Jim Carrey

Kate Winslet

Kirsten Dunst

Mark Ruffalo

Elijah Wood

Tom Wilkinson

Jane Adams

David Cross

Deirdre O'Connell

Thomas Jay Ryan

Ryan Whitney

Lola Daehler

Debbon Ayer

Gerry Robert Byrne

Brian Price

Josh Flitter

Paulie Litt

Amir Ali Said

Lauren Adler

Michel Gondry

Jon Brion

Ellen Kuras

Anthony Bregman

Steve Golin

Christopher Norr

Charlie Kaufman

Pierre Bismuth

David Stein

Allen Weisinger

Mark Dornfeld

Louis Morin

Kam Chan

Marko Costanzo

Eugene Gearty

George A. Lara

Marissa Littlefield

Tom Nelson

Jay Peck

Fred Rosenberg

Reilly Steele

Paul Urmson

Valdís Óskarsdóttir

Jeanne McCarthy

Melissa Toth

Dan Leigh

Ron von Blomberg

Mary Cybulski

David L. Bushell

Glenn Williamson

Georges Bermann

John C. Nadeau

Michael Hausman

Scott Ferguson

Peter Thorell

Philip Stockton

Jeffrey Rollins

Ray Angelic

Carlos Omar Guerra

Braden Belmonte

Peter Agliata

Mark Schmidt

Stanley Fernandez Jr.

Christopher Raymond

Angela Bellisio

David Lee

Tommy Louie

Scott P. Murphy

Hinju Kim

Natalie N. Dorset

Addy McClelland

Michael Leather

Ruth DeLeon

Roman Greller

David Scott Gagnon

John Roche

Brian Buteau

Christian Brockey

Francesca Paris

Noriko Watanabe

Peter Owen

Kyra Panchenko

Michelle Johnson

Jill Kliber

Lisa R. Frucht

David Page

Cara Borrelli

Joseph Quirk

Mark Summers

Andrea Cronin-Souza

Paul Daley

Robert M. Andres

Chris Skutch

Lamont Crawford

Alison Barton

Mel Cannon

Tony Campenni

John Panuccio

Kevin Ladson

R. Vincent Smith

Morgan Pitts

Brian Smyj

Danny Aiello III

E.J. Evans

Stephanie Finochio

Artie Malesci

Stephen A. Pope

Bill Anagnos

John R. Favre

Cort Hessler

Peewee Piemonte

Michael Russo

Frank Kern

Steven Visscher

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Andres Gomez

Fresh and surprising with great script, dialogues and cut. The cast is also fantastic.

***Inventive drama/romance with Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet and so much more***

A man (Jim Carrey) discovers that his babe (Kate Winslet) had her memory of their relationship removed via the medical procedures of an innovative company. He decides to get the surgery as well, but as the technicians (Mark Ruffalo & Elijah Wood) conduct the procedure he changes his mind! Can he escape with his memory intact and possibly save the relationship? Tom Wilkinson plays the doctor and Kirsten Dunst the secretary.    

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) is a drama/sci-fi/romance hybrid that’s so confusing during its first half that it fails to captivate (and is even annoying) but, if you persevere, everything starts making sense by the midpoint, ushering in an entertaining and insightful second half. The movie’s depth naturally makes it improve on repeat viewings wherein it’s more understandable as you put the pieces together.  

Viewers who complain that a certain person is too dramatic, selfish and high maintenance to put up with for more than a month didn’t get the closing moral, which is both true and profound: Couples can (and should) realize the flaws of their mate, which they genuinely don't like, but it's "Okay." That's true love.

There are also unexpected peripheral gems on unethical behavior in a supposedly professional environment, secret relationships, discarding unwanted skeletons, and more. Lastly, curvy, vivacious Winslet shines and it’s nice to see Carrey in a serious role.

The film runs 1 hour, 48 minutes, and was shot in the New York City area (Yonkers, Montauk, Mount Vernon, Manhattan and Brooklyn).

GRADE: A-

This was one of the first movies I really loved. Some moments are especially beautiful and I appreciate the folks who put in the labor to make this. Thank you

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a movie that uses the fragility of memory and hurt of love to show the desperate measures taken by a couple who decide to break up. After two years of living together, Introverted Joel Barrish ( Jim Carey ) and extrovert Clementine Kruczynski ( Kate Winslet ) undertake extreme procedures to erase any memory of each other. 

What director Michel Gondry and Writer Charlie Kaufman have created is a movie designed to slowly release forgotten incidents and emotions as the audience discover the film is running in reverse. Bearing witness to love’s decay the audience are thrown sidelines with the introduction of Patrick ( Elijah Wood ) and Stan ( Mark Ruffalo ). Both Patrick and Stan work for Lacuna a private medical company with some rather dodgy practices regarding memory erasure. Along with Patrick and Stan, Mary ( Kirsten Dunst ) Stan’s girlfriend is also a work colleague and joins the other two when they are tasked with erasing any memory of Clementine from Joel’s mind. Patrick however uses information provided to Lacuna by both Joel and Clementine to manipulate Clementine in an attempt to get her to fall in love with him.

What ensues is a battle of the mind to try and save their relationship after discovering that all was not as bad as the couple believed. But with each recalled memory there is a doomed ending that ends up being erased. The only hope is to try and hide Clementine in an earlier non related memory in Joel’s mind as Lacuna remove all traces of each other. The climax of the film comes with a surprise that complicates any post mind erasing procedures. 

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” evokes real devastation in lost love and tells a fantasy tale of how we all try to erase those hurtful memories. However, after everything, our memories are all we really have, they make us who we are, once they are gone, we ourselves are surely gone.

Andre Gonzales

This is a really weird movie. I had to watch it about 3 or 4 times before you really figure it out. It's a good concept but a bit confusing sometimes.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind( 2004)

You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.

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Written by Andres Gomez on Tue Feb 10 2015

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