Cady's Take:

It's been over a year since the death of Telly's (Julianne Moore) son Sam, and she is still having a hard time coping. She believed he had been involved in a plane crash with 9 other children until both her husband (Anthony Edwards) and her psychiatrist (Gary Sinise) tell her that she never had a son, that there was no plane crash, and that the boy only existed within her own delusional mind.

Racing to discover the truth, Telly contacts Ash (Dominic West), the father of another child who died in the crash, and the two set out to find answers , all the while avoiding an intrepid police detective (Alfre Woodard), a squad of NSA goons and a mysterious-and seemingly indestructible-man who may not belong to this world???

At first, the movie teases viewers with the "Is she crazy or isn't she?" question, which was somewhat intriguing, but that aspect of the story is dropped disappointingly quickly. The Forgotten was missing two very important elements, the story, and a plausible ending.

This was not even marginally entertaining. Julianne Moore you have now starred in two of the worst movies I have ever seen, Safe & The Forgotten!!! Please forget about renting this 90-minute disappointment.

Telly (Julianne Moore) is distraught over the death of her son. She looks at his pictures and drawings, she thinks about him all day, every day until one day - it's all gone! All the photographs, all the clothes and toys, everything is simply gone. Her husband Jim (Anthony Edwards) and her therapist Dr. Munce (Gary Sinise) inform her that this child was imagined, and that she has been imagining his entire life for nine years. Oh, and absolutely no one else she knows remembers her having a child either. No one.

This poses problems on a lot of levels and I don't just mean for Telly - this is a problem for us as well. Who is chasing Telly, and her neighbor who lost his daughter in the same plane crash she believes killed her son? Why are there government agents chasing them all over town while they run around looking for their kids? Why are government agents in movies like this always so unbelievably incompetent? Are real government agents this unbelievably incompetent? You can see where this is heading. "The Forgotten" is impossible to review without giving away plot points that will basically ruin the movie for you. Unfortunately watching the movie ruins the movie for you, so it is something of a catch-22.

If you do not find it hard to believe that our government would spend millions of dollars and manipulate the minds of millions of citizens for the worst imaginable "secret experiment" ever, if you think that it is possible your local library is keeping alternate versions of the daily newspaper in stock "just in case" something needs to be erased from history at the drop of a dime, and if you have no problem wrapping your brain around the concept that a soccer mom can outrun half a dozen Secret Service, FBI, and/or CIA agents at any given moment, in spite of the fact that she just found out she has been imagining her own child's existence for nine years, "The Forgotten" is the movie for you. It was not, however, the movie for me.