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What starts as a somewhat simple romantic drama gets elevated dramatically by an ending that few will see coming. Robert Pattinson puts away the fangs but keeps his brood on while he comes to terms with life, love and past family tragedies.

Using its setting in New York city as another character, we get to know Tyler, a young twenty something boy on the way to becoming a man. Through circumstance, he starts to go out with a policeman’s daughter and she helps him to become less isolated and to start to repair a fractured relationship with his high-powered lawyer father.

This budding romance is a bit by the numbers and Pattinson seems to know only one facial expression but the quality of the acting by the other players helps to propel the story forward. Pierce Brosnan, the always-dependable Chris Cooper and child actor Ruby Jerins all put in consistent and believable performances.

The film has a satisfactory ending but then the filmmakers just can’t help themselves with a number of gratuitous scenes that seem to have come from excessive test screenings. It slightly devalues the film but having said that even with the overstated ending, my film critic friends and I were still talking about it long after the final credits had finished.
Rob Hudson
www.rememberme-movie.com


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