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Summary: A Heartwarming Love Story!
Review: What a romantic movie! The actors & actresses did a great job of making the characters & story seem realistic. Minnie Driver has a weak heart & needs a heart transplant. David Duchovny loses his wife in a car accident but his wife is an organ donor. By chance David meets her while she's working at the restaurant that her grandfather owns. The sparks fly between them but when she finds out he's her heart donor's husband she feels awkward & runs away. Of course things work out between them in the end but it's a fun and romantic movie worth watching. I've watched this film over and over never getting tired of it. I highly recommend adding this video to your collection! :)
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Summary: A Modern Classic
Review: I must say right off the bat that I love a good romantic comedy. I even love a not-so-good romantic comedy. But this, this is an EXCELLENT romantic comedy. I was sobbing minutes into my first viewing of the film (embarrassing, since I was in a packed theater). Soon, I was laughing just as hard. Carroll O'Connor and his gang of widowed pals were hysterical! My husband, who thought this would be a "chick flick," liked it just as much as I, and he's also watched it on dvd several times with me. It's an unlikely plot, but since when is fiction confined to reality? No one ever, to my knowledge, knocked "Star Wars" for being too unrealistic. This is a great, uplifting movie, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: Genuinely loving and lovable film
Review: Without high expectations for this film, I was utterly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It uses a simple and uncommon plot device of a woman getting another woman's heart then meeting the dead woman's husband, but it's not THAT incredible -- if anyone in your family has had a transplant, this storyline can hit home. Regardless, I thought that David and Minnie's low-key acting and reactions of friends and family made the romance seem real. I felt involved, not manipulated as I watched the romance evolve. I thought the two fit together well. The music track also is delightful. Several months after watching the film, I played it for a friend who isn't crazy about Duchovny. At the end of the film, she said, "Wow, I didn't know Hollywood would allow anybody to make this kind of movie anymore. It's wonderful." My thoughts exactly.
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Summary: escapism at its best
Review: Here now my friends...Here there be a movie. Here's a flick to write home about. Here is a romance the way romance should be done. Never mind the weird uniting premise. Pay attention instead to the luminescence of Minnie Driver, David Duchovny, Carol O'Connor and the always masterful Robert Loggia. This is pure, wonderful escapism. It even ends in Italy. Check it out.
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Summary: A Truly Wonderful Film
Review: This particular film was one that I wanted to see in theaters, but never got around to it. When I finally rented it in the summer of 2001 I enjoyed it so much that I went out and bought the DVD soon after. Bonnie Hunt and Don Lake did a wonderful job with the screenplay and are wonderful to listen to on the audio commentary that is included on the DVD. They did a great job in creating characters that you really care about. I really felt a whirlwind of emotions watching this film including sadness, anxiety and joy. The film also does a great job in showing the importance of family (a rarity in film today), which is a reflection of the director, Bonnie Hunt, based on the comments she made on the DVD. David Duchovny showed me here that there is life beyond Fox Mulder giving a wonderful performance with some pretty poignant scenes. I highly recommend that you give this movie a viewing. I am really thankful to the creators of this film. They have given me a wonderful piece of cinematic viewing that I will recommend to all my friends. I have seen a lot of movies over the years and it is very rare that I come away with such a feeling of satisfaction after watching a film. I will watch this time and time again for years to come. Return to Me reminds me that there are still moviemakers out there that know how to sincerely please their movie audiences. Thanks!!
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Summary: Old-fashioned romance has several good qualities
Review: If you aren't in a romantic mood or if you can't put away your cynicism for a couple of hours, don't see Return to Me, for it is sweet, light and utterly predictable. It is an example of how sometimes they do make them like they used to. Except for its plot device about a heart transplant, it could have just as likely been made forty years ago with Deborah Kerr and David Niven. Bob Rueland [David Duchovny] is a successful Chicago contractor still madly in love with his wife, who was his high school sweetheart. [I told you the picture was old-fashioned.] Meanwhile, across town, Grace Briggs [Minnie Driver] is a very sick young woman awaiting a heart transplant. When Bob's wife is killed in an auto accident, none other than Grace receives the dead woman's heart. A year later, we see the changes in the soon-to-meet pair's lives. He is still grieving and proves difficult to be around. Grace is recovered and is working at her grandfather's restaurant. She's a shy, artistic girl who is very self-conscious. Someone who has been bypassed love, Grace thinks the unsightly scar on her chest makes remote her chances of finding someone . Bob, of course, isn't looking for anyone. Worn down by the badgering of his well meaning best friend, he agrees to a blind date. This disastrous date occurs in the very restaurant Grace works in. I imagine you can fill in the rest of the story. David Duchovny is working hard to get away from his X-Files' character, and here is does a decent job in a role which requires him to change his personality from carefree to gloomy and back again. As Grace, Minnie Driver is excellent. I don't know Ms. Driver, but I always picture her as the sort of person who lights up a room whenever she walks in. She certainly brighten ups any movie she's in. Still, it is Carroll O'Connor as Marty O'Reilly, the grandfather, who steals the show. He and his cronies, played by Robert Loggia, David Alan Grier and Marianne Muellerleile, are delightful as very wise and very nosey senior citizens. A funnier group of matchmakers you are unlikely to see anytime soon. Return to Me is the directorial debut of Bonnie Hunt, who also costars in the movie. Though playing it safe at every turn, she still demonstrates that she has a knack for the job. After all, if every director were flashy and brilliant, then the movies might actually prove to be a less interesting mix of projects. Return to Me serves its simple purposes, which are to entertain us and to make us feel happy and hopeful.
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Summary: Sniff, Sniff! A great movie anyway!
Review: this movie is amazing! it's about two people, Grace and Bob, who meet by chance. Bob's wife, whom he loved very much, died and Grace had a heart transplant so she hasn't dated. They date for a while and they fall in love but then Grace finds something out that links their pasts together and could tear their futures apart. I repeat, this movie is awesome! it was a bit teary at the end but i loved it and i don't like sad movies. it wasn't sad exactly, but tear-jerking. but it's not just a movie for us chics. it's hilarious! Grace's meddling grandfathers and friends are hilarious!! and the whole movie is filled with laughter. In the words of Bob from Veggie Tales, "I laughed, I cried, it moved me."
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Summary: Bad plot--but great acting!
Review: Where on earth do you get a more ridiculous plot? Man loses his wife in an accident and his love-interest-to-be gets her heart. The way the story of Bob (Duchovney) and Grace (Driver)is laid out on screen, there is absolutely no question in our minds right from the start how it is all going to turn out. Despite the implausibility and predictability of the story, the actors manage to pull of a trememdous feat. They make Bob, Grace, and all the zany side characters (O'Conner, Grier, Hunt, and Belushi) come to life. They make us actually believe in them and care about them. Duchovney puts in a heartbreaking performance in the scene where he breaks down after his wife's death. And Belushi almost steals the show with his "real man" antics. And how can you find any fault in the late great Carroll O'Conner's performance as the interfering Irish grandfather? Bottom line? Don't miss this feel good story just because the plot sounds hokey. Give it a chance, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Summary: A real charmer
Review: The hook to RTM is pretty contrived; but once you accept it this is a really charming romantic comedy. Duchovney and Driver are nicely teamed; the supporting cast of characters (and they are characters!) is an entertaining lot. Bonnie Hunt does an admirable job showing off her hometown of Chicago; the film is something of a valentine to a city Hunt clearly loves. Carroll O'Conner nearly steals the show--watch closely for a tribute he pulls off to one of the running gags from "All in the Family."
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Summary: A GOOD SIT BY THE FIREPLACE WITH YOUR DARLING MOVIE
Review: I THOUGHT THIS WAS AN EXCELLENT MOVIE. ALTHOUGH IT WAS PRETTY PREDICTABLE ALMOST FROM THE BEGINNING, THE STORY WAS BOTH TOUCHING AND HEARTWARMING. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE. THE LATE CARROLL O'CONNOR PLAYED AN ESPECIALLY GOOD ROLE. THE ENDING WAS NOT QUITE WHAT I HAD HOPED FOR, THOUGH. THIS IS DEFINITELY A MUST SEE.
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