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Return to Me
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Conner,
Bonnie Hunt, Jim Belushi |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG |
| Released By: |
MGM
Pictures
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| Kiddie Movie: |
She'll bring you along, but it's not that bad so
go happily.
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| Date Movie: |
The movie is PG so there's nothing too bad in
it, but it's an adult story so they might get
bored.
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| Gratuitous Sex: |
Nope.
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| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Nope.
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| Action: |
Nope.
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| Laughs: |
Some chuckles and cute spots.
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| Memorable
Scene: |
Any time the old dudes are together, and the
back and forth sequence showing Bob losing his wife
and Grace getting her heart.
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| Memorable
Quote: |
Megan to Joe in front of the kids: "Don't say
'hell' you son of a bitch!"
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| Directed By: |
Bonnie Hunt
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| Produced By: |
Jennie Lew Tugend
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Return to Me
A Movie Review |
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Yes, I’ll admit. I got weepy during "Return to Me." And from the
sniffles I heard around me, I’m assuming a lot of others in the theater
did too, or else everyone had a cold at the same time. But "Return to
Me" wasn’t just a tear-jerker, it wasn’t just a comedy, it was a good
movie telling a nice story and was able to do that without overusing
swear words, leaving out sex, and would be a movie that my mom would
probably comment something like "If this movie can tell a nice story
without all of that sex, why can’t other movies do it too?"
"Return to Me" tells the story of Bob (David Duchovny) and Grace
(Minnie Driver). Bob is married to Elizabeth, who sadly dies in a car
crash. Grace is in the hospital, waiting for a new heart. Grace gets
Elizabeth’s heart. About a year later, Bob is still working getting
over Elizabeth, Grace is struggling with the closure that one person
had to die so that she could live, and they meet at O’Reilly’s Italian
Restaurant where Grace is waitressing for her grandpa who owns the
place and Bob is there on a blind date set up by his buddy. Bob
immediately likes Grace, Grace likes Bob, and all is well except
neither of them know, at the time, how Elizabeth fits into the picture,
mostly because Grace is too chicken to tell Bob she had a heart
transplant. So, yea, eventually Grace figures out where her heart came
from, she tells Bob, and they live happily ever after once they both
sort it all out.
It’s a nice story, with no surprises, yet still makes you laugh at
times, makes you weepy at times, and does so with a PG rating. Along
with the "just nice" story of Bob and Grace, "Return to Me" wouldn’t
nearly click as nicely without just about a perfect cast, and the
perfect of them consisting of the sometimes dopey but always meaning
well Jim Belushi cast as Megan’s (Bonnie Hunt) husband, Joe; Megan
herself as the Grace’s best friend, and the scene stealer’s throughout
the movie are the four old dudes, with Carroll O’Connor leading the
pact as Marty, Grace’s grandfather, all of them with the wisdom of
older people and the hearts of kids, trying their best to get Bob and
Grace together.
So, yea, "Return to Me" doesn’t do anything to surprise you, and
that’s okay sometimes. Sometimes a movie just has to tell a nice story,
have lovable characters, and maybe bring a tear to your eye and then
give you a chuckle. "Return to Me" does just that.
And with that, I’m giving "Return to Me" 4 stars out of 5. It was
good to see that a movie can bring emotion without a tragic car/death
scene, can give you a nice love story with gratuitous sex (maybe I’m
just getting old), and had some of the most entertaining group of older
folk since "Grumpy Old Men."
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
