The Forgotten | 
| Director: Joseph Ruben
Actors: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Christopher Kovaleski, Matthew Pleszewicz, Anthony Edwards
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  277 reviews
Sales Rank: 9558
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: D10078D
ISBN: 1404905863
UPC: 043396100787
EAN: 9781404905863
ASIN: B0006IIKQW
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 2004
Release Date: January 18, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
TELLY IS A GRIEVING MOTHER TRYING TO COPE WITH THE LOSS OF HER 8 YEAR OLD SON. SHE IS STUNNED WHEN HER PSYCHIATRIST REVEALS THAT SHE HAS CREATED 8 YEARS OF MEMORIES ABOUT A SON SHE NEVER HAD. BUT WHEN SHE MEETS A MAN WHO HAS HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE, TELLY EMBARKS ON A SEARCH TO PROVE HER SON'S EXISTENCE.
Amazon.com
With a plot that might've been lifted from The X-Files, nothing is quite what it seems in The Forgotten, a psychological conspiracy thriller with Julianne Moore doing fine work as a grieving mother whose nine-year-old son was killed in a plane crash. At least, that's what she's been led to believe, but when even her husband (Anthony Edwards) tries to convince her that she's delusional and never had a child, things start to get very spooky indeed. Dominic West (from HBO's superb series The Wire) plays a similarly traumatized father, and when they witness some very strange events--and a mysterious man (Linus Roache) who might be indestructible--this glorified B-movie potboiler directed by Joseph Ruben (best known for Dreamscape and The Stepfather) turns into a preposterous but entertaining trip into The Twilight Zone territory. Featuring Alfre Woodard as an intuitive New York detective and Gary Sinise as a seemingly sympathetic psychiatrist, The Forgotten offers adequate shocks and an intriguing, otherworldly study of tenacious parental instinct. It deserved its mixed reviews, but it's a fun spook-fest for rainy-day viewing. --Jeff Shannon
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 Nice try June 27, 2009
Coronet Blue (California)
I missed this when it was new because the trailer made it look like a horror movie when in fact its an X-Files type story. While The Forgotten does not have the humor or chemistry of the best X-Files episodes, its ok. It escapes being predictable by being so implausible. When the whole thing is revealed, there is no explanation as to why anyone (or thing) would bother tampering with people's lives in this way. But even if you just want to watch Julianne Moore through a blue filter as she runs all over NY and NJ, with a soundtrack that sounds like Liz Story, its enjoyable.
Cinematic Alzheimer's... June 20, 2009
Bindy Sue Fronkuenschtein (under the rubble)
THE FORGOTTEN is a creepy, paranoia inducing tale of memory loss, deception, government conspiracy, abduction, and possible insanity. Telly (Julianne Moore from Hannibal and Safe) is a mum who is 14 months into grieving for her dead son. Or is she? Pictures and videos of the boy begin disappearing, while those around her seem to have no memory of her son's having ever existed! This leads Telly on a quest for the truth, no matter how terrible or bizarre it may be. Ms. Moore is always a pleasure to watch, as her talents lift even the most preposterous material into the realm of believability. She is the heart and soul of THE FORGOTTEN. Without her earnest performance, this could have been yet another disaster like THE HAPPENING (well, maybe not THAT godawful)...
 entertaining sci-fi concept April 8, 2009
Michael A. Scheurich (California)
Other than a few flaws in logical continuity it has an excellant sci-fi/conspiracy concept. At times it was even comical. For UFO and X-File buffs I suspect it made their day.
 Maybe I am the one who is crazy... January 4, 2009
Leah Maloney (westboro, Massachusetts)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Can someone please let me know if I am crazy? Granted, the whole movie made me feel edgy and paranoid but I swear in the TV version I saw last night, the heroine's son, Sam, was reported to be "killed in a bus crash in Brooklyn". Several characters said those words, most notably Alfre Woodard's police investigator character. Yet in every review I can find, the writer of the review states that Sam died in a plane crash. Am I going nuts or was this alternate version of the movie different in other ways besides the ending? Anyone?
Can Someone Help Me Forget This Movie? August 11, 2008
Choice Critic (Highland, IN)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
No one remembers that a woman named Telly(Julianne Moore)had a child, Sam, who was killed in a plane crash except her; not even her husband (Anthony Edwards). She can't forget and not even her psychiatrist (Gary Sinise)can get her to forget.
All of these problems are due to the U.S.government, of course. It is conducting one of its many conspiratorial "experiments" on its poor taxpayers again. The experiment is run by someone named Al Patelis (Lee Tegersen). He appears to be a cheap rip-off of the Terminator. Why he is robotic is never quite clear.
Telly's lack of forgetfulness upsets the U.S. government's NSA no end and they send seemingly hundreds of agents, including Al, to catch her and make her forget. They spend the next ninety minutes ineptly trying to catch Telly and Ash(Dominic West), a father whose memory she refreshes about his daughter who was killed in the same plane crash as Sam.
An ex-hockey player, the reason for Ash's forgetfulness of his daughter is never made clear. Is it due to the government experiment, or brought on by catching too many hockey pucks to the head before he retired?
You may enjoy this movie if you are a runner since the characters also run endlessly throughout. You may find it amazing that a suburban housewife can out-sprint any number of macho government agents but it must be true because I saw it in this movie. All the running is probably due to the fact that it is a convenient way to avoid the necessity of writing dialogue
The movie does have a happy ending unless you watch the extended alternate version. But why watch the extended version when the characters spend most of the shorter theatrical release exploding backward into tiny bits; thanks to the little computer geek ensconced in the studio who does these things via keystrokes?
If nothing else, don't forget this. This movie isn't selling for a penny for nothing.
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