Allen Garfield, Amanda Detmer, Bob Balaban
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
DVD Release Date: June 18, 2002
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December 16, 2008More serious role for Jim Carrey. He is a Hollywood scriptwriter who is involved in a car accident where he loses his memory. He is marooned in a small town where he is mistaken for a long lost war hero. Interesting plot.
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July 6, 2008Carrey proves he can do a lot more than the funny, light roles he's usually being given.
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March 14, 2008The problem with modern tributes to classic Hollywood is that the gee-whiz attitude and clean sentimentality must inevitably be forced where it used to be natural, invented where it used to exist. That innocent G-ratedness, a la Pleasantville, is a thing of the past, so movies li...( read more)
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August 31, 2009"That's the real world. I want my goddamn life back, Adele. Is that so hard to understand?"
I was quite disappointed with this film because I loved Frank Darabont's other masterpieces, and this falls short of both. The story of a man who loses his memory, and then gets it...( read more) -
August 11, 2009This is a sweet, patriotic, romantic fable in which a blacklisted screenwriter named Peter Appleton suffers from amnesia after an accident, and is mistaken for and embraced as the local hero who was missing in action from the war. He suddenly has a whole town who loves him, a fat...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
December 21, 2001
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
December 21, 2001
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
This 2½-hour celebration of small-town America, the magic of the movies and free speech is so broadly manipulative and simplistic, it risks giving all three of them a bad name. full review
December 21, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It tells a full story with three acts, it introduces characters we get to know and care about, and it has something it passionately wants to say. full review
December 20, 2001
Claudia Puig, USA Today
A pale imitation [of Capra's films] that challenges credulity and tries too hard to win our hearts with schmaltz. full review
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