Here chick , chick, chick, yes, its a great chick flick. But guys it also is a great love story. A movie that leaves you with a good feeling.A funny warm wonderful movie, Remember when that was important.Its nice to watch a movie that doesn't make you feel like you have to change your clothes and wash your mind out. Great movies are still great.Bonnie Hunt tells a great story with comic embellishment. Good work Girl!

Have you ever wondered what happened to heart transplant patients after the surgery? Does it change their lives? What are their feelings knowing that their new life comes at the expense of someone else's?

Bob (Duchovny) and Elizabeth (Richardson) had a great life. She loved caring for the apes at the zoo and he was building an enclosure to make the animals lives even better. They'd like to take a trip to Italy--maybe after the new building is done.

Then, a tragic accident claimed her life. Bob signs away his wife's heart and tries to go on with his life.

Grace (Driver) who's had a heart condition most of her life, is about to die. She gets word she's getting a heart. The surgery's successful, but she mourns that someone had to die to get her life. It takes her a year to send a thank-you note to the donor family.

Life does get better for Grace. She's out of the hospital, she's painting and dreaming of going to Italy, but has never been on a plane...

While Bob is out on a disastrous blind date, he meets Grace. She's waitressing his table. He ditches his date and accidentally leaves his phone at the restaurant O'Reilly's Italian, run by Grace's grandfather (O'Connor) and his lovable poker playing cronies.

The rest is predictable and history, but is still worth seeing. "Return to Me" is a heartfelt comedy and a pleasant evening.

Rebecca Kyle, May 2008

This is a very touching and funny movie. Good clean fun that will run you through a gambit of emotions.

I enjoy the movie and the DVD was just as described new, unopened, and working correctly.

Return to Me is a wonderful feel good movie that I encourage everyone to see. There is the perfect balance of romance and comedy that it makes it a great friday night movie. GET IT!

This is one of those great movies where you laugh and cry!!!! We keep watching it and watching it. It is definately a keeper. No bad language, no sexual scenes. Just a great clean movie!! Of course Minnie Driver was great along with Bonnie Hunt!! ENJOY!!

This movie made me laugh and cry and everything in between. Minnie Driver is great in romantic comedies so she is definitely in her element. It's funny to think of David Duchovny in something so sweet since the premier of Californication. Bonnie Hunt is always a great supporting actress and she was beyond hilarious in this movie. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes romantic comedies.

A good romantic comedy that is more realistic than most. Girl almost dies, girl lives, girl falls in love, with a twist. The supporting characters are down to earth, funny and realistic.

This movie is wonderfully acted (the "supporting" cast are headliners themselves) and it is a gentle love story...after the first 15 minutes. The first part of the movie is an emotional roller-coaster that grabs your attention. Too, this is a great film for animal lovers (who can tolerate zoos). - Is this a deep movie? No. Is it a movie that will put you and your significant other in a good mood? Absolutely.

This is a refreshingly sweet comedy romance that is reminiscent of the comedy romances of the past. The performances are endearing and believable. Makes one want to fall in love all over again.

I thought this movie was a delight even though it was one of those "that'll never happen" movies. The whole family can watch and enjoy it, so it was worth every penny. I plan to share it with friends.

Enjoyable. Bought only because girlfriend likes to re-watch favorite movies regularly (and VHS copy finally broke). Otherwise, would have rented and been fine.

I admit it I am a fan of both (actually several) stars of this movie. After Minnie Driver's new show on FX the Riches, reminded me how much I liked her, I got to remembering this film, then coincidentally it was showing on broadcast TV the other day when I came home from work and my wife was watching it and told me to order it, so I did, and we watched it with our youngest who also enjoyed it very much.

But this is a very sweet and touching tale with an interesting twist that is strong on a not too subtle metaphor.
Watch this with your sweetheart for a romantic night at home.

THIS IS A CUTE MOVIE ,THOUGH SOME OF THE LANGUAGE IS NOT GOOD FOR CHILDREN,ONE OF MY FAVORITES.

From an absurd plot - Chicago architect Duchovny falls in love with the much younger woman who (unknown to him) has received the transplanted heart of his dead wife - first time director Bonnie Hunt (who also has a good role in the movie) has crafted a very good romantic comedy. Minnie Driver, in particular, as the virginal Grace (this is a very catholic movie) has never been better as the object of Duchovny's chaste affection. The main question of the movie is how Duchovny will react when he learns about Grace's history - and how that will affect their relationship. The film is also a paean to a particular milieu - working class ethnic America, particularly the Italian, Polish and Irish groups that intersect in Chicago - that is fast disappearing as a result of assimilation.

This movie is truly great. It's funny, heart-warming, and just all around a great flick. Bonnie Hunt was part writer and I think a producer.

Seriously funny and definitely a classic.

This is a funny, moving, sweet movie. David Ducovney and Minnie Driver have great chemistry telling this story, but Carroll O'Connor and Robert Loggia really add a lot of spice and feeling to this movie. It's fun to watch over and over.

The music sets the mood for a most entertaining love story. It has all the qualities of romance, sadness, happiness and with a supporting cast of typical Italian Family. We laughed out loud many times. Enjoy

David and Minne play Bob and Gracie who meet and fall each other by accident. David's wife dies in a car accident and Gracie is seriously ill and needs a heart. They meet at a restaurant and they don't now anything about each other (other than she a waitress/painter and he's an architect). Gracie finds out that she has Bob's wife's heart!

I won't go a whole lot in deal but the cast of Carol O'Connor, Bonnie Hunt, and James Belushi,etc is excellent!! A well done writing and directing job from Bonnie Hunt. Wow!

Rent this movie now, it's really touching and well done!

I got this movie and it took me a week to finally watch it. I feel like watching it again tomorrow. It was excellent! Funny, emotional and for me as a recently widowed 39 yr old, it was part of my healing process. My husband died in an auto accident as Duchovny's wife did. There were little things here and there in the movie that made me feel like I was somehow meant to watch it. The chanting 68 during bowling and the big numbers "68" when they went back to the restaurant, brought tears because '68 was my husband's birth year....

When my husband was here and I would pick a movie that was not very good, he would tease me and always said, "that's a Lena movie". He would not have said that about this one. I know he would have loved...or did love it as much as I did. After all he was the one that chose it for me.

Do yourself a favor and see this movie....I highly recommend it.

I loved it. It is funny in parts, sad in parts, the characters are great, like old friends. It is a romantic "chic" flick. But I don't care. I loved it.

This wonderful film from Bonnie Hunt has a quiet magic rarely seen in film these days. Hunt and Don Lake wrote the screenplay from an original story hatched with Andrew Stern and Samantha Goodman. As with everything Hunt has been involved in, there is a quiet class to every moment in the film.

David Duchovny was the perfect choice for Bob, a successful building engineer very much in love with his wife, Elizabeth (Joely Richardson). Elizabeth has a tender passion for a Gorilla named Sidney, whom she has taught sign language. Raising money for a new habitat for Sidney and his expanding family is her purpose in life. It is a passion cut short, however, when a car accident suddenly takes her from Bob's life in an instant.

Hunt's screenplay and her direction are both marvelous here. Elizabeth is not just a set-up character for the rest of the story, but rather someone real. So is the relationship between she and Bob. Because Hunt's direction takes the time to make the couple's love real, it is all the more poignant when tragedy strikes. Duchovny's scene where he is slumped against his front door, sobbing with his dog Mel looking on for a love never coming back is touching and very real.

Months go by and Bob goes to pot. Mel, who still sits by the front door waiting for Elizabeth to return, is a constant reminder of his loss. His pal Charlie (David Alan Grier) takes him to O'Reilly's, an Irish-Italian place, on a disasterous blind date. Hunt mixes humor with the pathos, and a pretentious bit about bottled water will lead the audience to laughter and Bob to the sweet and funny Gracie.

Minnie Driver is simply adorable as Grace, a girl who rides her bike everywhere and worries that she might die and leave her grandfather Matty (Carroll O'Connor) with no one to look after. He has raised her and her concern is very real. She had been near death when a heart suddenly became available and she was given a second chance at life. At the urging of her good friend, portrayed winningly by Hunt herself, she sends an anonymous letter to the surviving relative of the donor thanking them for her heart. She does not know, of course, that the heart which beats in her chest belonged once to Elizabeth.

The romance of Bob and Grace is filled with sweetness and charm. He still misses his wife but comes to ache for Gracie. While their romance blooms, there are wonderful scenes of Matty and his pals talking about baseball and singers, comparing Sinatra and Bing to Dean and Vinton. Bob becomes a part of the group, accepted immediately because, like them, his wife has died. Robert Loggia is a real standout as the cook, Angelo.

Gracie's self-consciousness about her scar will give she and Bob time to fall in love. But all is shattered in a moment when she discovers her letter in his home, along with a newspaper detailing his wife's accident. Not even the gift of a vintage bicycle can prevent her from using the ticket to Rome her grandpa has given her, hoping Bob will come after her. There is a truly moving moment when Matty takes Bob aside and offers an explanation for all that has happened.

Before Hunt brings us to a wonderful ending there is some great music mixed in with the warmth and humor of this fine film. Even Jackie Gleason's sweet and pure orchestra version of "Tenderly" is used. Jim Belushi is marvelous as Hunt's funny and down-to-earth husband. There isn't a wrong note in this entire film. This is what a romantic date movie should be but seldom is. Minnie Driver riding her bicycle in the middle of the night just to tell her friend Megan (Bonnie Hunt) she has finally met someone is so endearing you will never forget it. It is small moments and touches like that which place this film miles ahead of other romantic comedies.

If you've never seen this then you are in for a real treat. It is sweet and funny, simple and touching. A great movie to own.

Boy loses girl, but regains her heart...that is Return to Me. While some may come down on this movie as being predictable, to be fair not many romantic comedies are. Bonnie Hunt and Don Lake bring a nice story to the screen coupled with good acting from David Duchovny and Minnie Driver and an excellent supporting cast. Carroll O'Connor and his friends are great scene stealers and really provide solid comedy. James Belushi as well does his thing and does not let down. I think perhaps the family/group aspect of this movie makes for a cozy flick to watch with a significant other.

My girlfriend of now 6 years and counting rented this for us to watch on a cold Saturday night in November, 2000 when we were very new together. Rest assured, the romance in the film was more than enough for any date!

It's sweet, touching, funny, and funny some more. The characters are wonderful, everybody gives a fine acting performance and simply put, you'll most likely be hooked.

We adopted this movie as, 'our movie,' and it always will be, and what better a movie than this. Highly highly reccomended!

Mike
NJ

This is a classic romantic comedy. I've watched it 6-7 times already and enjoyed it each time. Starting with a clever script, good casting, good acting and good music, it is funny and very entertaining.

My family rented this movie and right after we finished watching it, we watched it again. This is one of the sweetest, cutest, most down to earth movies I've seen in a long time. Granted, it is a bit predictable, but the little things you catch the second, third, or even tenth time watching it makes it all worthwhile. If you love comedy and romance, I urge you to watch this movie.

Amazing that so many love this film. The family members act so "cute" that I would move away if they were my family, and the predictability of the film, and the level of the acting finally made me just zip forward to see how it ended. Luckily, it was on TV. So now it is erased. Unwatchable. (I do like good romantic films!)

This is such a truly execptional movie. Its so funny and romantic. It reminds me of old romance movies! Get it you wont be disappointed!

I saw this one when it first came out and thought it was cute. I just saw the DVD recently and fell in love! Always love Minnie Driver and thought she glowed in this movie. David Duchovney was sweet and cute. Carrol O'Connor and the rest of the character were so funny, I hadn't realized this the first time I saw the movie! I will be adding this one to my romantic comedy movie collection!

This movie is a truly touching love story about one woman's search for life, and one man who has had life taken from him. Minnie Driver plays Grace, who is in need of a heart transplant. Carroll O'Connor who plays Grace's grandfather and part-owner of an Irish/Italian restaraunt, receives the miracle he's been praying for when Grace meets Bob. Bob, played by David Duchovny, is a well-respected architect who has recently lost his wife. Grace and Bob are instantly attracted to each other for reasons neither one can explain. Jim Belushi, Bonnie Hunt, and David Alan Grier add whit and charm to this cast of characters. This movie is sure to become one of your favorites.

A delightful movie!!! An outstanding cast; superb acting; uplifting. A movie the WHOLE family can enjoy; a rare commodity these days! I recommend wholeheartedly.

The movie was totally enjoyable. I wish that more movies like this were made. It was funny, sentimental and you could just relax and enjoy.

reallllly good even tho im an x-files fan and have seen almost all of the episodes, I was able to accept David Duchovny as another character and he was amazing. the old italian guys cracked me up. i was laughing out loud most of the movie then crying for the sad parts. amazing even tho i usually dont like romances. defintely see it

The DVD was excellent as far as the audio and visual goes! It was however a depressing movie! I saw it once on TV and I thought it was OK. I happened to like the actors in the show that's why I bought it.

I would not recommend it for anyone, unless they are passionate about seeing Driver, Hunt, Belushi, Duchoveny, and the four fathers.

I really don't care for movies in this genre but I watched it because David Duchovny was in it. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised.

The story is not "saccharinely" sweet as so many of this type are. The humor is very real life and not contrived just to make the audience laugh because something funny happened but laugh because life is so like that.

The characters are developed well, even the supporting cast. The film makes you care for each of them and feel as if you know them.

Yes, the story line...man loses wife to tragedy, woman gets wife's heart as a transplant, man and woman meet and fall in love...is not very plausible, but most things out of Hollywood hardly are. At least this time it comes off as believable.