The Forgotten

Leading Role:   Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Christopher Kovaleski, Matthew Pleszewicz, Anthony Edwards Director:   Joseph Ruben Genre:   Drama  TV Series Release Date:   2009 Studio:   Sony Pictures Aspect Ratio:   1.78 : 1 Sound Mix:   Dolby Digital Language:   English with removable subtitles Format:   Support both NTSC & PAL Boxed Set:   Season 1 Discs:   6 pcs Weight:   0.5 kg Summary of The Forgotten With a plot that might've been lifted from The X-Files, nothing is quite what it seems in The Forgotten, a psychological conspiracy thriller with Julianne Moore doing fine work as a grieving mother whose nine-year-old son was killed in a plane crash. At least, that's what she's been led to believe, but when even her husband (Anthony Edwards) tries to convince her that she's delusional and never had a child, things start to get very spooky indeed. Dominic West (from HBO's superb series The Wire) plays a similarly traumatized father, and when they witness some very strange events--and a Mysterious man (Linus Roache) who might be indestructible--this glorified B-movie potboiler directed by Joseph Ruben (best known for Dreamscape  and The Stepfather) turns into a preposterous but entertaining trip into The Twilight Zone territory. Featuring Alfre Woodard as an intuitive New York detective and Gary Sinise as a seemingly sympathetic psychiatrist, The Forgotten offers adequate shocks and an intriguing, otherworldly study of tenacious parental instinct. It deserved its mixed reviews, but it's a fun spook-fest for rainy-day viewing