ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo
Focus Features; Directed by Michel Gondry
Rated R; 108 minutes; 2004
 
In another mind-bending screenplay from Charlie (“ADAPTATION”) Kaufman, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet play a couple who have a terrible breakup. Joel (Carrey) can't take the loss and undergoes an experimental treatment which erases harsh memories from the human brain.  In doing so he finds that he really does want to remember Clementine (Winslet) no matter how painful it might be.