Gone But Not Forgotten (2005)

★ 4.9 2h 52m IMDb
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An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has entered a web of duplicity revenge & multiple murder.

Gone But Not Forgotten

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Cast

Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields as Betsy Tannenbaum Age 60 · New City, New York, USA Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress, author and model. Some of her better known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan...
Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips as Alan Page Age 64 · Subic Bay Naval Base, Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines Lou Diamond Phillips is an American film, television, and stage actor as well as director and writer. His breakthrough role came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the film La Bamba. His other best...
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn as Martin Darius Age 87 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1939) is an American actor. His roles have included Bill Lester in She Came to the Valley (1979), Pfc Glenn Kelly in Nashville (1975), Wes Hightower in Urban Cow...
Marilu Henner
Marilu Henner as Nancy Gordon Age 74 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Mary Lucy Denise Henner (born April 6, 1952), known professionally as Marilu Henner, is an American actress, producer, and New York Times best-selling author best-known for her role as Elaine O'Connor...
William Atherton
William Atherton as Sen. Ray Colby Age 78 · Orange, Connecticut, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Atherton Knight (born July 30, 1947) is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghos...
Robin Riker
Robin Riker as Nora Sloane / Samantha Reardon Age 73 · New York City, New York, USA Robin Riker is an American actress and author. She made her big screen debut in the 1980 horror film Alligator and later went to star in the Showtime comedy series Brothers. Riker had starring roles i...

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tmdb76622195 3/10 Jan 15, 2024
This two-part television film was based on a Phillip Margolin novel, which has been deemed "better than this movie" in almost every film review I read. In New York state, Peter Lake's (Scott Glenn) wife and young daughter are murdered in a very jumbled opening half hour to the film. Fast forward ten years later, and Lake is now known as Martin Darius, a millionaire developer in Sacramento. Copycat crimes to the New York slayings pop up again, and women's rights lawyer Betsy (Brooke Shields) is now Darius' defense attorney, up against prosecutor Alan (Lou Diamond Phillips). What follows is a two hour thriller dragged out to almost three hours as women are kidnapped and killed, and THIS time, Darius swears he's innocent.

The film takes the old adage "show, don't tell" and turns it on its head. A good hour of screen time, and many characters, could have been dropped by telling, and NOT showing. Darius is already evil enough but when his wife Lisa (Alla Korot) recalls his assault of her, do we really need to see it, too? Lake's wife and daughter are shown being murdered twice, in case we didn't remember it happening the first time around. The name cast tries, Phillips and Glenn come off best (although Phillips delivers more lines into a cell phone than to a live character), but the plot lurches along without a steady pace or suspense. Henner and Shields try, but they're both in over their heads. Watch for the scene at a New York suspect's house- I swear Henner tries an accent out of nowhere, and it never occurs again. The film is so padded, I forgot Morton and Atherton were in this until the second half of the film. I'm not sure the novel is as silly as the plot, and don't look up the film's credits online or else a big plot twist will be ruined. The novel's plot might make for a challenging screenwriting exercise. This should have been tightened up, recast, and written with two strong female leads instead of what we get- a semi-edgy basic cable "event." I'll gladly forget "Gone But Not Forgotten."

-Contains strong physical violence, gun violence, some sexual violence, gore, mild profanity, brief sexual content, sexual references, adult situations, drug abuse, alcohol and tobacco use

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