The Forgotten (DVD)

Telly Paretta was mother to 9-year-old son, Sam. She has memories, photos, home videos and paper clippings of the fateful day 14 months earlier when her sons plane crashed, killing six children aboard who were on there way to summer camp. Grieving Telly, has been trying to come to terms with her loss for over a year, seeing a psychiatrist, Dr Jack Munce. She seems to be doing better, coping without Sam, watching the videos less and starting work again, until one day she goes to look through her sons photo album and all the pictures are missing. Upon further investigation all the home videos are now blank too. Blaming her husband for trying to make ...

The Forgotten are those who die and slowly but surely fade from your memory. Friends and family you loved, and mourned, but need to forget for the sake of your sanity and your own life. The body needs to repair itself from mental injury as much as physical and the ‘removal’ of certain memories can save us from the continual pain and sadness they cause. The Forgotten is based around this idea. Telly (Julianne Moore – Hannibal, The Ideal Husband) and Jim Paretta’s (Anthony Edwards – ER, Northfork & Top Gun) son, Sam, died in a plane crash while heading off on a camping trip with other children. 14 months later she is still haunted by Sam’s death and is ...

The Plot ======= The film starts with Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore), a mother who is still grieving for her nine year old son 14 months after he died in a plane crash. She is seeing a psychiatrist about it and relations are strained between herself and her husband. She is devastated when they inform her that she never had a son. She is suffering from mental illness and has fabricated all the memories. Telly cannot believe this and sets out determined to prove that her son did exist. She recruits the help of Ash (Dominic West), a father whose daughter was friends with Sam and died in the same crash. At first he says he never had a daughter and ...