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Allen Garfield, Amanda Detmer, Bob Balaban, Brent Briscoe, Bruce Campbell
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.
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More 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.
Carrey proves he can do a lot more than the funny, light roles he's usually being given.
The 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)
Frank Capra inspired and awe struck generations with his films, while Frank Darabont is in noway Capra his film The Majestic does a good job at honoring Capra and his films with creating a plausible love drama about a man(Carrey) just trying to find where he belongs in ...( read more)
"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)
This 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)
