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Rules of Amusement Why Hollywood (and Tom Hanks) can't resist the lovably eccentric world of Joel and Ethan Coen...
...this science-fiction comedy-drama, in which love means never having to remember you were sorry. When Joel learns Clem has had her memory of their affair removed by a Dr. Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), he resolves to do the same; why should he suffer remorse when Clem's slate is clean? So he sticks his head in Dr. M.'s apparatus--an Ed Wood--style space helmet mixed with a hair dryer--but, as his mind swims through the memory-erasure process, he decides that even the rotten memories of Clem are worth treasuring. How to stop all this, escape...
...film says love could be the emotional equivalent of muscle memory; it's buried so deep that even modern science, or science fiction, can't reach it. Love isn't what we remember; it's what we are. For all the memory Dr. M. extracts from Joel, the doctor neglects to remove his patient's heart, and that leads the poor sap right back to his unforgettable inamorata. If it's meant to happen, it will, over and over. You can't erase destiny...
...like Joel, with love in his eyes and lust for a strange adventure...
...lark, after the University of Chicago, she took a bit part in movies and graduated to co-starring roles in such films as An American Tragedy, Little Women and I Walked with a Zombie. Equally impressive by Hollywood standards, she sustained a 57-year marriage to actor Joel McCrea...