Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [HD DVD] | ![Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZsM1lZ19L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Michel Gondry
Actors: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  692 reviews
Sales Rank: 20958
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
UPC: 025193283122
EAN: 0025193283122
ASIN: B000N3SSBM
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 2004
Release Date: April 24, 2007
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Screenwriters rarely develop a distinctive voice that can be recognized from movie to movie, but the ornate imagination of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) has made him a unique and much-needed cinematic presence. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a guy decides to have the memories of his ex-girlfriend erased after she's had him erased from her own memory--but midway through the procedure, he changes his mind and struggles to hang on to their experiences together. In other hands, the premise of memory-erasing would become a trashy science-fiction thriller; Kaufman, along with director Michel Gondry, spins this idea into a funny, sad, structurally complex, and simply enthralling love story that juggles morality, identity, and heartbreak with confident skill. The entire cast--Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, and more--give superb performances, carefully pitched so that cleverness never trumps feeling. A great movie. --Bret Fetzer
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From acclaimed writer Charlie Kaufman and visionary director Michel Gondry comes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An all-star ensemble cast shines in this comical and poignant look at breakups, breakdowns and breakthroughs. Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), to get the same treatment. But as his memories of Clementine begin to fade, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood co-star in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - a memorable film that The Wall Street Journal calls "a romantic comedy unlike any other!"
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 Nice movie August 10, 2010
Brit
Love the movie, wish I would have just paid for regular shipping though because I think I would have gotten it at about the same time.
 Great movie. July 14, 2010
Catherine J. Price
This movie arrived on time and I was very pleased with the condition. No complaints.
 ETERNAL SUBTERRANEAN MAZE is more like it. July 10, 2010
B. Tween_DeLions (USA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
It was an interesting film, but not at all what I expected. It started out with forlorn music and winter lighting. Winter is a time of depression for many people, and one way to beat winter depression is by exposing oneself to artificial sunlight. Since this movie had sunshine in the title, I expected a sunny movie. But the whole thing was dark and depressing to me.
Then there are the nightmarish aspects. It's not actually scary but it's disturbing. It's like one of those dreams you dream all night long and can't seem to wake up from. And since I don't like those kinds of dreams, I'm not inclined to watch this movie again.
I liked the story in many ways. And I know there was a positive side to it and an inspirational message. But I hated having to sit through all that depressing darkness and confusion just to get there. I agree with another reviewer that the movie is an expression of the postmodern ethos. And I'm getting damn tired of the postmodern ethos.
I love Kate Winslet. She's probably the most talented actor of her generation. I'm not a big Jim Carrey fan, but I liked him in the Truman Show and I liked him in this movie. It was the depressing lighting and nightmare-that-you-can't-wake-up-from story line that killed this movie for me.
Eternal Sunshine? It was more like an eternal subterranean maze with no exit and no sunshine at the end. This movie was really misnamed. I think the premise was a good one. But I think the director should have taken his own advice and let a little sunshine into this movie. It was far to dark, both in regard to lighting and in spirit. It could have been a feel-good movie. But in my opinion it was depressing. Life is depressing enough. Sometimes I need a story to remind me that life is worthwhile and to help me wash away the stresses of the day. This movie didn't do that for me.
Garbage June 30, 2010
Mike A. (Redmond, WA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Tasteless, pathetic, boring nonsense. Cartoonish bohemian characters. It is not funny or romantic.
He Almost Made Me Forget ... June 27, 2010
Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
.... Jim Carrey, I mean. He almost made me forget that he is eternally, recurrently, ineluctably "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective"! Almost, I say. He is a masterful actor, and he plays the sad sack Joel as plausibly as anyone could. But whatever slouch he adopts, whatever stubble covers his chin, he's still The Grinch, Loki, Truman, and above all Ace! Ventura! At some fundamental level of thespian craft, he fails. He needs the help of Dr. Mierzwiak to erase MY memories of his previous roles.
Kate Winslet has no such handicap. It never occurred to me to remember her in any other role. In this film, in the role of the 'impetuous' Clementine, she's every man's worst memory. If I'd survived hooking up with Clementine in my flaming youth, I'd pay to have the memory erased also. But this is a film about Recurrence - endless cycles of predestined Recurrence! - a Kosmic Kharma Komedy. "In this whole world / you can love but one girl / let me be that one girl / I'll be true to you", as the Shirelles sang when I was a teenager, with the implication that 'not only will you never be able to forget me after I dump you but you'll always always find another me.' In other words, this film is more a tragedy than a comedy, a coy examination of how vulnerable we humans are to our own psyches. No, amigos, that is NOT a happy ending.
But there's also a meta-message in the film: we are what we remember. Tampering with the brain, with memory, is risky business, a Dr Frankenstein trick. "Eternal Sunshine" is a sort of science fiction film. Plausibility isn't relevant. We the audience are supposed to think deeply about its implications. That might be where the film falls short; it's too zany for its concept to be taken seriously. All the flashbooks to memories being expunged, while Joel is unconscious, clash too bizarrely to stimulate much empathy. Joel at half size, hiding under his Mommy's kitchen table, is .... wait! He's ... Ace Ventura Pet Detective!
I skipped this film when it was first run. Who remembers why? But I had to see it now, after watching the film "Synecdoche New York" by the same screen-writer Charlie Kaufman. Frankly, "Eternal Sunshine" seems like a practice piece, a warm-up for the powerful expressiveness of "Synecdoche".
My wife watched "Eternal Sunshine" with me. She insisted that I include, in any review of it, her protest against the demeaning (she said) portrayal of the three women characters. But she also gave me permission to declare that the film was "entertaining."
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