Forgetting Dad

November. 22,2008      
Rating:
6.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can't "remember" being a father. Nearly twenty years later, his amnesia persists, yet no brain damage or physical cause are ever found. Enthralling and thought-provoking, "Forgetting Dad" offers an award-winning case study of dissociation, parental abandonment, and family enmenshment in mental illness.

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Reviews

Diagonaldi
2008/11/22

Very well executed

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Fairaher
2008/11/23

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Siflutter
2008/11/24

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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Allison Davies
2008/11/25

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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