The second feature from director
Michel Gondry (
Human Nature) finds the filmmaker reteaming with screenwriter
Charlie Kaufman for this off-the-wall romantic comedy.
Jim Carrey stars as Joel Barish, a man who is informed that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (
Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their relationship erased from her brain via an experimental procedure performed by Dr. Mierzwiak (
Tom Wilkinson). Not to be outdone, Joel decides to have the same procedure done to himself. As Mierzwiak's bumbling underlings Stan (
Mark Ruffalo) and Patrick (
Elijah Wood) perform the operation on Joel -- over the course of an evening, in his apartment -- Joel struggles in his own mind to save the memories of Clementine from being deleted.
Kirsten Dunst,
David Cross, and
Jane Adams also star. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide