Classic weepie. Well done if you like this sort of thing.

Now, Voyager is all about Bette Davis. She owns the screen, and is so believable in a role that any other actress would have made sappy that it's tempting to say she was born to play it. Davis makes her ugliness beautiful; she spent a career doing so, and this is a film about a character who does so. The other characters in the movie can only gape at her. She projects vulnerability yet spunk, tenderness yet tremendous resolve. How can you not love her?

Classic Bette Davis - fantastic.

567

Epic Hollywood fable on the transforming power of love and kindness. Obviously has no connection to reality but as make-believe it's really enjoyable. And you gotta love that ending.

I can't get enough of Bette Davis;her range simply astounds me as I watched a middle aged homely spinster turn into a socialite & it goes without saying Bette Davis gave a steller performance....Forbidden romance a chance to be the kinda mom she never had to the daughter of the man she loves this movie is melodrama romance @ it's best

#619

"Now, Voyager remains a highly narcotic, swoon-inducing romance in the Bette Davis canon." - Jeremiah Kipp

This film's smoke filled intimacy has a fascinating allure, but it is Davis' wavering uncertainty that makes the biggest impact. Her character's road to recovery is not quite rocky enough, but that lends the whole affair a dream-like quality, with which I found myself pleasantly entranced.

Paul Henreid oozes class

Bette Davis wasn't a great actress; nor was she a mediocrity protected by an inflated reputation. She was a weird actress. Very unattractive, not even remotely seductive (esp. when she's "performing" seduction), and always with a sense of aristocratic entitlement encasing her performances, she was only great when playing the shrew or the insufferable brat. Sympathetic roles betrayed her, as here, where she's an ugly duckling who's granted not just the moon, but the stars (and an extra cig).

# 576

Great chick picture. Romantic, sad, funny, triumphant, and touching. Bette Davis may have been a real rhymes-with-witch but she was priceless

Excellent film.

I'm not a fan of transparent Melodrama but this film manages to hold interest. An outstanding ending (almost) makes up for its trying pace.

A satisfying weepy melodrama, not brilliant but the kind of thing you enjoy whiling away a couple of hours with. Bette Davis is terrific, although her performance isn't really a "transformation" at all: she's a dowdy, anxious spinster one minute and a self-assured gal about town the next. The film deals with psychiatric difficulties while rejecting the Freudian nonsense that was so fashionable at the time. Also interesting that it condones a romance flourishing outside an existing marriage.

The melodrama is actually quite captivating, especially the relationship between Davis' character and her mother. It gets a bit sappy towards the end but provides appropriate closure for Davis' character arc. I'd give it a higher score but I found the ending rather creepy instead of romantic.

513

It was a lovely film. Sadly, I seem to be impervious to Black and White films during the day. It would have been a far more encapsulating experience had I watched it at night.