What Are The Critics Saying?

"In his first official post-Twilight-craze-outing, Robert Pattinson stars as Tyler, the black sheep of a well to do family torn apart by the suicide of their eldest son, with Pattinson stuck in a permanent melancholy while sucking down a never ending amount of booze and cigarettes. It will be roles like this which will make him an actor to remember. Despite the melodramatics (or perhaps because of it), Pattinson lives up to the expectations placed on him." MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS "The production is clean and polished, with Marcelo Zarvos' understated though persistent score and Jonathan Freeman's meticulous cinematography bringing notable sparkle to this heartfelt drama. A strong romantic drama in which Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin really shine. "Remember Me" is a smart, engaging drama about young love flourishing amid sadness and loss." Kirk Honeycutt HOLLYWOOD REPORTER "This is, at heart, a story about how people get on with their lives after overwhelming loss and learn to live with grief without succumbing to it. To call Remember Me a four-hankie weeper does not begin to describe it. Allen Coulter, a recurring producer and director on HBO's The Sopranos, has surrounded Pattinson with a stable of actors strong enough to force him into his 'A' game." Rene Rodriguez MIAMI HERALD "You have to give credit to a film which starts powerfully and grabs you by the eyeballs. That's certainly the case here. A dramatic sequence with striking camera angles and lighting makes an instant impression and sets the mood for this gritty romance about two dysfunctional families. Aided by strong acting and an intelligent script, "Remember Me" is a cut above most romantic films. "Remember Me" may remembered after other romantic movies are forgotten for its compelling performances and intriguing script. It certainly surprised this reviewer, as I was expecting much less. Be warned: the shock twist at the end is a gut punch. " John Bale THE BLURB

"Anyone longing to watch Pattinson do his best James Dean will see it in this deliberately paced story set in the summer of 2001. Pattinson portrays the moody Tyler with admirable reserve and Dean-like ease. Despite wearing his demons on his sleeve he’s oddly likable, you root for him but don’t really know why. He’s matched perfectly by de Ravin as Ally." Pete Hammond BOXOFFICE I was resigned to dragging out some lazy, easy Twilight dissing in response to "Remember Me". Director Allen Coulter avoids all sense of the shiny or the glossy or the phony with the romance. "Remember Me" turns out to be quietly charming and coarsely handsome, a sensitively observed story about young people in love seen through a keen eye for the unglamorous side of New York City that we don’t often see on film these days." MaryAnn Johanson FLICK FILOSOPHER "Director Allen Coulter, whose previous feature was Hollywoodland as well as episodes of The Sopranos, lovingly crafts a picture of New York at in important time in its history. He’s clearly comfortable with his actors and gains excellent performances. Credit must go to Will Fetters’ script with its layers of meaning and convincing dialogue. Cinematography makes use of colour to suit the mood, with impressive camerawork." John Bale THE BLURB "There is something strange about "Remember Me". I found myself disbelieving just about every emotion, every motivation, nothing seemed to hang together so that the whole thing became a bit tedious. And I know Robert Pattinson is every young women’s soulful heartthrob but he’s such a mopey actor. Mind you he isn’t irritating like Tate Ellington who plays his mate." Margaret Pomeranz AT THE MOVIES

The Inside Story of Remember Me It was four years ago that Trevor Engelson read the script. "And so I read it. Will Fetters’ first draft blew me away. I was utterly moved by it and I called Trevor and I said, 'We have to make this movie.' We took it around to a lot of financiers," Producer and a founding partner of L.A. based Underground Films, Nick Osborne remembers. "we took it to one actor who wanted to do it, who then fell out. And then at some point I got it to Allen Coulter. And Allen and I worked on it with Will for a while. Then Rob came on board, which really helped. It was just before Twilight though, so it was bizarre. He read the script before he really had any, I suppose, 'juice' or real name recognition within the industry." Osborne describes what screenwriter Will Fetters meant to the production, saying, "Without Will, we have nothing. He thought of this story and where it was going, and when Allen, Rob and I read it initially, we all felt that this is something we’re going to commit to and we’re going to stick with. Because it’s not easy getting movies made in Hollywood nowadays, and it’s definitely not easy getting dramas made. Dramas are the hardest of all. What’s interesting is that Will was Tyler when he wrote the script. He was this young, angry guy wanting to make something of himself in the world. But he didn’t know how to do it and how to get there. And he had all these deep thoughts and all this kind of angst. I think what comes out of Tyler Hawkins is Will during that time. And that’s why it feels authentic." All the major preliminary aspects of the production fell together based on the strength of the script. "Because we got the actors we wanted, we got the director we wanted, and we've built off that. We have a phenomenal film." Pierce Brosnan ("The Matador") says the script provides a great role for an actor to play, and attests that, "Will Fetters created dimensional characters and emotional characters caught in the conflict of life. And when you get to the end of it, it really just punches you in the gut. I'm very grateful for this role. I'm at a place in my career now where I can go off and do anything I want. This is a really, really good role in the hands of a really fine director and an ensemble cast which is so well matched to their parts." "Everyone who read the script, virtually to a person, was moved by it and drawn to it. It’s all because Will Fetters had this inspiration. When I signed on to do it, the only thing that I really wanted was to continue to push for the story to be as truthful as I knew how to make it," Allen Coulter (who directed eight episodes of the TV hit "Sex and the City") reflected. "For instance, as a New Yorker I felt I needed to address the very small things that you have to be New Yorker to know, whether it has to do with character, location or just some kind of atmosphere. This was not something that Will could know because he’s not from here." Both director Coulter and Osborne felt that filming on location in New York City would ensure that the city became a character in itself. "As a person who lives here, I always feel very fortunate to find anything that takes place in New York," Coulter remarked. Does filming on location have any drawbacks? "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." Allen Coulter and Nick Osborne were both intensely involved in the casting process from the very beginning. Says Coulter: "We had a meeting with Rob Pattinson after Summit expressed some interest. We had lunch with him about a year ago and liked him and were interested in him right away and he was interested too, so that sort of started the process." One of a director’s greatest advantages is a production well cast and it is in Coulter’s nature to be involved in the casting process every step of the way. "I can’t imagine working on a project where I was not as involved as I can be in the casting. It was just me and Nick Osborne, working with Joanna Colbert and Rich Mento, and then Summit weighed in. We ended up with a cast that both Nick and I were thrilled with." And the basic storyline is? "The movie is about love and loss," Osborne offered. "It’s about trying to figure out one’s life and why certain events occur and maybe not coming up with the answers, but approaching an answer." "I think these are questions we all deal with till the end of our days but especially in our early twenties." Robert Pattinson who was cast as Tyler Hawkins, describes his character as "a young guy who’s a little bit lost. He has very wealthy parents, but he’s very self-righteous, and a bit of a waster. He has an attitude, which a lot of twenty-one year old guys have, where they think they know better than everyone else, but don’t feel the need to prove it in any way whatsoever. And he eventually meets this girl who shows him, in a roundabout kind of way, how to mature." Pattinson's character is afflicted with a sort of ennui, in a state of arrested emotional development: "Tyler has all these grudges and grievances which he’s held for years and years and they’ve all just been: not even simmering; they’re just old. He and Charles have had the same fights over and over and everyone else sees them as being old. Even Tyler, himself, is sick of having the same rages." Pierce Brosnan describes Pattinson as "a young man who's just catapulted into the stratosphere of fame and I think what I've seen he's acquitted himself grandly. You know he has a good heart to him. He's got a great look and he's in touch with his own sensing and intuition and instincts. You want the best for him. You want to see him fly high and wide." The team underwent a long search for the perfect young woman to play the role of Ally Craig. "We really saw something like a hundred and eighty young women," Coulter said. "It was a very tricky thing. We wanted to find someone who could be a good match for Rob as far as the romantic entanglement, but we also needed somebody who could be tough and stand up to him." It was Australian actress, "Lost" Star, Screen Actors Guild Award winner and yes, natural blonde Emilie de Ravin who exuded an enormous amount of charm, proved irresistible when it came to casting her in the lead role. "It's not your typical love story," says NIDA graduate de Ravin (TV'S "Roswell"). "These two characters, Tyler and Ally, meet each other in unusual circumstances and they’ve both had very traumatic pasts. Their relationship is so beautifully formed and so realistic, and the movie revolves around that. It goes deep into how people really feel about each other, and the reality of, not just the fluff of relationships, but really what goes on." Coulter was drawn to Pierce Brosnan because of the film, "Matador", where Brosnan showed he was willing to take chances as an actor. "You know, I was thinking about that while I was also trying to imagine someone who could be the father of a guy this good looking, and I thought, 'Well, Pierce Brosnan could do it.' Nick liked the idea and when we pitched it to Summit they were also thrilled with the possibility." Nick Osborne was looking for the right balance of stoicism, and perhaps some semblance of humanity in Charles Hawkins. "Pierce was everything I believe the character was from the get go." "Pierce did a really interesting performance. He’s a really, really lovely guy as well," Pattinson noted. According to Nick Osborne, there’s not much more you can say about 2003 Oscar ® winner Chris Cooper ("Adaptation") except that he’s a "brilliant, brilliant actor. Everything he does in this film, from the opening scene where he’s grieving for his wife: the way he’s protective of Ally; he just brings it." "He's just an amazing actor and it we were lucky to get him," says Coulter, "If he hadn’t liked the script, it would have been the end of the discussion. Also, if his wife, Marianne, hadn’t like the script, that also would have been the end of the discussion, but once he read the script it wasn't a struggle." Pattinson says that what's most surprising about Chris is how strong he is, physically. "I mean, it’s unbelievable. You really don’t see it, even when you’re kind of going through the motions. He looked quite a lot smaller than me when I was standing next to him. And then we got to the parts where he’s beating me up: he could pretty easily beat me up in reality. Which was a shocking thing!" 1980 Ingmar Bergman Award winner, Swedish-born actress Lena Olin, was cast as Tyler's mother, Diane Hirsch. "I had just seen Lena’s performance in "The Reader" "and I was so impressed with her humanity and her naturalism and unpretentiousness," Osbourne recalls. His immediate reaction? "She would be a great parent for this beautiful boy." "She just leapt out at me." 2000 Empire Award winner Brosnan ("The World Is Not Enough") says, "Lena left an indelible impression on me years ago with "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and has done so in every role that she's ever done since. Our characters have very little time together on the screen, but nevertheless, she is a very beautiful seductive player." Brosnan ("Evelyn") has called her "a button of a beauty," and Nick Osborne too was wowed by the talented Ruby Jerins. "She’s amazing: you truly think that she and Rob are brother and sister in this film. He just fell in love with her on the set and he was just amazed at how much she could give, how she could improvise." "Ruby has something about her which is really easy to play off. It’s quite nice being in a scene where you can just watch someone and be completely unaware that you’re in a scene," Pattinson offers. Tate Ellington ("The Elephant King") plays Tyler's flatmate Aidan Hall. Aidan provides some comic relief in the film. "Tate was a little bit of a leap of faith because he’s not quite what we pictured," Coulter recalls. "Neither myself nor Nick nor Summit. But Nick was very encouraging of my instincts to go with Tate." One of the filmmaker's primary goals is to engage the viewers to identify with conflict of the characters. "Everyone has felt loss in their life," says Osborne, "at some point or other. Everyone has felt frustration; most people have had that incredibly passionate first love affair, which I think this invokes. We’ve all been frustrated by our parents and I think what’s wonderful is that, to a certain extent, our characters work out those issues through the course of the film." Coulter thinks cinemagoers "will relate very much for that reason. And presumably it will help the audience understand these characters, each of whom has something in their past that has caused them great personal and emotional agony." Coulter also hopes audiences "feel it's a very accurate picture of falling in love. I hope that they enjoy the twists and turns and the surprises and that they enjoy the wild ride of the story. And, of course, I hope that they’re moved in the end and that they leave the theater filled with questions and thoughts about their own lives." What's The Story

Tyler Hawkins is a rebellious young man living in New York City who has had a strained relationship with his father, high profile lawyer Charles Hawkins, ever since a tragic death tore their family apart. Anger and resentment, it seems, are the young mans constant companion. Tyler didn’t think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through until the day he met Ally through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unexpectedly heals and inspires him, he ineviltably falls for her. Ally too has suffered a loss, but a much younger age. The after-effect is that her father, a police officer, has become over protective and intrudes in her life. Through their love, Tyler begins to find happiness and meaning in his life. But just as he does, hidden secrets are revealed, and the circumstances that brought them both together, will threaten to tear them apart.

The Verdict "I've made no secret of the fact that Twilight star Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen in the franchise, leaves me cold. Up until now, that is! Finally, here is a role in which audiences other than deluded tweeners, teeners, desperate housewives and cougars, will discover 23 y.o. Pattinson really does have 'acting chops'. "Remember Me" boasts a first-rate cast including Pierce Brosnan, Oscar ® winner Chris Cooper, Lena Olin ("Chocolat") and well-known Australian actress, Emilie de Ravin. Despite the apparent star power (or perhaps because of it), Pattinson gives a standout performance as Tyler Hawkins, troubled, angst filled, guilt riddled young man, who lands on his feet through unusal circumstances, when he meets Ally Craig. It really is a joy to see him give such an engaging performance: one I hope will be followed by even bigger and better things. If you happen to be a Pattinson fan or you're weighing up whether to see "Remember Me", then check out the recent TODAY segment on the NINE Network, presented by Richard Wilkins featuring the cast members. In his introduction Wilkins notes of Pattison: "Now he's showing us another side of his talents." Be warned that despite being a story of love and reconciliation, it ends as a tear-jerker. Well worth the effort. 4 STARS." Who's Playing Who?

Caitlyn Paige Rund Moisés Acevedo Noel Rodriguez Kevin McCarthy Chris Cooper Robert Pattinson Emilie de Ravin Pierce Brosnan Tate Ellington Ruby Jerins Lena Olin Gregory Jbara Tricia Paoluccio Meghan Markle Kate Burton

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Alyssa Craig 11y.o. Mugger Mugger Police Chief Sgt Neil Craig Tyler Hawkins Ally Craig Charles Hawkins Aidan Hall Caroline Hawkins Diane Hirsch Les Hirsch Receptionist Megan Janine

The Production Team

Director Screenplay Producers Original Music Cinematography Film Editor Casting Production Designer Costume Design Key Hair Stylist

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Allen Coulter Will Fetters Trevor Engelson & Nick Osborne Marcelo Zarvos Jonathan Freeman Andrew Mondshein Joanna Colbert & Richard Mento Scott P Murphy Susan Lyall Sherry Heart

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