Background: I remember wanting to see The Forgotten when it released, but I missed it for some reason. About a year later, my roommate and I had free Starz (I think … it could have been HBO or Showtime) for three months. One night, my sister and I noticed that The Forgotten was going to be on, and we watched it. (Roomie wasn’t home—it’s a good thing, ‘cause she would have hated it!) I really liked it, and I bought it shortly thereafter.
Plot: Fourteen months after her son’s death in a plane crash, Telly (Moore) still struggles to let go. Soon, however, it seems she is the only one who even remembers her son—her husband (Edwards), therapist (Sinise), and best friend insist she never had a child. When she runs into Ash (West), the father of a girl who died in the same crash as her son, she works with him to uncover the truth behind the plane crash.
Reactions: If you can, watch the extended version of this film, rather than the theatrical version! My dvd has both versions, so I watched the extended version this time. While the film is by and large the same, the extended version has an alternate ending that fits the rest of the film much better than the theatrical ending. (Most of the changes come in the last 15 minutes of the film. The final scene only has one small change, but it completely changes the feeling you have as you watch the end.)
While at first The Forgotten seems like a psychological thriller, it quickly and decisively moves into compelling science fiction. As a huge sci-fi lover, I think it’s great…and even people who don’t normally enjoy sci-fi might enjoy the psychological nature of the film.
Verdict: Keep
