Ray Meets Helen is a 2017 romantic drama film directed by Alan Rudolph.

The woman is sat under a tree and has shot herself leaving a note inviting the person who finds her to take possession of her flat and effectively her old life.

When Ray is out on his latest job - the turnover of a bank van carrying cash - he sees a boy putting wads of money into a rucksack.

Ray and Helen return to a fancy French restaurant where they ate when 'poor' and were moved on in favour of richer customers.

Ray gets a taxi back to the boy's neighbourhood and removes a bike and bag from the trunk.

Ray tells the boy to pack his favourite things in his backpack and go next door to Faye and Rita's.

Four masked guys who may or may not be neighbourhood watch chase Ray, who scatters money as he runs to slow them down.

The film originally was to star Lesley Ann Warren as Helen,[1] but she was replaced by the older Sondra Locke, who came out of retirement to do the role.

It had a limited theatrical release on May 4, 2018 in only three theaters in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and Bainbridge Island, Washington.

[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[4] In a mixed review, John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "the movie succumbs to one false note after the other — contrivances both fortunate and un- that increasingly test our willingness to accept what has come before as simply the strange vibes of a filmmaker accustomed to another age.

"[5] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that the film "has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies.

Filled with imaginative visuals populated by the ghosts of the gone and hopes for the future, the movie is wonderfully, magically humane.