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Her
Why this pick
Like Eternal Sunshine, it turns an intimate breakup-shaped ache into inventive speculative romance, balancing surreal technology with vulnerable, funny, deeply human longing.
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MOVIE2004 1h 48m USA
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01 / THE STORY
You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jim Carrey
Joel Barish
Kate Winslet
Clementine Kruczynski
Mark Ruffalo
Stan Fink
Elijah Wood
Patrick
Tom Wilkinson
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak
Kirsten Dunst
Mary Svevo
David Cross
Rob Eakin
Thomas Jay Ryan
Frank