Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.


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Film Cast:
Peter Appleton: Jim Carrey
Elvin Glyde: Bob Balaban
Mayor Ernie Cole: Jeffrey DeMunn
Congressman Doyle: Hal Holbrook
Adele Stanton: Laurie Holden
Harry Trimble: Martin Landau
Sheriff Cecil Coleman: Brent Briscoe
Kevin Bannerman: Ron Rifkin
Emmett Smith: Gerry Black
Doc Stanton: David Ogden Stiers
Stan Keller: James Whitmore
Irene Terwilliger: Susan Willis
Mabel: Catherine Dent
Carl Leffert: Brian Howe
Bob Leffert: Karl Bury
Avery Wyatt: Chelcie Ross
Sandra Sinclair: Amanda Detmer
Leo Kubelsky: Allen Garfield
Federal Agent Ellerby: Daniel von Bargen
Jerry the Bartender: Mario Roccuzzo
Newsreel Announcer (voice): Earl Boen
Roland the Intrepid Explorer: Bruce Campbell
The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid: Cliff Curtis
Kindly Old Professor Meredith: Michael Sloane
Studio Executive (voice): Garry Marshall
Studio Executive (voice): Paul Mazursky
Studio Executive (voice): Sydney Pollack
Studio Executive (voice): Carl Reiner
Studio Executive (voice): Rob Reiner
Luke Trimble (voice): Matt Damon
Film Crew:
Supervising Sound Editor: Richard L. Anderson
Casting: Deborah Aquila
Producer: Frank Darabont
Original Music Composer: Mark Isham
Director of Photography: David Tattersall
Costume Design: Karyn Wagner
Makeup Department Head: Bill Corso
Editor: Jim Page
Production Design: Gregory Melton
First Assistant Editor: Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Screenplay: Michael Sloane
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mel Metcalfe
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Terry Porter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dean A. Zupancic
First Assistant Editor: Vince Filippone
Set Production Assistant: Jacob Cooney
Boom Operator: Tom Hartig
Set Decoration: Natalie Pope
Script Supervisor: Lyn Matsuda Norton
Still Photographer: Ralph Nelson Jr.
Steadicam Operator: David Emmerichs
Music Editor: Thomas A. Carlson
Gaffer: H. Mark Vuille
Script Supervisor: Susan Malerstein
Production Sound Mixer: Mark Ulano
Rigging Gaffer: Todd Sater
Production Supervisor: Alison Harstedt
Stunts: Katie Rowe
Movie Reviews:
GenerationofSwine: It’s time for the Majestic review….

…RED SCARE!!!!
It makes a play at it in the very start of the film. It loudly proclaims that, HEY, WATCH THIS MOVIE, IT’S ABOUT FREE SPEECH AND THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST!!!!! And it does it as loud as it can…
…and then it kind of forgets what the movie is about up until the last 15 minutes.
However, the bulk of the movie does seem like the kind of film that would fit in the Hollywood Blacklist Era. The plot, the acting, the setting, all seems to be very much a 1950s feel good movie…
…and then it veers off again and delivers on the 1st Amendment moral to end the film with a light heavy hand…if that makes sense.
So, it feels disjointed, but in a way that oddly fits the premise to begin with. Almost as if it is trying to be a movie in a movie, which might have been the point.
Watch it once, it will entertain you. Watch it more than once and you’ll be bored.