Review of The Majestic (2001) by Ken S — 13 Feb 2015

After getting blacklisted, a Hollywood writer goes for a drive, ends up driving off a bridge, conking his head, losing his memory, and washing up on a beach. He is taken into a small town, where he is quickly mistaken for a presumed dead soldier and son of one of the townsfolk.

He comes to accept his role as the son and helps the father rebuild is classy old movie house, before his real life comes back to him and he must face the House Un-American Activities Committee, and prove he isn't a communist.

It is one of Frank Darabont's few films not adapting a work of Stephen King, and it is a solid homage to Frank Capra movies, though unlike Darabont's others films, you feel this one's length a bit more.

It needed some trimming both in it's script and it's editing, but there is some heart in the film, and I enjoy anyone trying to make a Capra-like film, which had he known where to make cuts, this might have been perfect.