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Memory Loss in The Movies

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From "Memento" to "The Hangover," all the ways in which movies forget.

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Posted June 01st, 2009, 8:06 AM by Alison Willmore

From the timeline-warping tricks of “Memento” to the bleary-eyed morning-after of this week’s “The Hangover,” memory loss remains a treasured (and sometimes abused) movie gimmick. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at some of our favorite clichés of on-screen amnesia, as well as the best ways memory loss has been used to shake things up and put a new twist on plot and characters.

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