VARIOUS: DAVID DUCHOVNY AND MINNIE DRIVER ATTEND PREMIERE OF THEIR NEW FILM "RETURN TO ME"

Record ID: 389094

  • Title: VARIOUS: DAVID DUCHOVNY AND MINNIE DRIVER ATTEND PREMIERE OF THEIR NEW FILM "RETURN TO ME"
  • Date: 13th April 2000
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID DUCHOVNY SAYING "This is really a one of a kind film." MINNIE DRIVER SAYING "We've come full circle." DUCHOVNY SAYING "Yeah. I think it's both very old fashioned but I think also has a very modern sensibility." DRIVER SAYING "You can't make a purely anachronistic film nowadays. There's too much technology. There's too much knowledge, but what you can do is remember to take the values and put a lot of that comedy of what's funny and what's true about situational comedy and the relationship. DUCHOVNY SAYING "Yeah, we actually have to make a relationship play in the movie rather than rely on a nicely lit love scene that makes everybody think we're in love." DRIVER SAYING "Where they really are in love, or something blowing up which means they're going to have to stick together because they're in it." DUCHOVNY SAYING "So, it's like we're doing it with our hands tied behind our backs and we're still doing it. We're showing off. Look what we can do." DRIVER SAYING "We're doing it solar-powered and they're all like with their nuclear fusion."
  • Embargoed: 28th April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA461RSES8L529Q81NZ3Z2HA945
  • Story Text: Hollywood heavies David Duchovny and Minnie Driver were joined by their co-stars for the world premiere of "Return To Me" in Los Angeles."Return To Me" marks the big screen return of beloved American television actor Carroll O'Connor who played racist Archie Bunker on the hit television show "All in the Family" and Chief Gillespie on the series "In the Heat of the Night."
    Return to Me, Bonnie Hunt's feature directorial debut, is a simplistic, romantic comedy about the mysterious workings of fate, in this case, a love affair between a young widower and a waitress who, unbeknownst to him, has received his late wife's transplanted heart.
    The film opens with the happy marriage of Bob Rueland (Duchovny), a successful architect-engineer, and Elizabeth (Joely Richardson), an ambitious zoologist who devotes herself to the construction of a new gorilla habitat at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, until her untimely death in an accident.
    Living in the same city is Grace Briggs (Driver), a waitress at O'Reilly's, no doubt the town's only Irish-Italian restaurant.Living with her loving grandpa Marty (O'Connor), Grace is a shy woman about to receive a new lease on life through a heart transplant.Since the audience knows that Grace's new heart will come from Elizabeth, the real puzzle is the specific circumstances under which Bob and Grace will meet and when will Grace tell him about her link to his wife.
    In the wake of his mate's sudden death, Bob sinks into deep depression, his only consolation being the companionship of their dog.Matchmaking efforts by his veterinarian friend Charlie (David Alan Grier) prove fruitless as Bob is not quite ready to start over.That is, until he meets Grace at her family's restaurant, which he patronizes on what turns out to be a disastrous blind date.Shy Grace, who's haunted by the tragic circumstances that took her mother from her when she was a child, begins to blossom as Bob pays more and more attention to her.
    About half of the yarn is set at O'Reilly's, a venerable joint where a lively clique of oldsters watch over Grace -- and dispense wisdom.The troupe includes grandpa Marty, Italian uncle Angelo (Robert Loggia), lonely-hearts Emmett (Eddie Jones), Wally (William Bronder) and Sophie (Marianne Muellerleile).
    Duchovny and O'Connor have a lot at stake with their respective roles.For O'Connor, it's the first time in nearly 25 years that he's graced the "big screen".
    The American-born actor spent 13-years on prime time television in the legendary role of the self-righteous, working-class bigot Archie Bunker on the hit programme "All in the Family".Since the conclusion of "All in the Family" in 1983, O'Connor starred in two Broadway plays, TV specials and three movies for television.He also starred in, executive produced and served as head writer for 8 seasons on the critically acclaimed series "In the Heat of the Night".
    At stake for Duchovny is his acting future with the rumoured ending of "The X-Files" at the conclusion of this season.
    Duchovny's best known for his role as FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television super hit "The X-Files".Prior to his six years as Mulder, Duchovny earned fans around the world as the cross-dressing detective Dennis/Denise Bryson on the breakthrough television series "Twin Peaks".Duchovny's film credits include last summers big screen version of "The X-Files", "Playing God" with co-stars Timothy Hutton and Angelina Jolie, and "Kalifornia" opposite Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis.
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