A woman (Moore) trying to cope with her son’s tragic death in a plane crash 14 months ago starts noticing that pictures and videos of him are disappearing from the house. Eventually, everyone she knows, including her balding husband Anthony Edwards, starts acting like the kid never existed and begins treating her like a nutjob who belongs in a loony bin. But she knows that someone or something out there is purposefully trying to erase her son from her memory completely. Why? Well, I can’t tell you that but I can tell you that ER’s Anthony Edwards is grabbing any small part he can now…

For a harmless popcorn thrillfest that clocks in under a buck and a half, this movie actually has a lot of heart. There are a good half dozen scenes in which Julianne is speaking to someone about her son, whom she believes is still alive, and you can actually get a sense of how it would feel for a mother who has been robbed of her young child. In other words, Julianne does anything but sleepwalk through this one. The same cannot be said about Gary Sinise and Anthony Edwards though. Not to say they are bad, because they aren’t, in fact their participation in the movie makes this cheese-filled romp all the more fun because you can try to guess whether or not Sinise will yet again be playing the bad guy…or not. Edwards is just plain filler as he plays a clueless husband just trying to get parts after ER. Once in a while, I like simple, screwy thrillers with not much meat to them but still enough to satisfy all my lazy cinematic desires on a rainy Sunday night in. THE FORGOTTEN not only gave me all that, but it also threw in some gorgeous autumn scenes of New York City and a bad guy who was trying his best to look and act like Robert Patrick’s terminator character in T2.

“We can’t all be heroes, lady” is a line spoken by Dominic West, the super cool actor who plays the role of a father who is helping Julianne out in her mission so he can also find his “missing” daughter. I mention this because I laughed my ass off when I heard him utter that line in the cinema; not because it’s delivered badly, because it isn’t, but because it’s delivered by a no nonsense actor having a good time in his first dumb-fun thriller outing. Good on him, I say! As I said before, this movie is just trying to give you a cool little mystery and doesn’t drop a whole bunch of twists on you just because it’s in fashion to do so. So pour your salsa and sour cream, buy your tortilla chips, chill the Coke and grate that cheese, because your nachos will taste all the better when you sit yourself down for the simple, yet effective - THE FORGOTTEN.

Video: 1.85:1 Widescreen.

Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (5.1) and Thai (5.1) languages. Subtitles in English, French, Chinese, Korean and Thai.

Never-Before-Seen Extended Cut with Deleted Scenes and an Alternate Ending Incorporated: Along with the original version of the film, you have the choice to view this version that includes the deleted scenes and alternate ending that are also, separately, a part of these extras. That’s 2 movies for 1. Unfortunately Anthony Edwards only got paid once for the movie.

Director and Writer Commentary: We have here a very nice back & forth between these two easy-going and likeable guys. The writer starts everything off by explaining how a dream of his inspired him writing the film and they take it from there…Pretty good commentary track, overall.

Deleted Scenes: There are 3 in total, including the alternate ending. I liked the different take this ending has and it’s definitely worth looking at to judge for yourself; it’s the same result but with a slight difference getting there.

Remembering The Forgotten (19 minutes): The writer, director and the majority of the cast all give their thoughts and take on what it was like working on the film... an above-average featurette.

On the Set: The Making of The Forgotten (14 minutes): Um, this is pretty much the same as the above. Why they didn’t just put these together and make it simpler, I’ll never know.

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