This Can’t Be Love (1994) DVD Color Approx 89 Min. Shown in 4:3 aspect ratio. Color Playable on any standard North American (US, Canada, etc.) DVD player
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Quinn, Jason Bateman, Jami Gertz, Lori Ann Triolo and Maxine Miller. Music by Peter Matz. Written by Duane Poole. Directed by Anthony Harvey.
Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Quinn star as two aging actors who had a brief, but intense, marriage in the 1940s, and are reunited decades later to find that issues between them are not resolved. The film makes references to Hepburn's real career and personality, for instance starring in a Western with John Wayne. (Hepburn was 86 and Quinn was 78 when they made the film.)
Helmed by Anthony Harvey, (director of the early-70s cult classic “They Might Be Giants”), this made-for-television romantic drama stars Anthony Quinn and Katharine Hepburn. The pair of aging movie stars appropriately play a pair of aging movie stars named Michael Reyman and Marion Bennett. For decades the two held intense animosity toward one another, but in their golden years they begin to realize that perhaps they've simply been trying to mask their feelings of love. Jason Bateman and Jami Gertz head up the supporting cast. The film was originally broadcast on CBS, March 13, 1994.
Customer review: “"This Can't Be Love" is one of Katharine Hepburn's last television movies. The legendary actress had two reasons for making this 1994 romantic comedy. The first is that the director was Anthony Harvey, who directed Hepburn in the film that won her the third of her record four Best Actress Oscars, "The Lion in Winter." The second would be that her leading man was Anthony Quinn, another larger than life figure who could go toe to toe with Hepburn and still have his head on his shoulders.