In The Majestic the ever-amiable Jim Carrey finds himself stuck in another hermetic small-town film set, this time in the Fifties. He plays a shallow Hollywood writer who takes a knock on the head fleeing from the House Un-American Activities Committee. He wakes up an amnesiac who is mistaken for a returned war hero in a wholesome community constructed largely out of the American imagination. In other
words, the Truman Show without the back-cyclorama escape route.
He helps his "dad" rebuild the cinema, gets the girl, and when his past reclaims him becomes a real hero to deserve her.
My science teacher used to put teeth in a glass of Coca-Cola overnight to show the corrosive effect of too much sugar. This film has roughly the same effect and seems to take at least as long.
The Majestic
Cert: certPG
