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<em>Unforgettable</em> Is the Opposite of Its Title

The female-stalker movie starring Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl is just going through the motions.
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Among the less-noted cardinal rules of cinema is that any movie that takes the title will prove to be anything but. Do you remember the 1996 , in which Ray Liotta tried to solve his wife’s murder with the help of a memory-enhancement drug? Of course you don’t. I doubt even Liotta does. How about the 1997 romance starring Faith Roberts? Or, and I certainly don’t recall any of them. A TV police procedural by the same name proved unmemorable enough that CBS and A&E it three times between them.

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