Return To Me

The longing for destiny is nowhere more acute than in our romantic lives. Who among us has not hoped to stumble by total accident into the woman or man of our dreams? Who has not imagined that perfect connection, the one that feels instantaneous yet promises to last a lifetime? We have all crossed our fingers for that ineffable, magical link to someone else's heart . . . but what if such a wish literally came true? Return To Me is an enchanted romantic comedy starring Minnie Driver and David Duchovny. David Duchovny stars as a recently widowed architect who is trying to get his life back. Minnie Driver is a waitress working in an Irish-Italian restaurant who has just received a new lease on life through a heart transplant. Drawn together by the playful fates, they must prove that love is made possible by much more than a few fast heartbeats. This sophisticated contemporary fairy tale, directed and co-written by Bonnie Hunt, melds heartache and humor, bittersweet yearning and bewitching romance as it spins a life-affirming story about the struggle to make sense of love, loss and the unexpected. The setting for this tale is a whimsical Chicago - rooted in offbeat Italian, Irish and Polish traditions, yet tinged with something slightly magical. This is where Bob Rueland (Duchovny) has led a blessedly ordinary life as an architectural engineer and loving husband until one nightmarish night takes the life of his driven zoologist wife Elizabeth (Joely Richardson). Haunted by her memory and still desperately in love, Bob buries himself in work, hoping to complete the project that meant more to Elizabeth than anything else: building an expansive new gorilla habitat for the primates she was working with at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Nearly a year after Elizabeth's death, despite the match-making efforts of his veterinarian friend Dr. Charlie Johnson (David Alan Grier), Bob is still not quite ready to start all over again. Meanwhile, across town, a waitress who has been wait...