The Majestic (2001)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Frank Darabont

Guionista (WGA):

Michael Sloane (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 diciembre 2001 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Sometimes your life comes into focus one frame at a time.

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Small Town | Communist | Amnesia | Memory | Screenwriter

Premios:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Feel good

Reparto

Jim Carrey	...	Peter Appleton
Bob Balaban	...	Elvin Clyde
Jeffrey DeMunn	...	Ernie Cole
Hal Holbrook	...	Congressman Doyle
Laurie Holden	...	Adele Stanton
Martin Landau	...	Harry Trimble
Brent Briscoe	...	Sheriff Cecil Coleman
Ron Rifkin	...	Kevin Bannerman
Gerry Black	...	Emmett Smith
David Ogden Stiers	...	Doc Stanton
James Whitmore	...	Stan Keller
Susan Willis	...	Irene Terwilliger
Catherine Dent	...	Mabel
Brian Howe	...	Carl Leffert / Head of the Studio
Karl Bury	...	Bob Leffert

También conocida como:

The Bijou (USA) (working title)
El Majestic (Argentina) [es]
The Majestic (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for language and mild thematic elements.

Duración:

152 min

País:

USA | Australia

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Sweden:7 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Brazil:Livre | Canada:PG | Finland:K-7 | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:I | Ireland:G | Netherlands:AL | Norway:7 | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Ferndale, California, USA

Compañía:

Castle Rock Entertainment

Trivialidades:

Several elements of the movie borrow from the real-life Hollywood Ten of blacklisted members of the film-making industry. The name of the town that adopts Jim Carrey's character as a long-lost son is Lawson; one of the targeted screenwriters was named John Howard Lawson. Another writer, Lester Cole, shares a surname with a movie character, Lawson's mayor. There is also a strong similarity between Luke and Harry's last name, Trimble, and the surname of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Errores:

Anacronismos: The diesel locomotive pulling the train that Pete is riding back to Lawson near the end of the movie is a later model Electro Motive Division GP (general purpose) engine that was not available until the mid-60s. Diesel engines were certainly available in the early-1950s, but not that model.

Citas:

Peter Appleton: I thought this was a democracy.
Leo Kubelsky: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, they're all just pieces of paper with signatures on them. And you know what a piece of paper with a signature is, a contract. Something that can be renegotiated at any time. Just so happens that the House un-American activities committee is renegotiating the contract this time around. Next time it will be somebody else, but it will always be somebody.

Conexiones de Película:

References "The Civil War" (1990)

Banda de Sonido:

Paper Doll

Feel good

This is a nice film. A movie that will make you laugh. I smiled most of the movie, and may be that was too long (146 minutes), I enjoyed it all. The story (a man with amnesia is seen as a long lost son in a small town) is not that special, but it has some nice things to avoid the bigger cliches. Jim Carrey is great as he was in The Truman Show. The movie is very well made, and in the end you will have a nice feeling about it.