Very highly contrived amnesia thriller. Higher even than the average amnesia thriller. And much higher than it strictly needed to be, due to the audacious device (the anti-cinematic device) of casting two actors of different races as supposedly look-alike brothers. It's as though the image were filtered through the distorted vision of the protagonist of Nabokov's Despair. The low-budget movie has a pleasingly old-fashioned look to it -- wide-screen black-and-white, circa 1963, on location in Drabsville, Arizona -- but it moves at a snail's pace. Little drolleries such as the Tom Jones version of "Ring of Fire" on the soundtrack and the quotation-mad Japanese psychiatrist (Freud, Shakespeare, Auden) are simultaneously engaging and disengaging. With Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Michael Harris, Dina Merrill, Sab Shimono; co-written and co-directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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