Remember Me (2010 film)

For the Star Trek episode, see Remember Me (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

Remember Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Allen Coulter
Produced by	Nicholas Osborne Trevor Engelson Erik Feig Robert Pattinson
Written by	Will Fetters
Starring	Robert Pattinson Emilie de Ravin Chris Cooper Lena Olin Pierce Brosnan Martha Plimpton Tate Ellington Ruby Jerins
Music by	Marcelo Zarvos
Cinematography	Jonathan Freeman
Editing by	Andrew Mondshein
Studio	Underground Films
Distributed by	Summit Entertainment
Release date(s)	March 12, 2010 (2010-03-12)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$16 million
Box office	$56,223,951

Remember Me is a 2010 American romantic coming of age drama film directed by Allen Coulter, and screenplay by Will Fetters. It stars Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, and Pierce Brosnan.

Plot

In 1991, an 11-year-old girl named Alyssa "Ally" Craig witnesses the murder of her mother on a New York City Subway platform, on the F Line at 18th Avenue and McDonald Avenue elevated station in Brooklyn.

Ten years later, a 21-year-old Ally (Emilie De Ravin) is a student at New York University. She lives at home with her overprotective detective father, Neil (Chris Cooper). Tyler Hawkins (Robert Pattinson), a moody, directionless 21-year-old, is auditing classes at NYU and working in a bookstore. He has had a strained relationship with his businessman father, Charles (Pierce Brosnan) since his brother Michael's suicide (after which Tyler got Michael's name tattooed on his chest). Charles appears to ignore his youngest child, Caroline (Ruby Jerins), with whom Tyler is very close.

One night, Tyler and his roommate Aidan (Tate Ellington) find themselves in trouble with Neil. Later, Aidan sees Neil dropping Ally off at NYU. He decides to retaliate against the detective by persuading Tyler to sleep with and ultimately dump Ally. Tyler reluctantly agrees to meet her. After spending some time together, Ally and Tyler bond over the losses in their lives and begin to fall in love. After Ally sleeps over at Tyler's house, she and her father have a fight, ending with Neil hitting her. Ally then moves in with Tyler and Aidan. Meanwhile, Caroline, who is a budding artist, is featured in an art show. Tyler tries to convince his father to attend the show, but he is forced away on business. Tyler angrily confronts him after the show, which drives a further wedge between the two.

Later, Neil's friend, a cop, recognizes Tyler with Ally on a train coming from a beach holiday with his family. Neil breaks into Tyler's apartment and confronts Tyler. Tyler provokes Neil by confessing to Aidan's plan and his initial reason for meeting Ally, which in turn forces Tyler to confess everything to Ally. She leaves him angrily and returns to her father's home. The couple remain alienated until Aidan visits her to explain that only he is to blame, and that Tyler was sincerely in love with her. They are then shown to be back together, as they walk with Caroline in the park.

Before this reunion, Caroline is bullied by a group of classmates at a birthday party; they cut her hair off, and when they tease her in front of Tyler, he turns violent and ends up in jail again. Charles is impressed that Tyler stood up for his sister, and they begin to reconnect.

Later, Charles asks Tyler to meet with him and his lawyers at his office. Charles takes Caroline to school and is late, so Tyler waits in his office, where he sees, on Charles's computer, a screensaver of pictures of Tyler, Michael, and Caroline when they were younger.

Caroline is then shown in class and the teacher draws her attention to the board, where the date is revealed as September 11, 2001. Tyler looks out at Manhattan from the window of his father's office—which is located in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He's standing at the exact point that Flight 11 hit the tower. Once the 9/11 terrorist attacks begin, the rest of the family (along with Aidan and Ally) are seen looking horrified at the towers before the camera pans over the rubble, showing Tyler's diary. Tyler is later buried next to Michael.

Some time later, Caroline (whose hair has grown back) and Charles seem to have a healthy father-daughter relationship. Aidan, who has since gotten a tattoo of Tyler's name on his arm, is working hard in school and Ally is finally taking the subway again, after having avoided it since her mother's death. The film ends as she looks at the camera with a small, sad smile.

Cast

• Robert Pattinson as Tyler Hawkins
• Emilie de Ravin as Ally Craig
• Chris Cooper as Neil Craig, Ally's father.
• Lena Olin as Diane Hirsch, Tyler's mother.
• Pierce Brosnan as Charles Hawkins, Tyler's father.
• Martha Plimpton as Helen Craig, Ally's mother.
• Ruby Jerins as Caroline Hawkins, Tyler's little sister.
• Gregory Jbara as Les Hirsch, Diane's new partner
• Tate Ellington as Aidan Hall
• Kate Burton as Janine, Charles' secretary and assistant
• Peyton Roi List as Samantha
• Chris McKinney as Leo

Premiere

The film premiered on March 1, 2010 at the Paris Theatre in New York City, and received its wide release on March 12, 2010. It is rated 12A in the UK and PG13 in the USA.

Home release

Summit Entertainment announced the DVD and Blu-ray release of June 22, 2010.

Reception

Critical response

The film currently holds a "Rotten" rating of 28% based on 108 reviews on the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The site's consensus states, "Its leads are likeable, but Remember Me suffers from an overly maudlin script and a borderline offensive final twist." It also holds a "mixed or average" score of 40 out of 100 on Metacritic.

Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, stating the "scenes between Pattinson and de Ravin exude genuine charm." Honeycutt goes on to say that the score and cinematography brought "notable sparkle to this heartfelt drama." Roger Ebert generally liked the film, giving it three out of four stars and characterizing it as a "well-made movie. I cared about the characters. I felt for them. Liberate them from the plot's destiny, which is an anvil around their necks, and you might have something" but goes on to say it "tries to borrow profound meaning, but succeeds only in upstaging itself so overwhelmingly that its characters become irrelevant".

Jake Coyle of The Associated Press did not favor the film and said the "most pleasing thing about [the film] is its boldness. It may be affected, but [it] is at least aiming for an intriguing character study — a positive sign in the young career of Pattinson" whom he says steps away from "Twilight, apparently in search of his Five Easy Pieces or Rebel Without a Cause." Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a D+, calling it a "shameless contraption of ridiculously sad things befalling attractive people". Schwarzbaum was also critical of Pattinson's acting and the script. Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe gave the film a half star out of four, commenting that the film "crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches." Other critics also found the movie's invocation of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center offensive and exploitative, such as Lisa Kennedy of the Denver Post: "The finale manages to be tasteful and exploitative at the same time. It touts forgiveness while being mildly infuriating. Such is the danger of borrowing from the enormous to merely entertain. If that. Forgettable should be the last thing a movie touching on the events of 9/11 should be. Yet 'Remember Me' is just that."

Box office

Remember Me opened in fifth place, behind Alice in Wonderland, Green Zone, She's Out of My League, and Shutter Island. It grossed $8,089,139 in its first weekend. As of June 3, Remember Me accumulated a total of $56,223,951 at the box office.

Accolades

Year	Ceremony	Award	Result
2010	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie: Drama	Nominated
		Choice Movie Actor: Drama - Robert Pattinson	Won
	Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Movie Star - Robert Pattinson	Nominated
	Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Actor - Robert Pattinson	Nominated

Soundtrack

The official Remember Me soundtrack was released on March 9, 2010. A score soundtrack was also released which was composed by Marcelo Zarvos. The movie consisted of 26 credited songs, while the soundtrack 14 of them, including songs by Sigur Rós, The Beta Band, Ani Difranco, Supergrass and National Skyline. A Pakistani song, Saason ki Mala Peh Simroon by Nusrat Ali Fateh Khan was also heard in the movie when Tyler takes Alley on their first date at Gandhi Restaurant.

External links

• Official website
• Remember Me at the Internet Movie Database
• Remember Me at AllRovi
• Remember Me at Rotten Tomatoes
• Remember Me at Metacritic
• Remember Me at Box Office Mojo