The art direction is shoddy and sparing, the antagonists more laughable than menacing, the ending more PG than Full House. Amnesia never sounded more appealing.
The Forgotten (2004)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:51
Rotten:115
Average Rating:5/10
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
Stylish, moody, gripping and utterly nonsensical--what else do you expect from the director of Sleeping With the Enemy and the writer of Instinct?
With some improvements in tone and philosophy, would have made a good hour-long episode of Star Trek
There isn’t much here any semi-regular viewer of The X-Files hasn't already seen a dozen times before.
There's no excuse for a big budget Hollywood production having as many holes and loose ends as this one.
Screenwriter Gerald Di Pegoto...[is] like a child caught in a fib, trying to wriggle out of his predicament by cooking up ever more extravagant fantasies.
What begins as an unsettling psychological thriller eventually morphs into a sci-fi curio that becomes less intriguing as it plays out.
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.
Despite a terrific cast, thriller walks a thin line between camp and conceit. **
A freaking delight. Ruben keeps the threat both palpable and eerily undefined, and his payoffs are both ridiculously scary and hilariously unexpected.
Moore is actually required to deliver the infamous movie line, “Give me back my son!,” while moments are pillaged from everything from Labyrinth to Dark City.
...in this particular case I'm happy to value old-fashioned meat-and-potatoes genre craftsmanship over such pesky, trifling matters as logic or common sense.
Late in the proceedings, we get the depressing news: 'This isn't over' (those words haven't been so disheartening since Vin Diesel said them in A Man Apart).
Any film capable of simultaneously causing me to douse my lap with Mountain Dew in surprise and inspiring the biggest unintentional laugh I’ve had all year deserves credit.
None of it is particularly compelling, except in that vague way that your Bad Movie Alarm engages...: In which particularly ridiculous direction will the film take us?
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