Product Details

• Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook
• Directors: Frank Darabont
• Writers: Michael Sloane
• Producers: Frank Darabont, Anna Garduno, Claudia Cummings, Jim Behnke, Linda Fields
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: June 18, 2002
• Run Time: 152 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (169 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JKNC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,309 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "The Majestic" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

A fiasco from the director Frank Darabont. Jim Carrey plays a hack screenwriter who, in the early fifties, runs into trouble with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Out for a drive, he gets bonked on the head, suffers from amnesia, and winds up in a small town on the California coast where he's taken for a missing war hero. Since we know he's not a war hero, we feel only chagrin and impatience as he's lionized by the town. The movie appears to be a square version of what Preston Sturges pulled off as hilarious satire in "Hail the Conquering Hero," in 1944. Darabont paces the inert material more slowly than the funeral of Edward VII, and Carrey, unable to use his lank, big body, gives a dull performance. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Product Description

Investigated as a Communist by the U.S. government and blacklisted by the studio he was working for, B-movie screenwriter Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) secretly yearns for a new life. His wish is fulfilled when a freak accident gives him amnesia and lands him in a small coastal California town that's suffering from post-WW II depression, having lost 62 young men in the war. The Majestic is producer/director Frank Darabont's first major feature not based on a Stephen King story, yet it still captures much of the same mysticism and magic of his previous films, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. There's nothing special about the amnesia angle, but it ends up merely being a catalyst for a broader examination of how fragile and fallible memory can be. Carrey is quite good as the charming, but spineless writer who, inspired by those who lost so many friends and family members in the war, eventually stands up for himself. Martin Landau is terrific as theatre owner Harry Trimble and the rest of Carrey's supporting cast is solid. The half hour spent establishing Appleton's amnesia is a little less than subtle ("Are you sure you don't remember anything?") and could have easily been trimmed to get The Majestic under a more reasonable two hours, but this is otherwise a very enjoyable film that was overlooked when it was first released at Christmas 2001. --Adem Tepedelen