The Forgotten Movie Review

Starring: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinese

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"The Forgotten Directed by Joseph Ruben, 2004 Staring Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinese Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) lost her eight year old son, when the plane he was traveling to summer camp in crashed. Telly's attempts to come to terms with the loss are made difficult as her husband (Dominic West) and her therapist (Gary Sinese) keep trying to convince her that the son never existed and that her memories of him have been constructed by her mind to cope with a miscarriage. As Telly persists in trying to prove her son was real she discovers that his image is disappearing from photos and even the microfilm copies of the newspaper no longer contain articles about the plane crash. Her son does appear to be in her imagination only but the bond between mother and child is so strong that she knows he was real and not imaginary. Becoming more desperate, she makes contact with the father of one of her son's playmates who also died in the plane crash and forces him to penetrate the fog of alcohol in his brain and locate a memory of his daughter. With that, the two of them set out to find the truth about what happened to their children, but immediately find themselves being pursued by agents of the Federal National Security Agency (NSA). It soon becomes apparent that the Feds are determined to protect the secrecy of either some government project gone awry or the activities of aliens from space. However, a mother's concern for her child proves stronger than the obstacles erected by the forces of the government and extraterrestrials. The DVD has two endings both with the same final result but with different approaches to that result."
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Technology/$$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - state secrets
Family Relations Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - homemaker/wife
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male Alien
Age: - 40's-50's
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - mind control - super strength
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%

Setting
Big cities? Yes
Kind of city - Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment

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