THN Top Tens: Memory Loss Movies

THE VOW is released in cinemas across the UK from today, Friday 10th February. The film, from Sony Pictures, revolves around a newly married couple, the female half of which (Rachel McAdams) is tragically involved in an accident which sends her into a coma. After awaking from the coma she suffers severe memory loss and can’t remember any of her life with her new husband (Channing Tatum)… so he has to fight to win her heart all over again.

Memory loss in the movies is no new thing, so to tie in with the release, we take a look at the top ten.

• Character’s name: Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore)
• Synopsis: Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he’s finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day…and the next day…and the next.
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• Characters name: Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce)
• Synopsis: A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
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• Characters name: Miranda Grey (Halle Berry)
• Synopsis: Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done.
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• Characters name: Douglas Quaid/Hauser (Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1990) and (Colin Farell, 2012)
• Synopsis: When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he?
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• Characters name: Roberta Glass / ‘Susan’ (Rosanna Arquette)
• Synopsis: A bored suburban housewife, seeking adventure to her life, accidentally gets hit on the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan..
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• Characters name: Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson)
• Synopsis: A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
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• Characters name: Samantha Caine / Charly Baltimore (Geena Davis)
• Synopsis:  A women suffering from amnesia begins to recover her memories after trouble from her past finds her again.
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• Characters name: Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn)
• Synopsis: Rich bitch Joanna hires country carpenter Dean to build a closet on her yacht. When the two don’t see eye-to-eye, Dean is left unpaid while Joanna sets sail. The following day, Joanna is fished out of the sea, after falling overboard, suffering from amnesia. Dean sees a neat way to regain the money she owes him… he tells her she’s his wife; that way Dean gets a free housekeeper and mother for his four kids.
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• Characters name: Jason Bourne (Matt Damon)
• Synopsis: The Bourne films are a series of action/thriller spy films based on the character Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss.
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• Characters name: Paige (Rachel McAdams)
• Synopsis: Starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, The Vow is based on the true story of a newlywed couple recovering from an accident that puts the wife in a coma. She wakes up with severe memory loss and can’t remember any of her life with her new husband…so he has to fight to win her heart all over again.
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THE VOW is released in UK cinemas fromFriday 10th February.