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The Majestic

Summary: In 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Release Date: December 21, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Frank Darabont

Writer: Michael Sloane

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 72,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,807,266

International: $ 9,510,407

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1950s 1st amendment 20th century abandoned theater african american amnesia apartment eviction applause artificial arm band bar beach blacklist blacklisting blanket boyfriend girlfriend relationship brainstorming bridge burial california capitalist car car accident cemetery chained chihuahua dog clarinet classical piano coastal town communism communist communist conspiracy communist party concession stand congestive heart failure congress congressional committee congressional hearing congressman dancing democracy diner druggist drunkenness false accusation father daughter relationship father son relationship father son reunion fbi chief fbi federal bureau of investigation federal agent film industry film within a film flashback flyswatter follow shot funeral gift grauman's chinese theatre los angeles graveyard hardware store head injury heart attack hero hiccups hollywood hollywood blacklist hollywood california hollywood sign hometown house un american activities committee house unamerican activities committee housefly huac idealism identity theft jacket stuck in car door jammed car door jealousy lawyer lighthouse long lost son look alike lookalike loss of boyfriend loss of father loss of friend love male female relationship man wears eyeglasses mayor mccarthyism medal medal of honor memory mistaken identity morality movie marquee movie palace movie projector movie star movie studio movie theater municipal celebration musician naming names newspaper headline newsreel nurse one armed man opossum parliamentary procedure patriotism pawnshop photograph piano playing playing against type playing piano pocket watch police policeman political persecution politics postcard propaganda prosthetic limb railway station rain red scare reference to benny goodman reference to buster keaton reference to carl sandburg reference to carole lombard reference to charlie chaplin reference to clark gable reference to dreyfus case reference to emile zola reference to franklin d. roosevelt reference to franz liszt reference to fred astaire reference to gene kelly reference to ginger rogers reference to greta garbo reference to harold lloyd reference to humphrey bogart reference to j. edgar hoover reference to james cagney reference to james stewart reference to jimmy stewart reference to julius and ethel rosenberg reference to katharine hepburn reference to lassie reference to ma and pa kettle reference to mount olympus reference to paul muni reference to roddy mcdowall reference to the dreyfus affair reference to the hollywood ten reference to world war one reference to world war two santa monica pier screenwriter script script writer showbiz drama small town small town doctor spying statue stolen identity studio backlot studio guard stuffed animal suspicion swatting a fly swing music sword fight telegram testimony the star spangled banner theater timeframe 1950s timeframe 20th century title spoken by character tombstone town hall town meeting toy monkey train train station u.s. constitution underwater scene voice over letter voice over narration waitress wallet war hero war memorial war veteran watching tv water wilhelm scream witch hunt world war two veteran writer year 1951

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