Remembrance of Love

In Remembrance of Love, Kirk Douglas and his daughter Pam Dawber travel to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. She's a journalist and interested in learning everyone's stories, but he's very closed-lipped about his experiences. Turns out, he fell in love before the war, and he's hoping to find his sweetheart at the reunion.

As you might be able to tell from the title, this movie is all about romance. Pam falls for Yoram Gal, and Kirk's romance with Chana Eden is two-fold, told in the present and through flashbacks of the past. The cutest parts of the movie are the flashbacks, since Kirk's son Eric Douglas plays his younger self! Eric and Irit Frank are really cute together, which is necessary for the audience to care and root for them when they grow older.

If you like these types of movies, or books like The Lost Wife, you might want to give this a watch. It was just a little too "tv movie" for my taste, even though it had good intentions. It completely fits in with every stereotype of a television movie from the 1980s, but depending on your style, that will make you seek or avoid it.