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<\/a><\/p>\nHallmark Hall of Fame<\/p>\n
Sunday, April 21<\/p>\n
ABC -check local listings<\/p>\n
Molly (Alexis Bledel) is a sweet, ditzy, waitress and college student in New Orleans on a first name basis with the traffic man who comes to take the boot off of her car over and over again. She is romantically challenged and shares an apartment with Jolene (Valery Azlynn) who constantly nags her to find a good man. Molly has college loans but is in a waiting pattern because she is expecting her portion of an inheritance to come through any day. Her dream is to open a flower shop.<\/p>\n
One day a man, Gus (Zachary Levi) comes into the caf\u00e9 where Molly works and they chat a little. She notices that he is talking into a recorder as he waits for a friend. \u00a0When he leaves the table to take a phone call she leaves a message for him that he discovers that night.\u00a0 Within a couple of days they meet again when Molly goes into the jewelry shop where Gus works. She pawns a valuable ring for cash to pay her parking tickets.\u00a0 Though Gus does not remember Molly he likes her and instead of putting the ring on sale puts it aside with her name on it.<\/p>\n
Gus lives in an apartment filled with notes on the cabinets and walls and a file that tells him to read it every morning.\u00a0 Soon enough we learn, though it takes Molly longer, that Gus had an aneurism deep in his brain that basically destroyed the part that controls short-term memory. His long-term memory is in tact but he can make no new memories and must begin each day anew.\u00a0 His sister Lucy (Merritt Weaver) devised a system for him to manage each day. He can no longer work as a scientist but is able to function well at the jewelry shop because it is owned by family friends that he remembers.<\/p>\n
Although Molly is confused by Gus\u2019s memory loss, she thinks he\u2019s like her, just chronically forgetful. They start seeing each other and Molly is falling in love.<\/p>\n
SPOILER ALERT<\/strong><\/p>\nIf you saw the 2004 film \u201cFifty First Dates\u201d starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore as a woman incapable of forming new memories, you know the story. To its credit, \u201cRemember Sunday\u201d is a more calm and dignified version about the role of memory in our lives and intimate relationships.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the problem with stories like these. The characters want to get married, and at least one is capable of love and the necessary discernment to choose freely. But the person with the brain impairment, according to a priest who works at a diocesan marriage tribunal, \u201cdoesn\u2019t have the discretion or the capability to assume the obligations of marriage.\u201d He said, \u201cIt can feel like love but consent is defective because of the physical anomaly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watching \u201cRemember Sunday\u201d is enjoyable as a romantic comedy because of Alexis Bledel\u2019s lovely performance (we remember her from \u201cThe Gilmore Girls\u201d and \u201cThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants\u201d) and Zachary Levi\u2019s (\u201cChuck\u201d) ability to be a man who must start each day anew and the toll this extreme limitation takes on his hope for lasting happiness. The supporting cast is very simpatico.\u00a0 Barry Marrow\u2019s teleplay stabilizes the plot by adding in Gus\u2019 former life as an astrophysicist who watched the heavens to search for meaning.<\/p>\n
But ultimately, for anyone who understands the meaning of marriage, \u201cRemember Sunday\u201d can never work, not really, until science comes up with a way to restore Gus\u2019s brain.\u00a0 I think \u201cRemember Sunday\u201d is one of the most watchable of recent Hallmark Hall of Fame movies but this is one romantic fantasy where love cannot change someone, and a real marriage is not at the end of Molly\u2019s rainbow.<\/p>\n
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