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You wake up at the end of the Coney Island train line with no memory of who you are or how you got there. After turning yourself into the cops and winding up in the psych ward for a couple of days things get a whole lot brighter: it turns out that you are a wealthy former stockbroker, retired at 30, with a succession of ex-model girlfriends eager to rush to your aid.
This is exactly what happened to Doug Bruce, a Brit living in New York who was stricken with one of the most exotic forms of amnesia. He can still perform every learned skill and function normally, except that he has lost every personal experience in his life. Every friend, family member or lover is a complete stranger. He experiences fireworks, sex and his first joint all over again. Every bite of food is a new experience. Travel is a whole new adventure ever since he forgot that he used to routinely fly to the West Indies for Test Matches.
"A real-life psychological mystery that does not simply chronicle the unexplained evaporation of a life but examines the nature of memory itself. The result is a truly extraordinary story told with a striking visual style and tremendous heart." - Sundance Film Festival
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D Rupert Murray P Beadi Finzi WS Forward Entertainment TD video/col/ 2005/87mins
