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Remember Me

You're unlikely to follow the advice contained in the title of unfortunate family drama, writes Philip French

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• • Philip French
  • The Observer, Sunday 4 April 2010
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They really shouldn't have (l-r): Robert Patttinson, Emilie de Ravin and Pierce Brosnan in Remember Me. Photograph: Myles Aronowitz

1. Remember Me
2. Production year: 2010
3. Country: USA
4. Cert (UK): 12A
5. Runtime: 112 mins
6. Directors: Allen Coulter
7. Cast: Chris Cooper, Emilie de Ravin, Lena Olin, Martha Plimpton, Pierce Brosnan, Robert Pattinson
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This ineffectual family drama brings together a cop's daughter whose mother was killed in a New York subway mugging and a rich businessman's alienated son (Robert Pattinson pouting and strutting as if auditioning for a remake of Rebel Without a Cause). Unwisely, some would say inexcusably, it uses the destruction of the World Trade Centre to resolve its issues