Synopsis
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
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Cast
- Jim CarreyPeter Appleton
- Bob BalabanElvin Glyde
- Jeffrey DeMunnMayor Ernie Cole
- Hal HolbrookCongressman Doyle
- Laurie HoldenAdele Stanton
- Martin LandauHarry Trimble
- Brent BriscoeSheriff Cecil Coleman
- Ron RifkinKevin Bannerman
- Gerry BlackEmmett Smith
- David Ogden StiersDoc Stanton
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
It tells a full story with three acts, it introduces characters we get to know and care about, and it has something it passionately wants to say. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Maybe this well-loved Luke is who his neighbors want him to be, a good fellow who, with his father, reopens the old movie house in town -- the Majestic -- thus allowing his neighbors to dream in the dark again. - 50
Boston Globe
A sweet, visually handsome sermon, but it's too dramatically bland to convert even the converted. - 50
USA Today
A pale imitation that challenges credulity and tries too hard to win our hearts with schmaltz. - 30
Washington Post
It's too manufactured and deliberate to be persuasive. - 25
Baltimore Sun
The indisputably gifted Jim Carrey shows the side of him that just wants to be loved - the Riddler on Ritalin, the Mask unmasked. And it turns out to be stultifying. - 20
Los Angeles Times
The Majestic isn't. Rather it's "The Film That Wasn't There," a derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried. And it tries, oh, how it tries. - 20
Newsweek
I staggered out of this shameless, interminable movie feeling as if I'd been force-fed a ton of mealy, artificially sweetened baby food.
