Rating: Summary: Entertaining director's commentary Review: Okay, everyone has talked about how great the story is and how engaging the actors are. Let me say some good things about the director's commentary. This was Bonnie Hunt's first movie as a director, and it's clear that she's tickled with it. It's also clear that she used to do standup comedy and hang with Second City.These commentary tracks seem to be pretty informal affairs. It can be a real chore to sit through one unless the speakers know how to entertain the audience. Hunt does a fine job. She gets a couple of running gags going, like her strategy to save production (hotel) costs. She has a few pointers for "film school" people. She points out every friend and relative in the production, who has speaking parts, why others don't, and so on. Incidentally, Hunt also talks about how they crafted the screenplay and the film. She talks about how they set up particular characters, fought the studio to leave things in and why, and point out the payoffs when they come. She was also frank about some tough decisions she made about cut scenes. Overall, I found Hunt's commentary entertaining, informative and, well, charming.
Rating: Summary: Don't waste your time Review: In brief, I never realized how incapable David Duchovny is of showing emotion. I'm not a big Minnie Driver fan, but I must say, she would've been much better in this if she wasn't playing against a step above a cardboard cutout.
Rating: Summary: Romantic Comedy at it's Best (Or second best) Review: David Duchovny and Minnie Driver share the lead in this romantic comedy directed by Bonnie Hunt. Duchovny is not one who typically is considered a romantic lead, but with the help of Minnie Driver and Bonnie Hunt he turns in a solid performance. The supporting cast truly makes this film a winner. Carroll O'Conner, Robert Loggia, and their fellow cronies provide numerous big laughs throughout the movie. While some may argue that the combination of Duchovny and Driver results in a lukewarm on-screen relationship, I found them to have a unique and charming rapport. Well worth watching and more than once.
Rating: Summary: I wanted to like this movie Review: I enjoy Bonnie Hunt's work and expected a lot more out of this movie. There is no chemistry between David Duchovny and Minnie Driver, and the obstacle the couple must overcome in the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back" formula is entirely predictable. Of all people, I think James Belushi was the highlight of "Return To Me." If you're looking for a romantic comedy in which the leads actually seem attracted to each other, try "While You Were Sleeping" with Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock. Coincidentally, it's also set in Chicago.
Rating: Summary: Return to me-Best movie since "CHARADES" ! Review: This is such a great movie. An all star cast makes this wonderful plot come together perfectly. When Bob (David Duchovony) and his wife are involved in a tragic accident, Bob lives and his poor wife Elizabeth dies. Meanwhile Grace (Minnie Driver) will die if she does not get a heart transplant. The first scene she is in, is in a hospital, waiting for a heart. Not surprisingly, Grace gets Elizabeth's heart, and the next scene Bob is in, he is mourning for his wife, and you can hear the heart beating in the backround. Also, no surprise here, Bob and Grace develop a romance, and Grace has to try and keep her scar hidden. Bob does not know that Grace has had a heart transplant, and he also of course does not know it is his wifes heart. This is an wonderful romantic comedy, and is classic. But for me, seeing David Duchonony play Bob, when I'm used to seeing him as Mulder, was strange. I rate this movie five-stars, because it was wonderfully written, with the classic love story, and is probably the best romance movie since CHARADES.
Rating: Summary: My favorite movie of all time Review: I saw this on VHS and since we just got a DVD, I had to get it and watch again. I loved the Bonnie Hunt commentary (glad I had seen the movie first though!) and realized (again) how much I loved this movie. I think it is my all time favorite. I liked how she pointed out why they chose certain pieces of music, or what the wind meant ... just really cool. Everyone else has written all that I could say about it - but it is just such a sweet movie, I couldn't resist putting my 2 cents in.
Rating: Summary: Return "Return to Me" to the Store Review: I can't believe so many people like this movie. I love David Duchovny in X-Files, but this movie just didn't work for him. The movie is boring, predictable, and poorly executed. Don't waste your money buying the DVD because there aren't any neat extras on it--there's one cut scene and the director's commentary, that's it! Better luck next time David.
Rating: Summary: THe Best Movie I've ever seen! Review: Well this movie wa so goo that I went out and bought it at a blockbuster the day after I rented it. David Duchovny is great and very cute might I say. Minnie Driver is a great actress and the movie was a very clean movie that anyone would enjoy. I have told all my friends that it is my favorite movie ever and I even bought the soundtrack which is also very good. They should make a second video and another soundtrack to put the rest of the songs from the first video on. Overall it was a great movie and I can't wait to share my favorite video with more friends and family.
Rating: Summary: Return To Me Is Fantastic Review: This wonderfully written movie will forever stand out in my memory. It will make you cry and laugh at the same time. Directed by Bonnie Hunt, this movie is a story of the classic man meets woman but with a few twists intertwined into it. It's deffinetly a great buy.
Rating: Summary: A Good Movie Review: This movie may be kind of hard to follow in the begining for some (I watched it with my grandmother and I kept on having to explain the begining). But over all, it was very good. A good movie will make you cry, laugh, and feel for the people in the movie. This did all of those. I cried when Bob's wife died, I laughed at the four old men and their antics, I laughed at the little boy who repeated every bad word Joe said, and I felt for the two love birds when Gracie found out that she had Elizabeth's heart. This is a good movie that you can see agian and agian and still like it.
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