Customer Rating: Summary: Remember Me Comment: For any woman who has experienced the love of a distant land and embers that continue to burn, this is a must see! I just wish it was on DVD already! That last scene, her last answer to his question....what woman wouldn't just love to be her in this movie? Been there...done it. Put this on DVD already! Customer Rating: Summary: fantasy! Comment: This movie is nothing more than fantasy, not based on real facts. The only real thing would be the costumes. There is no revolution , love story or no palace on the top of the hill like the one I saw in this movie. Ava Gardner and Omar Shariff are great actor/actresses but they made the scenario to make them play like an ordinary actor/actress. The movie is one time watch just for curiousity. You might have fun if you watch it as a comedy because the story is ridicolous, does not reflect any reality from Ottoman Empire history. Customer Rating: Summary: A romance out of the past Comment: I enjoyed this seemingly made for TV movie when I saw it back in 1990. I discovered afterward there was another movie with the title of Harem made the same year (1985-86) and starring Nastassja Kinski. That one was a bit darker, but also enjoyable. I had already seen Nancy Travis, the starlet of this Harem, in the Richard Gere cop thriller Internal Affairs, and in a bit part in Married to the Mob, so at the time she was babelicious. It's become a common plot, in these types of movies, to have a beautiful western woman kidnapped by a lustful or politically-motivated sultan or sheik (I think of the excellent The Wind and the Lion, the surreal The Sheltering Sky, then Sahara and a bunch of lesser movies). But Harem executes this plot well - you sympathize for Jessica, the character played by Nancy Travis, you want her fiance to rescue her, and yet you start rooting for her new Bedouin love interest and even feel for the tyrannical sultan, played by Omar Sharif. Julian Sands plays Jessica's stiff Brit fiance, a turnabout from the dashing and impetuous young lover he played in A Room with a View. You wish he would be a stronger character, but he is so weak-kneed you understand Jessica's fickle betrayal. Customer Rating: Summary: Nice Cast, good sets..fun, but a little cheesy... Comment: This film is fun to watch, with a good cast, nice costumes etc. but it is a little cheesy in so much as the plot is rather convoluted and stereotypical...but like I said, it's just for a fun watch. Worth buying! Customer Rating: Summary: Cinematic Triumph Comment: After reading the other reviews of this movie, I realized that either it was beloved or hated; nothing in between. And that's OK! If you love movies with wide, sweeping scenes, storylines that draw you in and keep you there, stories with lead characters who display loyalty, courage, love, and integrity, then this is for you. If you don't, then go watch a mindless action flick. Sure this movie is a bit implausible, but that's how we want it, don't we? That's why movies are escapist fantasies. That's why we go to the movies, isn't it? Otherwise, go watch a documentary. If you want to dream and escape for a while--then this is for you.
