The Forgotten (2004)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 170
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 118
The premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 26
The premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.
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A grieving woman must make a journey into her past in this psychological thriller. Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is a mother who is struggling to put her life back together after the unexpected death of her eight-year-old son. Telly begins seeing a therapist (Gary Sinise) who offers a startling diagnosis -- that her son never really existed, and all her memories of the child are products of her imagination. When Telly meets a man with a strangely similar story to tell about his lost child
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Julianne Moore
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Dominic West
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Gary Sinise
Dr. Jack Munce -
Alfre Woodard
Anne Pope -
Linus Roache
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Robert Wisdom
Carl Dayton -
Jessica Hecht
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Anthony Edwards
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All Critics (178) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (118) | DVD (27)
Moore is too precious a commodity to fritter away her time and talent on a no-thrills thriller as bland and superficial as The Forgotten.
Top CriticIt's very manipulative, it's very maddening -- and yet I found it very entertaining.
Slightly predictable and dumb when all is said and done.
An uneasy mix between Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the The X-Files, and one not nearly as smart as either.
Perhaps wisely leaves more questions than it answers and for the most part manages to maintain its suspense.
It's the central casting of the remarkable Julianne Moore that gives the movie both a core and a heart, particularly when Di Pego's script starts making its way further and further out along the limb of credibility.
Creepy thriller not for faint of heart.
Who wants to see -- or remember -- a wildly implausible thriller that's also grim and humorless?
The climax is a disappointment, lacking the quick visual thrills earlier in the movie and failing to answer many key questions raised throughout.
Few films have title more deserving.
Not since Star Trek V: The Final Frontier has there been such a stupid omnipotent force.
The Forgotten, though not an outright bad movie, is yet another frustrating example of a Hollywood film that simply lacks the courage of its convictions.
Starts out as a psychological drama and gets a whole lot weirder as it goes along.
What the father-son bond was to Frequency… mother love is to The Forgotten, a "Twilight Zone" / "X-Files"-esque thriller with a pro-life twist.
*Rarely has so much cinematic stuff -- star power, special effects, set design -- gone on in the service of something so evanescent and feathery.
Unusual mix of drama and science fiction, masquerading as a horror film.
... [Julianne Moore] is the heart and soul that lifts The Forgotten from direct-to-video fare and into something genuinely interesting.
Goes from figuratively to literally sucking as characters mysteriously go flying into the sky.
La frustración proviene de ver un pésimo abordaje de lo que originalmente fue una buena idea que contaba además con una estupenda actriz.
Lurking beneath is an equally creepy sense of latent antagonism now, between Mom and the State when it comes to possession rights over human offspring.
The more you understand what's really going on, the less you like it.
O que tinha tudo para se transformar em um thriller psicológico de primeira acabou assumindo a forma de um filme B pouco inspirado.
Cool idea. Realized pretty darned well, with some faults. In the "M. Night Shyamalan" genre.
The film never grabs the audience...
[W]hy dramatize your premise when you can blow the windows out of an abandoned warehouse instead?
The set-up is promising but it crashes and burns when the film turns into a bad episode of The X-Files
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