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In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to sett... read more read more...le down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married shortly before shipping out, has arranged for him to take a job as a salesman peddling chocolates. While taking a sales trip to another town, he befriends a beautiful but distraught young woman, Victoria Aragon (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon). While away at college, Victoria met and fell in love with a young man and soon became pregnant; however, when her boyfriend discovered she was expecting, he abandoned her. She returns home full of shame and fearful of her father's reaction. But Paul gets an idea -- he'll pose as her husband and leave after a day or two, so when she's left alone with the child, the disgrace will be on him, not her. Victoria agrees, and Paul joins Victoria as she arrives at her family's estate in the California wine country. Most of the Aragon family take to Paul readily enough, especially Grandfather Don Pedro (Anthony Quinn), but Victoria's father, Alberto (Giancarlo Giannini), senses something amiss between the young couple. A Walk In The Clouds was the first American film from director Alfonso Arau, who previously made the international hit Like Water For Chocolate. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 43 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Arau

Release Date: August 11, 1995

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  • romy861
    March 18, 2012
    romy861
    Quite a nice romantic little story but not my usual type. Sadly, I found it more interesting in the beginning, when he went home to his shallow wife - that is a story that may have held my interest a little more!
    I am sure this is a movie most people would enjoy. Not a favorite ... read morefor me, and not a rewatch, but glad I saw it once.
  • Redlats
    November 15, 2011
    Redlats
    A syrupy movie - about love and honour. Actually I didn't mind Keanu's acting, but the ending of the movie - with the fire and the vine is pure crap.
  • groaningbitch
    July 27, 2011
    groaningbitch
    1995 "a walk in the clouds" is a remake of 1942 italian movie "four steps in the clouds" which is about a henpacked chocolate-seller's temporal acquisition of love from a woman who needs his help to pretend as her husband to disguise her illicit pregnancy by another man. the orig... read moreinal story ends tragically with the man back to the shrewish wife as well as the emptiness of his trapped miserable existence. his mere solace would be his upcoming son whom he could fantasize as the crystallization with the one woman he truly loves. BUT the american version gives another kind of optimistic tone blended with overflown romanticism to render mexico as the redeeming heaven for the wounded american man broken by wwii just like the stereotyped mexican dreams for americans who fancy to escape into another primitive land in oblivion of industrialized trivia within various american pop cultures.

    apparently "a walk in the clouds" is highly idealized by re-incarnating the man as honorable war time hero who condescends to rescue the troubled mexican woman from the moral condemnation of her prestiged family. the man also has no past due to his orphanage, so he could freely abandon his american heritage to surrender over the allure of mexican vineyard except his marriage during the typical wartime redenzvous (that sort of date on saturday, married on sunday wedlock)..thus the audience could identify with the man's moral stance. later his materialistic wife even cheats on him so the man's qualified licitly to gallope toward the mexican fairy who could enliven his soul among the clouds.

    the cinematography feels like a dreamy commercial to lure you into a one or two-week vacation treat in mexican countryside, and the music is idyllically composed (it even won an oscar), and the people under the circumstance are all pleasant endearing grandma/grandpa type to draw an cozy picture of home. keanu reeves delivers every line most/every woman likes to hear in certain conditions of crises, he sings downstairs with a band to swoon you, and he's pure, handsome and gallant despite at most of time he's wooden and slow. it's a picture you don't have to think but dream. perfect merchandize for the consumption of fantasies.

    as i reminiscence, i watched this movie at 13 when every teenage girl around that age went into a feverish craze for it. i used to enjoy that sort of drama when i didn't need to think or frown, but as i gaze my life in reality, i doubt, disbelieve and deny by myself. now i look upon this movie, i automatically examine its ideology at once without a bit of girlish delight i used to blindly feel. but still i wouldn't defame it just becuz my life ain't so glamorous but amazed by how time has roughend me with a degree of detached rationality which sustains me thru the odds. i cannot help but wonder: maybe movie itself is an apparatus to narcotize you into a mode of inner utopia of self-indulgence, whether your aim is at mushy romances or gritty testicle-driven violences or sultry erotica, we shall always seek something to entertain oursevles by any age. i suppose a good movie makes you think; the rest just drives you to buy. what you've gotta learn is to transcend such manipulation to stand on your own to probe.

    "a walk in the clouds" is filled with flat characters but at least they're persuasive stereotypes who look and behave right in their parts under picturesque sceneries. by gazing keanu in fedora, i cannot help but envision this movie made in 1940s with gary cooper and dolores del rio in a better script to bare more scopes of human complexities, maybe it would have been a masterpiece if it's directed by fritz lang in a dialogue-driven method like lang's "clash by night" or jean renoir's "toni".
  • deano
    June 11, 2009
    deano
    This drama film in one word, "beautiful." Keanu Reeves and the rest of the cast make this film enjoyable. The acting is superb and the story is quite good.
    The ending is predictable. So is eating, sleeping, working and making love. Is that any reason not to watch a movie?
    Anth... read moreony Quinn turns in a stellar performance as the eccentric grandfather that really isn't quite as odd as he'd like everyone to believe he is, spots Reeves for what he really is early in the story, and pretty much drives him to face what should be his destiny - but lets him think that he's making up his own mind.
  • thmtsang
    April 6, 2009
    thmtsang
    Keanu plays a guy who has returned from the war and meets a girl who is pregnant and he decides to help her out with her family. Average plot.
  • sononothing
    February 17, 2009
    sononothing
    Let's face it. Keanu Reeves can't act. Don't hide it because he was Neo or Ted. He's what Hitchcock would have called "the stiff". Which brings us to A Walk in the Clouds, a mediocre romance film that contains the largest cast of stereotypical characters ever assembled in a film ... read more(excluding Night Patrol). The story is about a man (Reeves) returning from the war to his bride, who expects the world. You know what's going to happen. He goes to sell chocolates where he meets Victoria (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) who is returning home from college with a surprise- she's pregnant. Hilarity ensues when Reeves' character offers to pose as her husband, then abandon her (why she didn't just tell her family she was abandoned we'll never know). What we get at the home is a collection of regular film characters: the pissed off all the time because his kids are stupid father, the wise old man, and the hot shit son.

    A Walk in the Clouds is dull as hell. Let's face it, I can watch PBS for wine making tips. Anthony Quinn is wasted as the wise gramps who doesn't really give any wise teachings. It's a pathetic film that scores on the fact that the guy from Speed is in a romance (putter, putter). This is sentimental garbage that defies logic at every turn.
  • fernandorafael
    January 17, 2009
    fernandorafael
    An OK film that doesn't offer anything much, besides stunning visuals and a great performance by the late Anthony Quinn.

    As we all know, Keanu Reeves can't act, and all the other actors, excluding Quinn, were very forgettable. The direction could've been better, especially in ... read morethose awful war scenes. Overall, A WALK IN THE CLOUDS is a sappy but entertaining film.

    Kudos to one of my favorite cinematographers, Emmanuel "El Chivo" Lubezki for achieving the absolutely beautiful, dream-like look for this film.
  • bhobbs1985
    April 8, 2008
    bhobbs1985
    This movie is definatly worth watching. It's obviously for the hopeless-romantic, and a little on the typical predictable side... but it's good. The actors are awesome, the storyline is a great idea, and it keeps you interested all the way through. What seems like a simple movie,... read more will turn out to be a real classic for those who watch it.
  • gatorgirl13
    August 5, 2007
    gatorgirl13
    Loved it. Great storyline.
  • jjnxn
    April 17, 2007
    jjnxn
    beautiful looking movie with one of keanu's best performances.

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Critic Reviews

Renee Schonfeld
December 30, 2010
Renee Schonfeld, Common Sense Media

Unplanned pregnancy leads to family lies, surprise romance. Full Review

Michael Dequina
January 13, 2004
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

Reeves and Sanchez-Gijon generate a palpaple romantic chemistry that makes this shamelessly sappy, often unabashedly cornball story work. Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
August 30, 2002
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

Engaging romantic fable about a young man who fulfils his destiny by falling in love with the woman of his dreams. Full Review

Audrey Rock-Richardson
August 22, 2002
Audrey Rock-Richardson, Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

Pure yucky mush. And Keanu can't act.

Lisa Schwarzbaum
September 7, 2011
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

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March 26, 2009
Variety

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Janet Maslin
August 30, 2004
Janet Maslin, New York Times

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Peter Travers
May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Kevin Thomas
February 13, 2001
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

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Joe Baltake
January 1, 2000
Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

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