The Majestic

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and is mistaken for a long-lost son., Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete’s on top of the world with his first motion picture “Sand Pirates of the Sahara” just released to theaters and his romance with a beautiful starlet (Amanda Detmer) heating up. However, his triumph turns to dismay when he’s called before the commie-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee and advised by a studio lawyer and his agent to play ball with the witch hunters. Depressed by the film industry’s weak-kneed reaction to the hearings, Pete gets drunk and drives his car north along the California coast, where he crashes from a bridge and wakes up on shore the next morning suffering from amnesia. Wandering into the nearby small town of Lawson, Pete is mistaken for Luke Trimble, a lost hero of World War II who, like most of the area’s young men, never returned from the war a decade earlier. “Luke” has soon reunited with both his father (Martin Landau) and his one-time girlfriend (Laurie Holden), and finds that his reappearance has given the citizens of Lawson an emotional boost that’s sorely needed. When he refurbishes and reopens his family’s decrepit movie theater, the Majestic, Luke revitalizes Lawson just as his memory of his true identity begins to reassert itself. Sloane’s original script for The Majestic (2001) was entitled The Bijou., This touching drama takes a sentimental journey back to the 1950s. An engagingly low-key Jim Carrey stars as a man who loses his memory after a car crash. When he turns up in a California coastal town, the locals welcome him as a returning war hero. Laurie Holden, James Whitmore, Martin Landau. Directed by Frank Darabont., Screenwriter Peter Appleton is sacked by his studio for alleged links with Communist groups. When his car skids off a bridge, he wakes up in smalltown Lawson, where he’s mistaken for war hero Luke Trimble. But the Red Scare-mongers haven’t given up the chase…, The story of a successful screenwriter in 1950s Hollywood who suffers from amnesia following a car crash and wanders into a nearby town, where he is mistaken for a lost local hero of World War II. Just as he is beginning a new life in the town, his memory begins to return., A Hollywood screenwriter Peter Appleton who, in 1951, recieves a summons to testify before the feared House Un-American Activities Committee. But Appleton accidently crashes his car, develops amnesia and ends up in a small town. His remarkable resemblance to a missing World War II hero, Luke Trimble, causes the residence, including Luke’s girlfriend, to rejoice at his “homecomming”. The soldier’s father happily welcomes his son.