I just finished watching (for the first time) one of the best movies I've seen in years ..... "The Majestic" starring Jim Carrey in a totally serious role, and one of the best performances I've seen in MANY years!

Carrey portrays a movie screenwriter in the 1950s Hollywood Communist witch hunt period. He has a car accident and ends up with amnesia in a small Californian town. The local townspeople mistake him for one of their own who they believed was killed in WWII and the movie goes on to show how he affects their lives (positively).

It reminds you immediately of a Frank Capra movie; it has all the hokey, sentimental trappings but they work on every level. It's directed by Frank Darabont - the same guy who screen wrote "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" (two of my favorite movies) and this one is every bit as good as those two!

If you haven't seen it, DO SO!! 4 stars for sure!!!!

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