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| The Forgotten | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  278 reviews
Sales Rank: 7288
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 95 minutes
ASIN: B000T4349G
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2004
Release Date: November 25, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Customer Reviews:
Give Me Your First Memory June 20, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I kept waiting for the part of the story to make it clear why the main characters all lived in such giant, oversized New York apartments. The only thing I could figure out was that both Julianne Moore and Dominic West were playing characters who could afford to let their children go on special plane flights for kids on QuestAir, but you don't have to be a millionaire to go on a plane, and these people are living in these fantastic apartments that are easily as big as plane hangars. They're all gloomy too, well, that figures. It's like GREY GARDENS without the occasional musical numbers.
How many times does Julianne Moore have to introduce herself with the catchy mnemomyic, "I'm Telly Paretta"? Someone, perhaps the hard-working psychiatrist played by Gary Sinise, should have asked her why her mom and dad named her after TV's KOJAK and saved himself months and months of analytical discovery. Sinise is the only actor who could have played this part, Dr. Muntz, who browbeats the police into letting him accompany them at all times for he must be there when they recapture Telly otherwise she'll suffer a psychotic break. Yeah, like the police would really pay attention to this worry wart. And yet the plot is constructed so that this has to happen. I also enjoyed the part where Telly, adopting the pleasant guise of a personal assistant, tricks an auditor into giving up a suspect's home address: "165 Colony Road, Long Island." Gee, that'll be easy to find! Didn't they want to name a real town?
Anyhow I loved the movie and couldn't bear to see it end. I bought it for my own DVD collection and probably will see it over and over, it will help me with my own feelings of anxiety and inadequacy about not having kids. You know how sometimes one wakes up feeling so spacey that, if Anthony Edwards told me I had had a miscarriage and didn't really have any children at all, I'd believe him, for he has such an innocent face and it's so great he got a part in a major studio movie again after being stigmatized by his "Mark Green" role in ER for for many years during which time he was graylisted by Hollywood and went completely, utterly, bald like Otto Preminger.
 Fuggettaboutit June 20, 2006
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really think the director is trying to channel Stanley Kubric. The pacing is so akward and drawn out that you just loose interest. Let's get to the point - you just don't care about the characters. Seriously. You just can't suspend disbelief if you can't believe in the characters. That's the movie's major flaw, and it's a mighty big one.
 The forgotten June 19, 2006
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
I watched this movie couple of times, but still didn't get the plot of the movie. It is a very strange movie. Didn't expect Julianne Moore to play in a stupid movie like that. I didn't like it, not worth watching it.
The title works...'Forgettable' would have worked better... June 1, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
And thats the problem with this B-Grade thriller. It's completly and utterly FORGETTABLE, and I say that mostly because it fails to deliver when it has the chance to. The plot is actually pretty unique in itself, the idea of waking up one day and having everything you've thought you've known be a lie, the children you've raised never existing and everyone you've ever known is convinced your crazy. Yeah, so the plot is decent and the acting is pretty good. Julianne Moore is a good actress and she plays the distressed mother quite well. So in this film she plays a woman whose son was killed in a plane wreck or so she thought. She's been seeing a shrink for some time trying to resolve her feelings of loss. But soon things start to change. The pictures in the house of her son are gone, his room has changed, his things are missing and all of a sudden her husband and friends and shrink are all saying that she never bore a child and that she's been living a lie for years believing something that never happened. Add in some aliens and you have a classic B-Grade sci-fi film. The only problem is that, while building up great suspence and delivering some eerie performances the final few frames just fall to pieces. It's almost like the writters sat down and said "we have a great concept and a great two thirds of a script, but I just can't fingure out how to end this $hit...what should we do?" and the producers said "anything, I need my movie" and so they just threw together an ending that is probably the worst ending I've ever seen. It makes no sense and all the suspence and drama that had built up throughout the film is null in void after watching the pathetic excuse for an ending...and don't even get me started on the alternate ending supplied on the DVD...it's even worse! I just was dissapointed, as were the critics since for the most part this film was panned. It has it's moments, and there are a few jumpy scenes, and if it weren't for the appauling ending this film would be a decent thriller (nothing brilliant) but at least stomachable and worth a watch every once in a while, but the ending kills it for me. And that's why I say it's forgettable, because it builds up speed as it races towards it's finale but it never quite makes it off the runway, it never delivers that final blow that could have sealed the deal and made this a great thriller...instead it fizzles and dies and remains a lame attempt at a cheap thrill.
Not an Unforgettable Movie May 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Forgotten is an okay movie in which Julianne Moore stars as a mother, Telly, grieving over the death of her son Sam in an airplane crash 14 months before. Anthony Edwards plays her husband, and Gary Sinise plays her psychologist. This isn't just about grief, however, but something more strange that is happening as traces of Sam are slowly being wiped out of existence. His pictures start to fade, the pages in his memory book become blank, and his babysitter denies that he ever existed. Telly is shocked when her husband and shrink try to convince her that Sam never existed, and she refuses to believe it.
She runs into Ash, the father of another child who was killed in the same plane crash. He also denies that he ever had a daughter, but Telly forces him to remember his daughter by making him say her name.
Then the movie sets off on a mad escapade as the police and the NSA (or FBI- I can't remember which) start chasing Telly and Ash. Alfre Woodard plays a detective who starts to think that there are just too many weird things going on and reaches out to try to help Telly.
The movie does not totally wrap up all the loose ends, and without giving any spoilers, I'll just say that I never was quite sure why the children were taken. But the movie certainly is a tribute to the strong bond between a mother and her child--even if the scenes involving Sam are awfully idyllic, particularly at the end.
It as an okay movie-- a good one to rent, but certainly not one to buy. Three stars.
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