2008 Woodie Awards
Forgotten Flies As Heart Stopping Thriller
Issue date: 9/30/04 Section: Arts and Entertainment
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What would you do if you if you knew that you had a child and that the child had died, but everyone around you told that it never happened and he never existed? That is what happened in the film The Forgotten a psychological thriller starring Julianne Moore. The film develops around the character Telly (Moore), a Brooklyn mother whose 9-year-old son was killed in a plane crash along with five other children.
The film opens with Moore's character Telly struggling to deal with the tragedy many months after the fact. She has become so completely obsessed with her dead son, that she completely estranges herself from her husband, Jim (Anthony Marshall). To aid her healing process, she goes to her psychologist, Dr. Munce, (Oscar-nominated Gary Sinise) for therapy to cope with the pain of losing her child.
During this time she begins to notice that things in her life don't seem to add together correctly. Small things begin to go amiss and she begins to think that things that do not appear as they should. Her psychologist and husband tell her that she is suffering from delusions and has made everything up in her mind.
In an act of desperation to prove she isn't crazy, she goes to find any evidence that her son did exist. But she finds nothing- no books, no pictures, no articles of clothing.
To the rest of the world she was going crazy, but in her mind she knew they were wrong and that such strong feelings for her child couldn't have been made up. She finds a confidante in another parent, Ash Correll (Dominic West), who also lost a child at the same time.
He too, at first, could not remember he had had a daughter, but subconsciously develops a drinking problem because of the unresolved matter. Telly soon was able to convince him of the truth, and plunge into the mystery of why the puzzle pieces do not add concerning the disappearance of their children.
Ash and Telly are alone in the belief that their children existed, so together go in search of the truth behind their missing children and to prove their sanity.
The film opens with Moore's character Telly struggling to deal with the tragedy many months after the fact. She has become so completely obsessed with her dead son, that she completely estranges herself from her husband, Jim (Anthony Marshall). To aid her healing process, she goes to her psychologist, Dr. Munce, (Oscar-nominated Gary Sinise) for therapy to cope with the pain of losing her child.
During this time she begins to notice that things in her life don't seem to add together correctly. Small things begin to go amiss and she begins to think that things that do not appear as they should. Her psychologist and husband tell her that she is suffering from delusions and has made everything up in her mind.
In an act of desperation to prove she isn't crazy, she goes to find any evidence that her son did exist. But she finds nothing- no books, no pictures, no articles of clothing.
To the rest of the world she was going crazy, but in her mind she knew they were wrong and that such strong feelings for her child couldn't have been made up. She finds a confidante in another parent, Ash Correll (Dominic West), who also lost a child at the same time.
He too, at first, could not remember he had had a daughter, but subconsciously develops a drinking problem because of the unresolved matter. Telly soon was able to convince him of the truth, and plunge into the mystery of why the puzzle pieces do not add concerning the disappearance of their children.
Ash and Telly are alone in the belief that their children existed, so together go in search of the truth behind their missing children and to prove their sanity.