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Julianne Moore,
Dominic West,
Gary Sinise,
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Joseph Ruben
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: Columbia TriStar
: Science Fiction , Aliens
: 91 min.
: English, French, Thai
: English, French, Korean, Thai
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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 (Dominic West), she becomes convinced that her doctor is wrong, and sets out to prove the existence of her child -- and that she isn't insane. The Forgotten also features Alfre Woodard and Anthony Edwards. An alternate ending exists to this film, which has been released on DVD and purportedly does a great deal to compensate for the story's weaknesses. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| Parenting, Memory & Some Strange Goings-On
by talltale
January 21, 2005 - 8:26 AM PST
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6 out of 8 members found this review helpful
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| Parental love and the persistence of memory get a good workout in THE FORGOTTEN, one of the better paranoid/thriller/sci-fi outings of the past year or two. Julianne Moore gives another fine performance, binding the disparate parts of the film and providing the emotional weight that it needs to succeed. Director Joseph Ruben usually makes well-crafted movies, and he does it again here. Don't expect too much from the extended, alternate-ending version that appears on the DVD--and was recently heralded in the NY Times, no less. While the alternate is slightly better in that it doesn't overly demonize the adversary, it also offers a silly, attenuated special-effects scene of Moore being "electrified" that makes you cry, "Enough, already--we get it!" Dominic West ("Mona Lisa Smile") does a good job as the scruffy semi-love interest, and Linus Roache ("Wing of the Dove") offers an interesting, single-expression performance as the "other." |
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