The Forgotten (film)

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The Forgotten
Promotional poster for The Forgotten
Directed by	Joseph Ruben
Produced by	Steve Nicolaides, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Joe Roth
Written by	Gerald Di Pego
Starring	Julianne Moore Anthony Edwards Lee Tergesen Alfre Woodard Gary Sinise Linus Roache Dominic West
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	Anastas N. Michos
Editing by	Richard Francis-Bruce
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures (USA, theatrical), Sony Pictures Entertainment
Release date(s)	September 24, 2004
Running time	91 min
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$42,000,000 (estimated)
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The Forgotten is a 2004 American psychological thriller, directed by Joseph Ruben. The majority of the movie was filmed in New York City.

The movie revolves around a woman who thinks she lost her son in a plane crash 14 months ago, only to wake up one morning and be told that she never had a son. All of her memories are intact but with no physical evidence that contradicts the claims of her husband and psychiatrist, she sets out in search for solid evidence of her son's existence.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Critical reception
4 Box office performance
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Plot

Telly Paretta believes that her son Sam died fourteen months previously but her husband Jim tells her that she is delusional. Doctor Munce tells her that she is delusional and imagining a life that never happened after a miscarriage; he recommends that she be sent to a hospital. At this she runs away and meets with a man (Ash) whom she thinks is the father of one of her son's friends. At first he dismisses her and calls the police, but as she is taken away by the feds he also remembers his daughter and rescues Telly; together they escape and go into hiding, pursued by agents.

Telly and Ash capture and torture an agent, who reveals that the agents are merely helping "them" and it is for the protection of humankind. The roof of the house then blows off, presumably taken by "them", and the two flee.

Eventually Telly hunts down one of "them" in a warehouse and he tells her that she has been a part of an experiment into whether the bonds between mother and child can be broken. Telly refuses to deny her son's existence.. She is choked and ordered to give up her last memory of her son, the first time she saw him as a newborn. But she recalls her pregnancy and the being who has been experimenting on her is 'blown away'. She then finds herself living her normal life with her son again, though she remembers everything that has happened.

It is never exactly stated who "they" are, but it can be presumed that they are extraterrestrials because they are immune to bullets and possess advanced technologies.

[edit] Cast

Julianne Moore – Telly Paretta
Christopher Kovaleski – Sam
Jessica Hecht – Eliot
Gary Sinise – Dr. Jack Munce
Alfre Woodard – Det. Anne Pope
Anthony Edwards – Jim Paretta
Dominic West – Ash Correll
Linus Roache – "A Friendly Man" (Mr. Shineer)
Lee Tergesen – Al Petalis

[edit] Critical reception

Critics gave the film generally negative to mixed reviews. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 31% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 166 reviews.^[1] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 43 out of 100, based on 34 reviews.^[2]

[edit] Box office performance

The film opened September 24, 2004 in the United States and Canada and grossed $21 million in 3,104 theaters its opening weekend, ranking #1 at the box office.^[3]

The film cost $42 million to produce and it eventually grossed $67.1 million in the U.S. and Canada and $50.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $117.5 million.^[4]