The Forgotten
Joseph Ruben, director of Sleeping of the Enemy and Money Train, brings us a psychological conspiracy theory based thriller that so easily could be an X-files or Outer Limits episode.
Julianne Moore plays Telly Paretta, a mother who is coming to terms with the death of ... Read review
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memory you hold clear... never happened? Telly Paretta is tormented by the memory of her eight-year-old son Sam's death in a plane crash. While trying to work through her grief, and her subsequent estrangement from her husband Jim, she is informed by her psychiatrist, Dr. Munce, that she is suffering from delusions, that her son never existed and she is fabricating memories of him. 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, 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.
The ForgottenA grieving mother (Julianne Moore) struggles to cope with the loss of her ... more
8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist tells her she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. When she meets a fellow patient who had a similar experience, she embarks on a mission to prove her son's existence and her sanity.GothikaA criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.
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Advantages: Julianne Moore...She's beautiful Disadvantages: Too much like x-files in its latter days
The Forgotten
Joseph Ruben, director of Sleeping of the Enemy and Money Train, brings us a psychological conspiracy theory based thriller that so easily could be an X-files or Outer Limits episode.
Julianne Moore plays Telly Paretta, a mother who is coming to terms with the death of her son, Sam, who was killed in a plane accident… or was he?
Telly not only has to deal with the possibility that her marriage to ... ...has to contend with the notion that her counsellor Dr. Jack Munce (Gary Sinise), who she is seeing to help her deal with Sam's death, thinks she is delusional. Both her doctor and her husband try to tell her that she never had a son but Telly refuses to accept this. She starts to investigate and look for evidence to prove to everyone and herself that she's not mad. She finds an ally in Ash Correll, (Dominic West) who himself had a daughter who was ... more
The Forgotten
Joseph Ruben, director of Sleeping of the Enemy and Money Train, brings us a psychological conspiracy theory based thriller that so easily could be an X-files or Outer Limits episode.
Julianne Moore plays Telly Paretta, a mother who is coming to terms with the death of her son, Sam, who was killed in a plane accident… or was he? Telly not only has to deal with the possibility that her marriage to Jim (Anthony Edwards) could be breaking down but she also has to contend with the notion that her counsellor Dr. Jack Munce (Gary Sinise), who she is seeing to help her deal with Sam's death, thinks she is delusional. Both her doctor and her husband try to tell her that she never had a son but Telly refuses to accept this. She starts to investigate and look for evidence to prove to everyone and herself that she's not mad. She finds an ally in Ash Correll, (Dominic West) who himself had a daughter who was on the same plane as Sam, who helps her to unlock the mystery of what really happened to their children. Are they alive or are they dead? Could it be possible that their children are just a figment of their imagination?
The beautiful Julianne Moore does her best to keep the interest in this film. Her performance is admirable considering the silliness of the script. That, they say is the sign of a good actor. She does however have decent support from the likes of Dominic West and Gary Sinise and it is the product of all these performances that make this film watchable. The direction, writing and the so-called soundtrack are very average as is the character development in the film. The two main characters are the only ones that show any sign of growth as the films goes on. Another problem is the development of the plot. For years on end films and programs such as The X-files, The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone all dealt with improbable and sometimes very absurd stories but the execution was what mattered. These three very famous programs knew how to tell an improbable story however the combination Mr.Gerald Di Pego, (Phenomenon) who is credited with writing this film and director Mr. Ruben are not quite as adept as storytelling in this movie as the Chris Carter's of this world.
The Forgotten could be easily passed of as a feature length episode of The X-files… but with two main drawbacks. The first being the absence of Mulder and Scully and the second being that the film came across as The X-files in its latter days when it dealt with a lot of ridiculous storylines centring around super soldiers and government conspiracies. If The Forgotten ran like an X-File from Series 1, 2 or 3 then this picture would have been a must. Unfortunately for everyone this is not the case. Even though this is an inane attempt at a serious film, if you have 90 minutes to spare put your brain into neutral, try to ignore the execution of the storyline, then rest assured this will, somehow, turn out to be an entertaining movie. In a few years time expect this movie to be repeated over and over again on the Sci- Fi channel.
Advantages: Mood, story idea and acting Disadvantages: Reveals too much too soon
...a surprise.
Not The Forgotten, not once but twice I literally jumped in my seat and I loved that a director can do that to me. If you see the film you’ll know exactly where this happened and I guarantee you’ll jump as well!
Julianne Moore again shows what a great actress she is; in all round ability only Nicole Kidman is better than her. She is able to play any kind of part, from comedy to high drama, without looking out of place. Without it seeming ... ...There is a scene early on where she looks through photo albums of Sam in panic, every page she turns is empty, and the sounds of the pages flicking and her sobs portray more than any words possibly could.
Apart from Julianne Moore the performances are pretty standard. Not bad by any degree but you feel anyone could have been replaced and it wouldn’t have made a difference. A few years down the line people will have forgotten(!) that Gary Sinise ...
Ailran 11.12.2004
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Advantages: It's not terrible Disadvantages: It's distinctly average
Telly has been mourning the loss of her nine year-old son in an air crash for fourteen months. But then she is told by her husband and psychiatrist that the boy never existed. How can everyone around her have forgotten the person she loved most? Why won’t anyone believe her? Are the last nine years of her life really a delusion or are there more sinister forces at work?
I get the impression that director Joseph Ruben is the go-to guy when your project ... ...need a solid dependable director for your latest star vehicle. With credits like “Money Train” and “Sleeping with the Enemy” it certainly seems the case. His directorial style is so un-flashy as to be pedestrian. His juddery camerawork and excessive cutting during the many chase sequences is supposed to convey a sense of urgency, but merely serve to distract from the characters’ panic and are frankly annoying. Ruben uses a great many aerial shots ...
afy9mab 17.12.2004
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Advantages: Good plot/entertainment.. Disadvantages: Not the best acting in the world, but to me OK..
The Forgotten is a DVD film that has been around for some time now, but it is one I hadn't seen until recently. I bought it in Virgin's superstore as part of their 3 DVDs-for-a-£20 offer. I took it home to watch and then decided to write this, my first film review. Something I'd never thought I would attempt, because I suppose I am a bit of an escapist and love films that take me away from mundane reality, regardless of how well they are acted. The ... ...York City as if one flying over it in an aircraft or is it a UFO? Then we meet the protagonist Telly Paretta, played by Julianne Moore, talking with her therapist, trying to come to terms with the loss of her small son Sam who died in an air crash. As the plot unfolds reasonably quickly, we see that it is not Telly who has "forgotten" anything, but others around her. First her husband, denies that he son ever existed as Telly questions why a photograph ...
derek-j-a 14.06.2005
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Advantages: Good film for the first 30/45minutes... Disadvantages: Storyline ran away with itselft.....
The Forgotten is the story of Telly, a dillusional mother who believes her son was killed in a plane crash 14 months ago. Frequently visiting a psychiatrist, we learn more about Telly's condition and of how she has manufactured memories of her "dead son". The psychatirst explains that Telly has seen what she has wanted to believe, in fact she had no son, let alone any children at all. For example, there was a photo of herself, her husband and her ... ...then as the psychatirst explains how Telly is becomming more and more dillusional we then see the photo and it is only of herself and her husband. Telly immediately places all blame to her husband, ensisting that he removed the photo and replaced it with a similar one of them withot her son in it. Telly claims there is two photos, there was one of the three of them which they asked a lady to take for them and another of just her and her husband, ...
PlaceboFan 11.12.2004
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Advantages: Enjoyable, Involving, Acting is believable. Disadvantages: The wrong ending, obviously controlled by either sponsers/yankee censors
Price:- Rented Blockbuster DVD – Approx £4
Story line
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Mother (Julianne Moore) is grieving for her son following a plane crash, which clamed the lives of a number of children on their way to some camp. As time passes all records of her son begin to disappear photos, videos, documents etc, etc.
She believes her husband (Anthony Edwards) is responsible and he denies this, so she goes to see a therapist/physiologist (Gary Sinise). Her ... ...and only she can remember no records are left anywhere, not even a record of the crash could be found.
She goes in search of others who have lost loved ones and finds an alcoholic ex-hockey star (Dominic West) whose daughter was a friend of her sons. She puts the seed of doubt in his head and then he sobers up and remembers also.
Without giving too much away the pair go on a hunt for the truth while being hunted themselves by her therapist, the ...
ian_jamsie 01.04.2005
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Advantages: some good 'jump' moments Disadvantages: I will forget it (or is that an advantage)
minutes (1 hour 31 minutes)
Rated 12
Film screened in 2004
DVD Released 2005
1.85:1 Anamorphic widescreen
Filmed in New York, Long Island & Brooklyn
You can pick it up for around £7 or get a nice bottle of wine instead?
Extras
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Subtitles
Sound options (dubbing)
Commentary by the writer & the director (cant comment as I couldn't face watching it twice)
Trailers - Forgotten, Hellboy, Frankenfish, Resident evil2 - Wish I had rented Frankenfish now
3 Deleted scenes - One of them is quite pointless, one is a kiss scene & the other is an alternate ending which I thought was better than the actual ending
Remembering the forgotten - Interviews with the cast, directors, writer, producers & some special effects. Quite interesting and only 20 minutes long so you don't get too bogged down with information
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