Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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Studio: Focus Features
Rating: R
Release Date: Mar 19, 2004
Running Time: 108 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Joel is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine has had the memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak, to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories progressively begin to disappear, he begins to discover their earlier passion. From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure. As Dr. Mierzwiak and his crew chase him through the maze of his memories, it's clear that Joel can't get Clementine out of his head.
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - September 22, 2004
Here's one of the rare films released early in 2004 that stands a shot at Oscar. Jim Carrey drops the goofy faces to play a reclusive New Yorker who erases his two-year relationship with a free-spirited girl (a never-better Kate Winslet). Hell, she erased him first. Both lovers see a TV ad for a company that puts you in weird headgear while experts, the creepiest played by Elijah Wood, zap your memories. Talk about a mind fuck. The script is the deft work of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich Continued
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rating March 9, 2004
Don't expect anything standard-issue from this uniquely funny, unpredictably tender and unapologetically twisted romance. Jim Carrey, dropping the goofy faces, has never done anything this deeply felt. The brilliant screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), often accused of an excess of cleverness, plumbs new emotional depths. And visionary director Michel Gondry, whose music-video flash for the likes of Bjork, Radiohead and the White Stripes kept his 2001 collaboration… Continued
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With Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, writer Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) has succinctly combined his innate quirkiness with his intuitive imagination to create one of the more ingenious yet simplistic love stories ever written.

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The title, taken from a poem by 17th century poet Alexander Pope, may be long and involved but it accurately paints the film's scenario: A love affair, even if it turns out to be a painful one, can never really be completely… Continued

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Joel Barish
Clementine Kruczynski
Patrick
Young Joel Barish
Dr Howard Mierzwiak
Carrie
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