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kklinger

Review in a sentence:  Far superior to Cameron's blockbuster.

No one can deny that 1997's Titanic was entertaining and technically dazzling.  However, A Night to Remember is better than Titanic because it is more engrossing, and it is almost completely based on fact.  Whereas Cameron strayed liberally from historical events, A Night to Remember (based on the Walter Lord novel of the same name) is practically a documentary.  And most of the inaccuracies in ANTR can be attributed to lack of knowledge at the time it was filmed (for example, it was not known that the ship broke in half prior to sinking until the ship was discovered in the 1980s).  In the 1997 film, I became misty eyed when fictional characters experienced hardship and loss.  In this movie, I cried for real life people who lost their lives or the lives of their loved ones during this spectacular disaster.  10 out of 10

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kklinger 17 July 2000

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0065122/