Return to Me opens with a loving husband and wife preparing for a very important fund raising dinner. The evening ends with the loss of the wife. In a hospital a weak young woman who may die soon if she can not get a new heart. Jump ahead one year the young woman received a heart and is trying to adjust to a life no longer counted by hours or days, she can actually make plans.
The grieving husband and his dog are still trying to adjust to life without his wife. His friends keep trying to pry him from his “work is my life” existence by setting him up on blinds dates. Finally he actually shows up for one at an Irish-Italian restaurant where he finds himself more attracted to the waitress than his blind date.
He finds an excuse to return to the restaurant in hopes of seeing the waitress again, there’s just something attractive about her. Unknown to both the attraction they both feel for one another is Grace has the heart of Bob’s dead wife. What can you say after that! Carroll O’Connor says exactly the right thing to Bob after he finds out this ironic coincidence.
Return to Me is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Bonnie Hunt and starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. It was filmed in Chicago and was released on April 7, 2000 by Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer. It was Carroll O’Connor’s final film before his death the following year.
Return to Me (2000)
Directed by: Bonnie Hunt
Starring: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O’Connor, Robert Loggia, David Alan Grier, Bonnie Hunt, Joely Richardson, James Belushi, Marianne Muellerleile
Screenplay by: Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake
Production Design by: Brent Thomas
Cinematography by: László Kovács
Film Editing by: Garth Craven
Costume Design by: Lis Bothwell
Set Decoration by: Daniel B. Clancy
Art Direction by: David W. Krummel
Music by: Nicholas Pike
MPAA Rating: PG for language and thematic elements.
Distributed by: Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer
Release Date: April 7, 2000
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