The Majestic (2001) on Netflix
In 1951, screenwriter Peter Appleton is labeled a communist. A car crash leaves him with amnesia. In the town of Lawson, Harry Trimble takes him for his son Luke, missing in action.
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In 1951, Peter Appleton writes screenplays for HHS Studios, where his new film is about to come out and he is dating the star Sandra Sinclair. A college meeting he attended with a girlfriend brings suspicion that he is a Communist, and a congressional hearing looms. The studio drops his contract, and a night of drinking ends when his car goes off a bridge on the California coast. He washes up on the beach at Lawson without his memory. Stan Keller finds him, Doc Stanton treats his wounds, and Harry Trimble, whose son Luke was reported missing in action in the war, takes him for Luke. Adele Stanton had been engaged to Luke. Peter settles into the town and helps Harry reopen the Majestic, its derelict movie theater.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Majestic (2001)
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- The town of Ferndale, California supplied many of the interior and exterior locations for The Majestic. The film's namesake theater was built as a false front in the Ferndale municipal parking lot, and many of its Main Street buildings were modified by the film company.
- The Majestic is the only theatrical film Frank Darabont directed that is not an adaptation of a work by Stephen King.
