Return to Me

Return to Me is a romantic love story that is rather predictable but nonetheless quite entertaining.

Elizabeth Rueland is a dedicated employee at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Her dream is to give the ape Sydney better living conditions. She is happily married to the contractor and architect Robert, who is to build the new ape enclosure. Their happiness is short-lived, however, for Elizabeth is seriously injured in a road accident. She dies, but the doctors manage to save her heart, which is transplanted into the heart patient Grace.

When Grace and Robert meet by chance at the restaurant where Grace works, something clicks in the most wondrous way. They meet again, but even though she feels that Robert is "the one", Grace does not dare tell him about her transplant, and things go really wrong when she discovers that she has been given his late wife's heart.

There is certainly ample material for melodrama, but fortunately the tone never becomes really syrupy and sentimental. That is due not least to the humour and the good performances.