Remember Me (2010)

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In 1991, a 11-year-old girl named Alyssa “Ally” Craig is with her mother on the New York City Subway platform, on the F Line at 18th Avenue and McDonald Avenue elevated station in Brooklyn. Suddenly, she witnesses her mother being murdered by muggers. She is scarred from the events, never going to the subway again.

Ten years after her mother’s death, a 21-year-old Ally (Emilie De Ravin) is a student at NYU. She lives at home with her overprotective father, Neil (Chris Cooper), a NYPD detective who worries that she is becoming independent and will run into danger.

Tyler Hawkins (Robert Pattinson) is a moody, directionless, yet good-moraled 21-year-old, who is auditing classes at NYU and working in the university bookstore. He has had a strained relationship with his businessman father, Charles (Pierce Brosnan), since his brother Michael’s suicide. Tyler now writes to Michael in his diary. Charles appears to ignore his youngest child, Caroline (Ruby Jerins), of whom Tyler is very protective, walking her to school every day. His closest friend is his roommate Aidan (Tate Ellington).

In the romantic drama Remember Me, Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has had a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family. Tyler didn’t think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through, until the day he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unexpectedly heals and inspires him, he begins to fall for her. Through their love, he begins to find happiness and meaning in his life.

Infused with humor and romance, “Remember Me” tells the unforgettable love story of two young people who learn how important it is to love passionately and live loudly everyday of one’s life.

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, Pierce Brosnan, Athena Currey, Tate Ellington, Ruby Jerins, Angela Pietropinto, Moisés Acevedo, Noel Rodriguez and Caitlyn Rund. 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 July 6, Remember Me accumulated a total of $56,032,889 at the box office.

Director’s Statement

When I first read Will Fetter’s script, REMEMBER ME (at that time entitled MEMOIRS), three of its many qualities struck a deep chord within me: first of all, it presented New York City at a particularly important time in its history. As a New Yorker, I reveled in the opportunity to accurately depict that time in a city that I know so well and have loved so long.

Second, it presented an honest and unvarnished story of young love–a subject I’d been interested in dramatizing for many years. And third, from its opening scene, the script was imbued with a consistent and timely theme, namely: what happens when a bolt-from-the-blue collides with and shatters our well-ordered world? How does one survive these unexpected and inexplicable shocks? And how does it alter us as human beings?

Simply put, while REMEMBER ME was both an intimate story of the love that grows between two young people and a finely drawn portrait of how two different families are affected by their own particular version of a sudden and tragic event, the script ultimately became an exploration of the larger themes of love, loss and the evanescence of life. — Allen Coulter

A Love Letter to New York

Both director Allen Coulter and producer Nick Osborne felt that filming on location in New York City would ensure that the city became a character in itself.

Coulter remarks, “As a person who lives here, I always feel very fortunate to find anything that takes place in New York. It’s a running joke with my wife–if it says on the first page, ‘We open in New York,’ I say, ‘I like this script,’ even before I’ve read the rest of it.

“We really looked at the locations where we wanted to shoot. We didn’t want to shoot at ridiculously iconic places, but at the same time we wanted to give it a real New York feel,” Osborne says. “Naturally, there are obstacles you have to navigate shooting in the city but it was particularly difficult this time because of the enormous popularity and notoriety of Rob.

“It’s been a little crazy with the paparazzi following us around” says Coulter. “Some days we’ve had thirty paparazzi, some days we’ve had three, four hundred fans at our locations. But we got it done and I think it looks beautiful. Jonathan Freeman, the D.P., is phenomenal and I think it shows in what we’ve shot. But it’s a New York story and something of a love letter to New York, so it’s worth it because the city…there’s no replacing it.”

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Remember Me (2010)

Directed by: Allen Coulter
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, Pierce Brosnan, Athena Currey, Tate Ellington, Ruby Jerins, Angela Pietropinto, Moisés Acevedo, Noel Rodriguez, Caitlyn Rund
Screenplay by: Will Fetters, Jenny Lumet
Production Design by: Scott P. Murphy
Cinematography by: Jonathan Freeman
Film Editing by: Andrew Mondshein
Costume Design by: Susan Lyall
Set Decoration by: Diane Lederman
Music by: Marcelo Zarvos
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language and smoking.
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: March 12, 2010