2004 · thriller · mystery · sci-fi
The Forgotten
Directed by Joseph Ruben1h 31m2004
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created nine years of memories about a son she never had. But when she remembers a man who had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
Our read: The Forgotten (2004) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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