SOURCE: Dyson, Jonathan. “Remember Me?: Various Cinemas.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4922 (1 August 1997): 18.

In the following review, Dyson observes that many of the comic moments in Remember Me? are predictable but effective, further commenting that the film's resolution is unsatisfying and improbable.

Remember Me? is a traditional British farce. The screenplay is by Michael Frayn, the author of Noises Off, the hugely successful play about a farce. Indeed, the film looks as if it has been adapted from a stage play, without much opening-out: almost all the action takes place in a run-down suburban semi in West Byfleet over the period of an hour or so (in the evening and the next morning), and the stage farce staples of bed-hopping and door-slamming are very much in evidence.

In the dining-room, Lorna (Imelda Staunton) is distractedly doing piece-work (filling out insurance-claim details) on a geriatric computer. An anxious husband, Ian...