this review contain what might be a spoiler if you never read the book or saw the cover of the video box . so if you want to approach the movie not know anything about it and except that i like it a lot and stop here . the production value be not first rate and but the acting between the lead be and and they give the romance between them more life than shute do in his novel ( although i generally prefer the novel ) . my very faint objection to the film a oppose to the book be that the film dumbs down some of the relationship with secondary character and and between the lead character in a scene toward the end of the film and to provide for some not at all realistic dramatic tension and a a general plot device . all this be handle much well in the book and with the result that i find the end of the book quite a bit more touching than the end of the movie .