shaking my head. Can someone also tell me how he survives a motorcycle crash, takes a dirt nap on an embankment for a while to sober up and drives off without a scratch to his hunky head? The girl selling car wash tickets had me rolling, and her sole purpose was simply so that she could turn up in the end of the film, showing us that our rich diva who will not be denied what she wants, indeed can get what she wants. Even turning an innocent college sophomore into what is now no doubt a wild raging nympho lesbian sex slave.The acting.. ehhh, these people aren't cast for their acting abilities, give them credit for trying. It is refreshing though to not see the plastic and surgically implanted Barbie dolls that permeate these types of films now.

This is indeed a very classy soft core erotica film. There are several sexy women in it.It has a decent plot and is well acted and directed. The simulated sex scenes are well done. Too bad it has not appeared as a VHS or DVD. It deserves that treatment, I think

colour me surprised. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it. You see these b-grade sex movies on late night cable and you expect soft core porn, bad acting and bad (or non existant) plots.What I found was one out of three. Yes, it was soft core porn, but not too gratuitious. It had a plot. It had characters. I'm not saying this is American Beauty or anything, but for what it was I quite enjoyed it.As I was watching, it occurred to me that this is what porn movies should be like. I mean it had naked women, it had plenty of sex, but it also had romance, story and character. If the sex was a bit more graphic, it would have been perfect.The acting was entirely adequate for what it was. No one is going to win as oscar off this, but they said their lines and had expressions enough to get the point across. Oh yes, and the women were apropriately beautiful and naked.I really give my thumbs up to the writer and director of this movie for not making a (too) sleazy or cheap piece of trash.Oh, and one final thing: what was up with the sorority girl selling tickets. Why was she there?