Movie Review by: Karen Tan Lay Cheng
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Directed by Bonnie Hunt, Return To Me is a romantic
comedy about Bob Rueland (David Duchovny), a Chicago building
contractor whose veterinarian wife Elizabeth Rueland (Joely
Richardson) is killed in a tragic automobile accident.
Meanwhile, friends and family of Grace Briggs (Minnie Driver)
are overjoyed when they hear that Grace will receive a
replacement heart transplant. As fate would have it, Grace
receives the late Elizabeth's heart.
The first twenty minutes of
this movie are vital to the story- it shows the love and bond
between Bob and Elizabeth and how they cherished their life
together. After Elizabeth dies, Bob is miserable. Even their
dog Mel is miserable- waiting each day next to the door for
Elizabeth's return. .After more than a year, Grace and Bob
meet in Grace's grandfather's Irish-Italian restaurant that
Grace works as a waitress in. Something clicks between them
and they soon fall in love. But the question is, can Grace
bare to tell Bob that she has his late wife's heart?
This movie gets rather
predicable at times, but what makes the 'Return To Me' really
fun to watch is the great performance by Carroll O'Connor as
Grace's grandfather, Marty O'Reilly. Funny when he needs to
be, yet with a serious and spiritual side, he is definitely
the shining star of this movie.
Even though this movie is
perhaps a little too predictable, it is still a heart-warming
and touching story. Since there is a lesson to learn from
every movie, this one would be that It really makes you think
twice about appreciating the people you love and not really
truly appreciating them until they leave.
One thing I realized about this
movie that is getting to be quite uncommon in every other
movie released is that it doesn't have any sex nor violent
scenes, so it's a perfect movie for a date- you get the love,
comedy and no weird uncomfortable moments in between.
Personally I'd give this movie a rating of 3 ½ out of 5. If
all this interests you, go watch the movie!!
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lonely man, Bob was recently widowed when his wife died. Now
he finds himself unintentionally falling for the Grace, who is
surrounded by a circle of substitute mothers including her
Irish grandfather, who with his Italian brother-in-law run a
Chicago restaurant. Their lives are soon forever intertwined
by fate. Grace had just recently had a heart transplant, but
Bob doesn't know that the woman whom he is falling in love
with is the woman who received his wife's heart.
