The Majestic
The Majestic is a 2001 American romantic period drama film directed and produced by Frank Darabont, written by Michael Sloane, and starring Jim Carrey in the title role, Bob Balaban, Brent Briscoe, Jeffrey DeMunn, Amanda Detmer, Allen Garfield, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Ron Rifkin, David Ogden Stiers, and James Whitmore. The film details a 1951 Hollywood screenwriter suspected of being a communist who suffers amnesia in a car accident and is taken in by the people of a local town who mistake him as one of their own who went MIA during World War II.
Plot
In 1951, in the midst of the Second Red Scare, Peter Appleton is an up-and-coming young screenwriter in Hollywood. He learns from studio lawyer Leo Kubelsky and his own attorney Kevin Bannerman that he has been accused of being a communist, because he attended an antiwar meeting in his college years, a meeting he claims he only attended to impress a girl.
Cast
- Allen Garfield
- Amanda Detmer
- Bob Balaban
- Brent Briscoe
- Brian Howe
- Bruce Campbell
- Carl Reiner
- Catherine Dent
- Chelcie Ross
- Cliff Curtis
- Daniel von Bargen
- David Ogden Stiers
- Earl Boen
- Frank Collison
- Garry Marshall
- Hal Holbrook
- James Whitmore
- Jeffrey DeMunn
- Jim Carrey
- Laurie Holden
- Martin Landau
- Matt Damon
- Paul Mazursky
- Ring Lardner
- Rob Reiner
- Ron Rifkin
- Scotty Leavenworth
- Sydney Pollack
More details
| author | Michael Sloane |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | California |
| director | Frank Darabont |
| editor | Jim Page |
| events | amnesia |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | antiwar car show classical music communism communist congressional committee federal agent first movie food not bombs franklin d. roosevelt hard times hear heart attack hollywood house un-american activities committee los angeles medal of honor meet mia missing in action movie star movie theater myocardial infarction new life opossum police officer red scare screenwriter screenwriting second red scare session studio executive suspect true identity u.s. constitution world war ii |
| musicBy | Mark Isham |
| producer | Frank Darabont |
| productionCompany | Castle Rock Entertainment Darkwoods Productions NPV Entertainment Village Roadshow Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| recordedAt | California Santa Monica |