The Majestic [videorecording] / Castle Rock Entertainment presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment, a Darkwoods production ; producer, Frank Darabont ; writer, Michael Sloane ; director, Frank Darabont.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 22119 | Warner Home Video (disc)22699 | Warner Home Video (container)D22119 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: [United States] : Warner Home Video, [2002]Edition: Widescreen version (1.85:1)Description: 1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 079076511X
- 9780790765112
- Director of photography, David Tattersall ; editor, Jim Page ; music, Mark Isham ; costume designer, Karyn Wagner ; production designer, Gregory Melton.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world with his first motion picture "Sand Pirates of the Sahara" just released to theaters and his romance with a beautiful starlet (Amanda Detmer) heating up. However, his triumph turns to dismay when he's called before the commie-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee and advised by a studio lawyer and his agent to play ball with the witch hunters. Depressed by the film industry's weak-kneed reaction to the hearings, Pete gets drunk and drives his car north along the California coast, where he crashes from a bridge and wakes up on shore the next morning suffering from amnesia. Wandering into the nearby small town of Lawson, Pete is mistaken for Luke Trimble, a lost hero of World War II who, like most of the area's young men, never returned from the war a decade earlier. "Luke" has soon reunited with both his father (Martin Landau) and his one-time girlfriend (Laurie Holden), and finds that his reappearance has given the citizens of Lawson an emotional boost that's sorely needed. When he refurbishes and reopens his family's decrepit movie theater, the Majestic, Luke revitalizes Lawson just as his memory of his true identity begins to reassert itself. Sloane's original script for The Majestic (2001) was entitled The Bijou. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: movie within a movie: "Sand Pirates of the Sahara"--The complete sequence; additional scenes; theatrical trailer; cast/crew highlights.
Director of photography, David Tattersall ; editor, Jim Page ; music, Mark Isham ; costume designer, Karyn Wagner ; production designer, Gregory Melton.
Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Brent Briscoe, Jeffrey DeMunn, Amanda Detmer, Allen Garfield, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Ron Rifkin, David Ogden Stiers, James Whitmore.
Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter settles into his life at the Majestic theater, as Luke Trimble, until his memory begins to resurface and government men track him down.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital.
English or French dialogue, English or French subtitles, closed captioned.