Return to Me
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| Return to Me | |
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| Directed by | Bonnie Hunt |
| Produced by | Jennie Lew Tugend |
| Written by | Bonnie Hunt (story and screenplay) Don Lake (story and screenplay) Andrew Stern (story) Samantha Goodman (story) |
| Starring | David Duchovny Minnie Driver Carroll O'Connor Robert Loggia Bonnie Hunt David Alan Grier Joely Richardson Eddie Jones James Belushi Marianne Muellerleile William Bronder Tim O'Malley (actor) |
| Music by | Danny DiMinno Carmen Lombardo Nicholas Pike |
| Cinematography | László Kovács |
| Editing by | Garth Craven |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | April 7, 2000 |
| Running time | 115 minutes (approx.) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $24 million USD (estimated) |
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Return to Me is a romantic movie rated PG. Return to Me was directed by Bonnie Hunt and starred David Duchovny as Bob and Minnie Driver as Grace. It was filmed in Chicago in 1999, and released in April 2000.
The story begins as Bob's wife, Elizabeth, is killed in a tragic car accident. Sometime later Bob meets Grace, who coincidentally was living in the same hospital in which Elizabeth died. Grace was waiting for a heart transplant. Bob's wife donates her heart and it is given to Grace. Having been given a second chance at life, Grace is forever grateful and begins to enjoy life again. Bob is heartbroken and goes into a state of depression until one night he shows up at a restaurant to eat with friends and falls in love with the waitress, Grace. The two start to spend time together and are blissfully in love until Grace uncovers her handwritten thank-you note in Bob's house and realizes what has happened. When Grace tells Bob, he is torn and must make a decision to live in the past with his wife or move on and begin to love Grace as well.
[edit] Cast
- David Duchovny - Bob Rueland
- Minnie Driver - Grace Briggs
- Carroll O'Connor - Marty O'Reilly
- Robert Loggia - Angelo Pardipillo
- Bonnie Hunt - Megan Dayton
- David Alan Grier - Charlie Johnson
- Joely Richardson - Elisabeth Rueland
- Eddie Jones - Emmett McFadden
- James Belushi - Joe Dayton
- Marianne Muellerleile - Sophie
[edit] Trivia
- This film gets its title from the Dean Martin recording of the same name. The voices of the female background are removed electronically for the film version.
- Bonnie Hunt's directorial debut sold more copies to the airline industry than any other single film in history.[citation needed]
- This was Carroll O'Connor's last film.
- Many of the restaurant scenes in the movie were filmed at Twin Anchors, in Chicago's famed Old Town neighborhood. The hospital scenes were filmed in Michael Reese Hospital.
- The bicycle that Minnie Driver receives from David Duchovny in the movie was provided by Rudy's Cycle and Fitness (www.rudysbikes.com) in Chicago, a bikeshop that Bonnie Hunt would shop at when she was a child
