The Majestic

1951. Peter Appleton is a Hollywood scriptwriter who is about to lose his job because he is suspected of being a communist. After a car accident, he wakes up, with amnesia, on the shores of an American town. The townspeople are convinced that he is Luke Trimble, their long lost golden boy who disappeared in WWII. Among them is Harry Trimble, Luke's father, who takes the opportunity of his son's return to re-open the "Majestic" - the local movie house which had been closed for years. This, and the acquaintance with Luke's high school sweetheart, Adele, don't make it easier for Peter when his memory begins to return. Personal and national redemption is the heart of Frank Darabont's film. Darabont makes intensive use of his manipulative cinematic style to appeal to the hearts of his viewers and convey an epic treatise with one goal: an irony-free distillation of the soul and history.