Falling in Love  I had no idea that Meryl Streep and Robert De
Niro starred in a fairly light-hearted romance Falling in Love
(1984), but they did.  Points to make:  1. The soundtrack of
this movie utilizes Dave Grusin's kind of jazzy hit "Mountain
Dance."  I feel like I heard this song a lot as a child. I
wonder if my dad had this somewhere or played it on the piano or
something. Anyway, it's suprisingly timeless in feel, but
definitively 80s. It also makes this film definitively full of
Hollywood happy romance.  2. This is based on the British film
Brief Encounter (1945). And while Falling in Love follows the
same almost adulterous affair between two adults on a train
plot, it's far less proper and less repressed than Brief
Encounter. What I love about the latter is that it is so
suppressed. It's told from the perspective of a woman in
flashbacks. We witness a scene where she's saying goodbye to a
man and then drives off with her husband. She reflects on her
relationship with that man until we see the first