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Summary: A surprisingly clean romantic comedy
Review: Return to Me is a breath of fresh air in a world in which it's getting harder and harder to find a clean romantic comedy. No sex, minimal language, and no unmarried couples living together! There's even a great respect for the Christian faith (and for Roman Catholicism specifically). The story ("Grace has Bob's dead wife's heart!") seems kind of morbid when taken outside of the context of the movie, but is absolutely charming when the film is actually experienced. The DVD kind of skimps on extra material, but that's not what DVDs are primarily supposed to be for--just buy it and watch the movie! I heartily recommend it for ANYONE of any age!
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Summary: perfect for any age
Review: Great movie! Loved the music, the older actors and especially the dog!
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Summary: Simply Sensational!
Review: This movie was great. I saw it on an airplane on the way to Washington and I loved it. I loved Simply Irresistible starring Buffy(also known as Sarah Michelle Gellar)and this movie was just like it. I give it 2 thumbs up! Whoever reads my review should buy this movie. It's touching and sweet and it made me cry. If you are a sucker happy endings like me I think you should see this movie. It rules! ;-)
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Summary: A Romantic Comedy With Heart To Spare
Review: This congenial romantic comedy really shouldn't work, but darned if it doesn't! Return to Me's plot, about a heart transplant (both surgical and sentimental), is a tad sappy, and in this case, that's good. The movie follows a widower (Duchovny), an architect in Chicago, as he falls in love with a waitress (Driver). Neither realizes until late in the proceedings what the audience has known from the beginning: The transplanted ticker thumping so loudly in Driver's chest every time the two embrace previously belonged to Duchovny's beloved wife (Joely Richardson), who died in a car crash a year earlier. Return has ample charms. The movie doesn't push, either with its pacing or its relationships. It takes its time letting both the major characters and their connections grow. It gives supporting characters plenty to do. And it celebrates the ordinary activities of everyday life among family and friends, including bowling, playing cards and yelling at the kids when they won't pipe down. Many of the movie's most endearing scenes take place at O'Reilly's Italian restaurant, where Driver works. The place is operated by her Irish grandfather (O'Connor) and his Italian brother-in-law (Robert Loggia), both of whom seem to be competing here to demonstrate who has the bigger twinkle in his eyes. Before Duchovny arrives on the scene, O'Connor even tries to set Driver up with a customer. "He's had a transplant too," O'Connor says reassuringly, "hair transplants." Credit for the movie's sweet, easygoing tone belongs to Bonnie Hunt, the comic actress who recently brightened The Green Mile as Tom Hanks's wife. She cowrote and directed Return and also shows up as Driver's tart-tongued best buddy. Duchovny, looser here than on TV's The X-Files, makes for a winning if somewhat comforting leading man, while Driver, wavering between raucous and tremulous, glows throughout.
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Summary: My FAVORITE Romance Movie
Review: I saw "Return to Me" on a flight out to Hawai'i this summer. I cried, I laughed...I loved it. David Duchovny plays Bob Rueland, a construction worker who has just recently lost his wife in a car accident (This role is very different from how I usually see him, as Fox Mulder on the X-Files). Minnie Driver plays Grace Briggs, a waitress and aspiring artist who just received a heart transplant. Bob ends up eating in the restaurant where Grace works, and leaves his cell phone there by accident. Well, one thing leads to another and pretty soon, they start dating. The story takes a turn when the two realize that Grace recieved Bob's late wife's heart. This is a beautiful film that absolutely EVERYONE should see, especially people who love a good romance story.
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Summary: Great Comdey.........
Review: I liked this movie, the starting does get, sad and then it gets more, silly I loved this movie.....:) it's worth watching.
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Summary: Touched my (new) heart...
Review: As a heart transplant recipient (6 years ago) I couldn't resist viewing this movie, and "dragging" my whole family along. Imagine our surprise to find it to really be a great movie and not just one that "dad wants us to see..."! As one who has experienced the miracle of a heart transplant, I certainly watched this with a different view and found it to be not only very entertaining but very close (not in the specific romantic twist, of course) to the real issues and experiences of having a heart transplant. Whether its the family and patient dealing with the unknown future of waiting for death or a new heart, or the beautiful portrayal of the emotions in writing to one's unknown donor family anonymously, this movie captured some very difficult issues realistically ("been there, done that!"). I hope that the popularity of this story will help raise awareness to the need for more people to commit to being organ donors so many others can experience the real life side of this love story through such gifts of life. The reality of recovery post heart transplant to a "normal" life is the real message of this movie, and as one who is living that every day, I say "Five Stars!" - take your loved ones to share the joy of this movie. As one of our non-biased family memebers said after viewing it, "that's the best movie I've ever seen!"
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Summary: It's OK For a Night At Home
Review: I think one may like this film more than others do if one is already a big David Duchovny fan. I have friends who are huge fans of his X Files show and I'm sure they would love this film. However, for me this plays more like a made-for-tv movie than a full theatrical release. The hero loses his wife in an auto accident and his wife's heart is donated to the heroine. These two later become engrossed in an incredibly sentimental romance, verging on the maudlin, without knowing each other's relation to his late wife's heart. My husband took one brief look at the film and promptly left the room to let me finish this "chick film" alone. So I don't hold out a lot of hope for this as a date movie. To be fair, it probably is more like a 3.5 or C+ kind of movie than a straight C. I liked Minnie Driver much better in "Ideal Husband" with Rupert Everett but it could be that Everett is a much more talented leading man and brought out the best in her.
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Summary: A very sweet romantic comedy
Review: This movie could have easily have fallen into the too sappy and sentimental category, but the actors managed to move the movie beyond that. David Duchovny(from the X-files), who I don't really know that well since I don't watch the X-files, effortlessly portrays Bob Rueland as a man grieving for his dead wife, and then falling in love again for the second time in his life. Minnie Driver plays the role of Grace to perfection, from her earlier sick and dying scenes, to starting to embrace life as she is given a second chance to live. Bonnie Hunt and James Belushi as Grace's best friends do a flawless job, and steal almost every scene that they are in. The tone of the movie never gets too heavy handed, and the strong performances manage to keep the flow of the movie going without bogging it down too much. If there was one thing I might have changed it would have been the scene with the dog, where it still waits by the door for Elizabeth(Bob's first wife) to come home, even though she's been dead for a year. That seemed like a little too much to me, but I'm willing to overlook it since it was the only thing I really had to complain about. So, all in all, I recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys love stories, or sweet romances. I hope you enjoy it too.
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Summary: Do you love *Lifetime Channel*?
Review: If so, your tolerance for the ridiculous *Return to Me* will be pretty high, I guess. It's your typical story of a well-to-do architect (David Duchovny) who's building a ZOO ENCLOSURE for his wife who works with gorillas (big big points! building something for wifey AND animals!), and the tragedy which befalls him: namely, his wife gets rather bloodily . . . killed. Ah, but Wifey was an organ donor (some social responsibility! GUYS, take note!), and her heart will end up as a transplant for a young woman (Minnie Driver) who's about to keel over. Because it's Hollywood, the wretched widower and lovely transplantee meet and fall in love. OK, I guess we can put this in the "sickening" file. Whoever dreamed up this disgusting "romance" should be committed, I'm sorry. Oh and by the way, why would a bunch of old Italian codgers still be arguing about the merits of Sinatra's singing? I mean, shouldn't they have resolved this argument back in the early 60's or something? You've been warned, folks.
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