Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

5.00
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    2004

    Synopsis

    Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

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    Cast

    • Jim CarreyJoel Barish
    • Kate WinsletClementine Kruczynski
    • Kirsten DunstMary Svevo
    • Mark RuffaloStan Fink
    • Elijah WoodPatrick
    • Tom WilkinsonDr. Howard Mierzwiak
    • Jane AdamsCarrie Eakin
    • David CrossRob Eakin
    • Deirdre O'ConnellHollis Mierzwiak
    • Thomas Jay RyanFrank

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Not only (Kaufman's) most accessible and romantic screenplay, it's his most complete. The third act works like a charm and pulls all his themes, characters and conflicts together beautifully.
    • 100

      Premiere

      A wildly imaginative, hugely entertaining tour de force that asks big questions about life and love and fate while never ceasing to fully engage the viewer.
    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      Watching Eternal Sunshine, you don't just watch a love story -- you fall in love with what love really is.
    • 90

      Variety

      If films about coping with memory loss and/or reverse-order storytelling now constitute a mini-genre, then Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is arguably the best of the lot.
    • 90

      Time

      Kaufman may be counting on the audience's will, insistence and yearning to create a coherent love story from the shards and shrapnel he provides us.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      It's a baroque and intermittently brilliant brain twister so convoluted that it inevitably deposits the viewer in an alternate universe.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      Chases so many ideas that it threatens to spin out of control. But with our multiplexes stuffed with toxic Hollywood formula, it's a gift to find a ballsy movie that thinks it can do anything, and damn near does.
    • 88

      ReelViews

      This is unlike any other film I have seen... it's a great romance. It's willingness to flout conventions and eschew formulas is just one of many things to celebrate about this charmingly eccentric movie.

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