This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

One of the best romantic movies ever made. I first watched it in 1979 when I was 14. Yeah it was cheesy then and it's even cheesier now but WOW what a great love story! Love is about overcoming! And man do these two characters overcome! Very few movies today connect with me like this one did! The beginning of the story is such a great set up of how in love Nancy and Michael really are....he's willing to give up his wealth and family for her. His mother, Marion is pure "evil" (Nancy/Marie's words) for trying to manipulate their lives. But I think in the end, Marion (after seeing her son's lonely existence)realizes what she's done and (to me) seems to almost push the two lovers back together by encouraging Nancy/Marie to accept her son's offer to work for the company. One of my favorite parts is when Michael sees the finished painting that Nancy had started but never got to finish because of the accident. Stephen Collins is such a great actor and is just spot on, capturing the emotion of Michael's realization that Marie Adamson is Nancy. And of course finally the ending when Michael has the necklace and confronts Nancy/Marie.....huh...oh so sappy but beautiful. Tears begin to flow. The only down side to the ending is the only thing Nancy could think to say is, "Michael" (in her Nancy voice) after Michaels pours out his heart to her. Sorta'anticlimactic.I loved it anyways and shared this movie with my kids when it came on cable. I just bought the DVD and will be watching it with my much younger co-workers so they can see what a good classic love story is about!

The fact that the actual year that this movie was made is listed wrong, it's 1978 not 1979. Gives you the impression that this movie didn't hold much interest to anyone :) I have to say that the key cast members Stephen Collins and Kathleen Quinlan really try hold this sleeper of a movie together. They did a great job for what that had to work with. Both of them have had some great success in the later careers. I think the most interesting thing about this movie is the fact that it was the late 70's. The last frontier of a simpler time. This is the type of movie that you would end up watching at 3:00am in morning cause you couldn't fall asleep and your wondering what your doing up watching this movie, then you simply start to laugh and say. Wow.... the 70's were a trip - that's for sure.

I really enjoyed the move The Promise made I believe in the year of 1979. It is a refreshing love movie that I looked at as many times as possible. Even my husband called me while we were separated to let me know The Promise is coming on. This is how much he knew I loved movie. I have been looking in most video stores asking for this movie in the early eighty's and was not able to fine it. I would like to know how I may receive a copy of this movie so I may add to my collection of movies I like to watch more than ten times. Because this is my favorite love movie and I really like the main actors. Your assistance on this would be really appreciated.The above comment was written I believe last year. Would like very much how I can obtain a copy of The Promise.Thank youKathy Bronson E-mail address: bronson54@sbcglobal.net

***Spoilers Rampant*** This stupefyingly bad romantic drama deserves a place in the annals of movies that are so bad they become good for all the wrong reasons. In the beginning, Collins and Quinlan go through all the 1970's gum-commercial moments to show us that they are "in love", culminating in their burial of a carnival necklace to signify their love and spouting some of the most ludicrous dialogue ever written. This is played with utter sincerity although Quinlan is decked out in all sorts of face-altering make-up so that she'll look different (and hopefully better) in the last 2/3rds of the film. Smeared with tan pancake make-up, wearing a wig that Marlo Thomas vetoed on "That Girl", donned with eye and nose prosthetics that give her a homely appearance and speaking in a whiny, annoying voice, she is anything but what one would imagine as a dream lover. But that's not all! They also outfitted her with false buck teeth which leave her unable to fully close her lips, so many of her words come out jangled and unintelligible. For example, when confronted by Collins with the prospect of marriage, she replies, "I don't need a feece of fafer..." So she can barely open her eyes and can't close her mouth when she and Collins and his best friend (a total buffoon who rinses toothpaste out of his mouth with BEER!!) are smashed up in a horrific car collision with a truck. From this point on, not one logical thing happens and the story takes on such an orchestra of contrivances that it becomes science fiction. Collins' gorgon of a mother (who viewers know is evil because she smokes cigarettes constantly through a plastic holder) pays to have Quinlan's face put back on, but only if she'll stay away from Collins. The mother (played by Straight) doesn't want a love affair with :::gasp::: an orphan to mess with her plans for Collins' career. So she tells Collins that Quinlan is dead. He apparently takes her word for it without ever once looking into it or even trying to see if there's a grave! A complete set of wild contrivances finally reunite the long lost couple.......and he doesn't even recognize her! You see, she is now the "normal" Quinlan replete with trendy new duds and full on glamour make-up, so he has no clue it's the chipmunk who was in the car crash with him. (And she is quite lovely. She is showcased in a wide variety of hairstyles and outfits.) It all keeps spiralling until they wind up back at the carnival necklace......at almost precisely the same time.....and have a "poignant" reunion. Astonishingly, this film, crazy and as bad as it is, still can manage to draw tears during that final scene from those who have gone along for the (insane!) ride! Collins gives a very heartfelt performance in it (however, Quinlan remains strangely stoic, which hurts the final clinch.) This movie is clearly inspired by such classic tear-jerkers as "Madame X" and "An Affair to Remember" and cribs from both of them. However, by 1979, that type of storytelling had lost all sense of reality....today even more so! It should have been a period piece. Amazingly, the director Cates had previously given audiences the stark and grim "I Never Sang For My Father" before offering up this hoot. Fans of soapy dramas who don't require much reality will love it. Fans of campy, unintentional humor will also eat it up. The only person who will likely hate it is any straight man. He will probably be off the couch and out the door before Melissa Manchester finishes howling the title song!