Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Theatrical Release Date: 2004 03 19 (USA)

UPC: 025192395925

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content]

Summary: The second feature from director Michel Gondry (Human Nature) finds the filmmaker reteaming with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman for this off-the-wall romantic comedy. Jim Carrey stars as Joel Barish, a man who is informed that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their relationship erased from her brain via an experimental procedure performed by Dr. Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson). Not to be outdone, Joel decides to have the same procedure done to himself. As Mierzwiak's bumbling underlings Stan (Mark Ruffalo) and Patrick (Elijah Wood) perform the operation on Joel -- over the course of an evening, in his apartment -- Joel struggles in his own mind to save the memories of Clementine from being deleted. Kirsten Dunst, David Cross, and Jane Adams also star. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Category: Science Fiction

Awards: In Competition – Deauville Film Festival Best Original Screenplay – National Board of Review Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking – National Board of Review Best Screenplay [Runner-up] – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Screenplay [Runner-up] – Boston Society of Film Critics Best Picture – American Film Institute Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – null Best Screenplay – null Best Director – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actress – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Screenplay (Runner-up) – National Society of Film Critics Best Actress – Screen Actors Guild Best Original Screenplay – Writers Guild of America Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Original Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Editing – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: cc"A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" - Step into the mind of the filmmakers in this behind-the-scenes look at Eternal Sunshine
"A Conversation With Jim Carrey and Director Michel Gondry" - Witness an unparalleled discussion between Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry as they reflect on their favorite moments from the making of the film
Feature commentary with Michel Gondry and writer Charlie Kaufman
Deleted scenes
The Polyphonic Spree "Light & Day" music video
Lacuna infomercial

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Format: DVD

Release Date: 09/28/2004

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 108 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Valentine's Day [3:41]
2. Clementine [6:47]
3. Two Blue Ruins [2:54]
4. Honeymoon on Ice [4:11]
5. Main Titles [1:57]
6. Erased [5:36]
7. Lacuna Inc. [2:48]
8. Empty Your Life... [7:07]
9. Erasing You [7:57]
10. Blessed Are the Forgetful [6:22]
11. Tangerine [2:44]
12. Wake Me Up [7:10]
13. Baby Joel [3:28]
14. Off the Map [12:56]
15. The Blameless Vestal's Lot [5:37]
16. Remember Me... [2:54]
17. Goodbye, Joel [7:22]
18. The Next Morning [4:07]
19. Change Your Heart... [8:13]
20. End Titles [3:41]

Josh Ralske

At once scathingly unsentimental and thrillingly romantic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the perfect date movie for smart couples. The film offers further evidence of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's amazing talent for generating intense emotional investment from seemingly absurd situations, and visual fantasist Michel Gondry shows here (as he failed to do in his first collaboration with Kaufman, Human Nature) that he is the perfect director to bring the screenwriter's brilliant, twisted, solipsistic vision to life. Gondry's visual inventiveness matches Kaufman's enjoyably offbeat conceit. In the film's jaw-dropping centerpiece, Gondry and Kaufman literally deconstruct the typical romantic comedy "falling in love" montage, as the technicians of Lacuna work on Joel's (Jim Carrey) brain, erasing the high and low points of his relationship with Clementine (Kate Winslet) as fast as he can remember them. While there's a surface similarity here to the chase through John Malkovich's subconscious in Being John Malkovich, the emotional stakes here are higher, as Joel has a change of heart during the procedure, and, aided by his own mind's version of Clementine, frantically tries to preserve a memory of her, eventually going to comically desperate lengths. Gondry surprises us again and again with the images he conjures from Kaufman's labyrinthine script. In Human Nature, it often seemed as though the filmmakers were holding the bizarre characters up to ridicule, but Eternal Sunshine is, at its core, generous and humane. We can't help but empathize with Joel's yearning or fall for Clementine's passion and confusion. The film is so generously overstuffed with ideas and jokes that it demands repeat viewing. Capturing the joys and pains of romantic obsession as few filmmakers have before, Gondry and Kaufman have come up with a masterpiece. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Paul Litowsky  Actor 
Lola Daehler  Actor 
Gerry Robert Byrne  Actor 
Josh Flitter  Actor 
Brian Price  Actor 
Amir Ali Said  Actor 
Ryan Whitney  Actor 
Steve Golin  Producer 
David L. Bushell  Executive Producer 
Jon Brion  Composer (Music Score) 
Charlie Kaufman  Executive Producer 
Charlie Kaufman  Screenwriter 
Michel Gondry  Director 
Pierre Bismuth  Screenwriter 
Glenn Williamson  Executive Producer 
Georges Bermann  Executive Producer 
Anthony Bregman  Producer 
Jim Carrey  Actor 
Kate Winslet  Actor 
Tom Wilkinson  Actor 
Mark Ruffalo  Actor 
Kirsten Dunst  Actor 
Elijah Wood  Actor 
Jane Adams  Actor 
David Cross  Actor 
Deirdre O'Connell  Actor 
Debbon Ayer  Actor 
Thomas Jay Ryan  Actor 

Country: USA