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The Forgotten (2004)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:9
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: The premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense thematic material, some violence and brief language
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $66,641,205
Synopsis: What if you were told that every moment you experienced and every memory you held dear never happened? In Revolution Studios' haunting psychological thriller The Forgotten, Telly Paretta... What if you were told that every moment you experienced and every memory you held dear never happened? In Revolution Studios' haunting psychological thriller The Forgotten, Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is tormented by the memory of her eight-year-old son Sam's death in a plane crash 14 months ago. While trying to work through her grief, and her subsequent estrangement from her husband Jim (Anthony Edwards), she is informed by her psychiatrist, Dr. Munce (Gary Sinise), that she is suffering from delusions, that her son never existed and she is fabricating his memories. Stunned, she tries to find evidence of Sam's existence photos, videos, scrapbooks. But it has all disappeared. Telly is convinced she is going mad until she meets Ash Correll (Dominic West), the father of one of the other plane crash victims. Together, they embark on a search to prove the existence of their children and reclaim their sanity. Revolution Studios Presents a Jinks/Cohen Company Production The Forgotten, a Columbia Pictures release. The film stars Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache and Anthony Edwards. The film is directed by Joseph Ruben from a screenplay written by Gerald DiPego. Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks and Joe Roth are the producers. Steve Nicolaides and Todd Garner are the executive producers. Anastas Michos is the director of photography. The production designer is Bill Groom. The editor is Richard Francis-Bruce, A.C.E. Cindy Evans is the costume designer. The music is by James Horner. -- © Columbia Pictures [More]
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache, Anthony Edwards
Director: Joseph Ruben
Director: Joseph Ruben
Screenwriter: Gerald DiPego
Producer: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Joe Roth
Composer: James Horner
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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Reviews for The Forgotten
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.
It's very manipulative, it's very maddening -- and yet I found it very entertaining.
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.
Never comes out from under the weight of its dreariness, despite fine acting, foot chases and conspiracy theories galore.
Has shocks and a solid performance, but no intelligence to go with them.
The only mystery here, once the lights come up, is why these good people signed on to appear in this sad mistake.
Devolves into a best-forgotten clone of an utterly illogical X-Files episode.
It has been 17 years since Joseph Ruben last directed a good thriller (The Stepfather), and it may be another 17 if he can't find better material than Gerald Di Pego's script for The Forgotten.
Such unabashed ludicrousness can be fun, in a brainless sort of way, especially when it's coupled with lots of sudden defibrillator jolts underscored by crashing cymbals.
As the psychological thriller moves steadily into science fiction, the switch in genres is never convincing.
We get all of Moore, which is a lot, but only half a story, which is not quite enough to make The Forgotten a winning thriller.
The movie begins with a premise: A mother remembers her lost son, and everyone she trusts tells her she only imagines she had a son. That's a great story idea. But it's all downhill from there.
Maybe you'll kick yourself upon leaving the theater, but while the lights are down you're engaged and increasingly, pleasurably thunderstruck.
A surprisingly action-packed wingding of a flick, a snappy Twilight Zone episode blown satisfyingly large beyond expectations.
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