{4.5\/5} “That’s why we call it The Majestic. Any man, woman, child could buy their ticket, walk right in. Here they’d be, here we’d be. ‘Yes sir, yes ma’am. Enjoy the show.’ And in they’d come entering a palace, like in a dream, like in heaven. Maybe you had worries and problems out there, but once you came through those doors, they didn’t matter anymore.”<\/p>\n
Peter is a screenwriter whose first movie is now playing. But someone thinks he’s a communist and he’s been blacklisted. When he gets in an accident and washes on shore near a small town, he has amnesia — but the people in the town think they recognize him. They think he’s Luke, a man who went off to war and never came back. Harry, Luke’s father, takes Peter home and decides to reopen their movie theatre that’s been closed for many years.<\/p>\n
The Majestic<\/strong> was released in 2001. I’m fairly sure this is the second time I’ve seen it.<\/p>\n It’s about a town who lost many of its young men to a war. It’s about a man without a past who reinvents himself. And it’s about the House Committee on Un-American Activities, zealously searching for communists.<\/p>\n Martin Landau is a joy to watch here, as the man who wants most to have his son back. Jim Carrey is in his serious mode — The Truman Show<\/strong> rather than The Mask<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n