

Bob works to build the primate house Elizabeth raised money for he is still depressed a year after her death. Grace writes a letter to the donor's family after the surgery, thanking them for the heart she received it takes her over a year to finally find the courage to mail the letter.

Grace's best friend Megan Dayton ( Bonnie Hunt), encourages her to start dating in spite of her self-consciousness about the long surgical scar on her chest. The surgery is successful Grace is able to live a normal life for the first time and plans to make her first airplane trip to Italy to paint. Elizabeth is killed in a car accident leaving the fundraiser, and her heart is transplanted to artist Grace Briggs ( Minnie Driver), who has suffered from heart disease since the age of 14 and is near death. On the night of her fundraiser for a new primate house, Bob promises Elizabeth he'll finish the building. It was Carroll O'Connor's final film before his death the following year.īob and Elizabeth Rueland ( David Duchovny and Joely Richardson) live and work in Chicago - Bob as an architect, Elizabeth as a zoologist at Lincoln Park Zoo. It was filmed in Chicago and was released on Apby Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Return to Me is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Bonnie Hunt and starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver.
