(rated PG-13)
Telly (Julianne Moore) has memory issues that are there one moment and gone the next – flashbacks of a son named Sam that she’s sure she had nine years ago. Her husband (Anthony Edwards) can’t help her. Her therapist (Gary Sinise) tells her what she doesn’t want to know, so Telly finds sanctuary in Ash (Dominic West) who tells her what she’s been waiting to hear. Just as you are seat-squirming and fed up with this nut-case woman’s certainty, the story kicks in full throttle and brings you places you never dreamed were possible, at least in a believable plot. Director Joe Ruben knows his thrillers. He brought us “The Good Son” and “Sleeping With the Enemy” and true to his style he delivers a movie this time filmed under the Brooklyn bridge, so that the lit up evening shots are both eerie and hopeful, much like the story’s main character. Moore is in desperate need of a hit after “Laws Of Attraction” and she certainly pulls out all the acting punches as a desperate mother. But what it comes down to is simply two types of audiences. Those who believe in the unknown and those who don’t. Those who don’t, will hate this movie and feel robbed. Those who do will find anything is possible.
