Be warned: Watch at your own discretion, and have the box of tissues close by. To rate something like this objectively may be hard. This movie comes ready to hit you with every emotional nerve you've got. I may have been a nervous, blubbering wreck by the end, but I still have to admit that the movie is brilliantly filmed, plotted, and acted. The story may seem generic, but the pacing of the plotline is in itself a masterpiece. The development of our characters from first meeting, to their falling in love, and in the end to their ultimate fate is practically seemless. I usually have a hard time accepting or getting accustomed the the turn of events in a short (2hr) movie, but the plot and characters (even side-plots and bit-characters) were all well done and fleshed out. I particularly love the script's attention to the themes of love and memory. The very first scene, our male lead sets the pace when he tells a stranger: "When a memory is gone, so is the soul, they say." Who are "they" and is that really what he believes? Another character later will say: "To forget easily is a gift." In the midst of this movie's tragic undertones, A Moment to Remember asks and deals with some hard questions, and we don't need to live the story's exact plotline ourselves to appreciate them.