"Return to Me"- 

When this movie first came out, almost every review I saw in 
the papers and Entertainment Weekly claimed that David's 
performance was too reminiscent of Mulder to make his character 
believable. I don't understand this. My first impression of 
David in this movie was that Bob was so *different* than Mulder, 
and I was amazed at David's ability to pull it off. I thought 
he did a very good job. My only problem was the scene at the 
very end of the movie where he seemed to fall right back into 
his Mulder routine again. But on a second viewing of the movie, 
I don't think that was the case.

Okay, brief runthrough: Bob's wife Elizabeth dies tragically in
a car crash. Her heart is donated to an artist, who waitresses 
her grandfather's Irish/Italian restaurant, named Grace (my 
sister's name!). Grace meets Bob when he is coerced into a bad 
blind date at the restaurant. He "accidentally" leaves his cell
phone behind so he can see her again, one thing leads to 
another and they fall in love. Then Grace finds out who's heart
she has...I won't give away any more of the plot.

There is a reason women live longer than men. I believe we know
how much chaos we would leave behind by widowing the men in our
lives and we would rather not let that happen. Bob is the 
perfect example: completely hopeless. Because he is unable to 
cook for himself, he settles for Chinese food apparently every 
day at every meal. The delivery girl (or maybe boy, I don't 
remember) knows him by name and ends their conversation with 
"see you tomorrow." There are take-out Chinese boxes all over 
the house, most likely dating back to his wife death one year 
ago. There is a really cute scene where he tries to make 
microwave popcorn while on a date with Grace. She asks if he 
needs any help and he assures her that "I think I can handle 
microwave popcorn." Then he puts it in the microwave wrong, 
burns it, and tries to cover the smell of burnt popcorn by 
using window cleaner as air freshener. 

Overall, this is a really cute movie. David has described it as
an "old fashioned romance," and it really is. This means, they 
never get any further than necking on Bob's couch. It's nice to
see a movie once in a while that does not have sex and violence
out the wazoo. This is that movie. 

~Diandra Hollman