Movie · 2010 · Drama, Romance · 1h 53m · PG-13 · English
Curator score: 2.0/10 (394K ratings)
Live in the moments.
Overview
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.
Ratings
Curator score: 2.0/10
IMDb: 7.1/10
Letterboxd: 3.20/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 26%
Metacritic: 40
TMDB: 7.1/10
Director
Allen Coulter
Production
Summit Entertainment
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan, Lena Olin, Chris Cooper, Ruby Jerins, Gregory Jbara, Tate Ellington, Kate Burton, Chris McKinney, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Christopher Clawson, Emily Wickersham, Kelli Barrett, Moisés Acevedo, Morgan Turner, Peyton List, Kevin P. McCarthy, Michael Hobbs, Noel Rodriguez
Where to watch
Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
A glossy, emotionally earnest romance-drama with a notorious ending that overwhelms the rest of the film. If you’re curious about the twist or a specific early-2010s melodramatic mood, it may be worth a look; otherwise the writing and character work are too uneven to recommend broadly.
Best for
viewers interested in infamous movie endings
fans of star-driven early-2010s melodrama
people who don’t mind a heavy-handed romance built around grief
Skip if
you want a consistently strong script and payoff
you’re sensitive to exploitative uses of real-world tragedy
you prefer romance dramas with subtle characterization
Overview
Remember Me is built like a tender grief drama, then steered toward a finale that has made the film far more notorious than beloved. The central relationship has some chemistry and the movie does capture the raw, suspended feeling of young people trying to love through loss, but it often leans on familiar beats and thinly sketched emotional turns.
Worth noting
What lingers most is the tonal mismatch: a soft-focus romantic drama suddenly asking to be remembered for a historical gut punch. That choice has kept the film in circulation as a conversation piece, but it also exposes how little of the surrounding story is sturdy enough to support it.
Bottom line
If you’re watching for the cast, the mood, or the cultural infamy, there’s curiosity value here. As a drama, though, it’s more notable for its ending than for the journey that gets there.
Top Letterboxd reviews
beck (3★) · 7291 likes
y’all can’t tell me the end of this movie isn’t one of the top ten plot twists in cinematic history
jordyn (0.5★) · 6387 likes
nooooooo don’t die in 9/11 you’re so sexy ahaha
emily (2.5★) · 3640 likes
im really upset because of
1. the ending and
2. the fact that robert pattinson will never marry me
aliyah · 3384 likes
seen a lot of you call this ending a ‘plot twist’ and it’s... bold to pretend that there was enough plot to be twisted
idil (3.5★) · 2584 likes
omg i cant believe that bush killed robert pattinson :/