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Memento (2000)

14A  -  Mystery | Thriller  -  25 May 2001 (USA)
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A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.

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Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time. Written by Scion013

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Some memories are best forgotten

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Mystery | Thriller

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Box Office

Budget:

$9,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$235,488 (USA) (16 March 2001)

Gross:

$25,530,884 (USA) (9 November 2001)
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Before Carrie-Anne Moss was cast as Natalie, Ashley Judd, Famke Janssen and Angelina Jolie were considered to play the role. See more »

Goofs

When Leonard enters Dodd's room at the motel, the doorknob changes position between the outside and inside shots. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Leonard Shelby: [voiceover] So where are you? You're in some motel room. You just - you just wake up and you're in - in a motel room. There's the key. It feels like maybe it's just the first time you've been there, but perhaps you've been there for a week, three months. It's - it's kind of hard to say. I don't - I don't know. It's just an anonymous room.
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References Winterschläfer (1997) See more »

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Motherlode
Written by Chuck Hamshaw & Mark Schmidt
Published by JRM Music (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Megatrax Production Music, Inc. (1994)
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Best Movie of 2001 (Thus Far)
15 May 2001 | by (Columbus, Mississippi) – See all my reviews

Incredible, riveting and powerful. What else could I say? This movie has all of the qualities of classic film noir as well as the magnitude of an original, unique concept that has been tried and tired before but works here.

Guy Pearce has been underrated for years (just think back now to Priscilla and can you believe this is the same guy) and finally might get the recognition here that was at least well-deserved of him back for LA Confidential. Powerful perfomances, well developed story with suspensful buildup of what our main character pieces together little by little makes this a must see.

Easily in my top 100 of all time.


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