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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 1660
Released: October 31, 2000 |
| Our Price: $6.42 |
| Used Price: $0.95 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Who knew that when he ordered the special, he d get the dish of his life? David Duchovny ('the X-Files ) and Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting) ignite sparks in this warm-hearted winner (JeffCraig, 'sixty Second Preview ) about a widower and a waitress who meet and fall in love. Featuring an incredible all-star cast, this hilarious romantic comedy delivers a lot of laughs, tears and joysthat will make your spirits soar. It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob (Duchovny), a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress, Grace (Driver). With unsolicitedhelp from Grace's matchmaking grandfather (Carroll O Connor), Bob asks her out. And as their relationship blossoms, everything seems to be going great, until an unbelievable truth is revealed one that could easily break both of their hearts for good.
Description of Return to Me:
Bob Rueland (David Duchovny) and Grace Briggs (Minnie Driver) have very little in common. Granted, they both live in Chicago and they're both a bit lovelorn, but that's about it. Still, fate has something in mind for these two somewhat-depressed souls (a construction worker and budding artist, respectively), who've both recently had brushes with death--he's a recent widower, she's just recovered from a heart transplant--and are a little more serious than their friends and relatives. After a series of misbegotten blind dates and almost-meetings, though, these two finally get together, and find that they fit seamlessly with each other. Despite their differences, they have a lot in common--in fact, quite a lot. It seems that the heart that now beats inside Grace's chest once belonged to Bob's wife (Joely Richardson), who died in a car crash. Coincidence? We think not.
A gentle, pleasing romantic comedy, Return to Me marks the directorial debut of Bonnie Hunt, an acclaimed actress known most famously for her role as Renee Zellweger's sister in Jerry Maguire. A shining, happy bright spot in whatever role she's in, Hunt has also invested the film with her trademark brand of humor: dry but sincere, sarcastic but not caustic, and with a deep current of humanity and romance. In the midst of all the permutations that fate surrounds them with, Driver and Duchovny make a pleasantly low-key couple; the triumph of the film is that despite all the contrived angst, the romance is never overly saccharine. They provide a quiet center in a film that has a fair amount of chaos in it, particularly due to Driver's extended family of Irish and Italian relatives (which occasionally tips the film into cutesy territory) and most hilariously to Driver's best friend, played by director Hunt . As a harried mother with innumerable kids and a likable oaf of a husband (James Belushi), Hunt again steals scenes effortlessly; Belushi is a comic revelation, better than he's been in years. You'll have the pleasant memories of both of these couples--one falling in love, one together for years--with you a long while after seeing this film. --Mark Englehart
Return to Me Reviews:
Great Movie! 
2009-11-02 - This is a great movie! Full of humor, great actors, great little love story! It was one we had to buy and make our own to watch again and again. We have had a great time sharing it with friends, who have all enjoyed it just as much as we did the first time.
Return To Me 
2009-09-24 - I got my DVD and when I tried to play it, it would not play. It kept telling me it was the wrng Number Region and when I emailed the shipper I never got a reply, so I was not happy with my DVD. I am sorry this happened because I have always had good luck with Amazon and was disapointed. Joan Wilson
a FAVORITE Romantic Comedy
2009-09-20 - As you can see from the reviews, MOST people (usually women, who have good taste) LOVE this movie. It is one of my all-time favorites. The cast and writing are superb. The music is wonderful! If you have a heart, you will fall absolutely in love with this movie.....(I gave it a personal Academy Award in 2000 as best movie of the year!)
My favorite Chicago girl
2009-09-19 - I love that Bonnie Hunt put her family in this movie. It feels so authentic. The people are so real and unaffected. I will watch this one over and over.
Bonnie Hunt this is one of my fav movies of all time
2009-09-09 - I can watch this movie over and over
it is one of my favorite movies
I love all the actor's she chose they're just
perfect, and of course the dog! Bonnie please do another movie
I love your movies, your show your awesome.......and I love Charlie :)
It also brings back memories of Carol Oconnor as I watched him growing up You have to buy this movie......
