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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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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.

Full Review Source: Peterborough This Week | comment Comment
10/06/04
Mike Sage
Mike Sage
Peterborough This Week
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
10/06/04
Boston Phoenix

Stylish, moody, gripping and utterly nonsensical--what else do you expect from the director of Sleeping With the Enemy and the writer of Instinct?

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
10/06/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

With some improvements in tone and philosophy, would have made a good hour-long episode of Star Trek

Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
10/06/04
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

There isn’t much here any semi-regular viewer of The X-Files hasn't already seen a dozen times before.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
10/06/04
Pete Vonder Haar
Pete Vonder Haar
Film Threat

There's no excuse for a big budget Hollywood production having as many holes and loose ends as this one.

Full Review Source: MovieWeb | comment Comment
10/06/04
Rick Kisonak
Rick Kisonak
MovieWeb
N/R

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Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
10/06/04
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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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.

Full Review Source: Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) | comment Comment
10/06/04
Thomas Peyser
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

What begins as an unsettling psychological thriller eventually morphs into a sci-fi curio that becomes less intriguing as it plays out.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
10/05/04
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

The first major rip-off of The Sixth Sense.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
10/04/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
10/01/04
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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Despite a terrific cast, thriller walks a thin line between camp and conceit. **

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
09/30/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

A freaking delight. Ruben keeps the threat both palpable and eerily undefined, and his payoffs are both ridiculously scary and hilariously unexpected.

Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | comment Comment
09/30/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
09/30/04
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

...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.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
09/29/04
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

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).

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
09/29/04
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | comment Comment
09/29/04
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
www.susangranger.com

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.

Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
09/28/04
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

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?

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
09/28/04
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

It will be. And soon.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
09/27/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
 
 
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