The Majestic is a 2001 American drama film, directed by Frank Darabont and starring Jim Carrey and Martin Landau . Written by Michael Sloane, the film features a supporting cast of Laurie Holden, James Whitmore , Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn and Hal Holbrook. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 21, 2001.

Plot

The film is set in the United States during the early 1950s. Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) is an up-and-coming young screenwriter working on B-Movies who hopes to work his way onto the A list. Unfortunately, he is accused of being a Communist, like the real world accusations of the Hollywood blacklist. In 1945, he had attended a meeting for a antiwar in college known as the "Bread Instead of Bullets" club, a meeting which he reveals that he attended for a girl. In an instant, his new film (which he hopes will get him onto the "A" movies) is pushed back for a few months, the credit is given to someone else and his contract gets dropped.

His career in ruins, he gets drunk at a seaside bar and has a car accident while trying to avoid hitting an opossum on a bridge. When he wakes up, his memory lost (probably because of what the DSM-IV terms as a Dissociative Fugue), he is in a small town called Lawson. The townsfolk believe him to be Luke Trimble, one of the town boys killed in World War II 9½ years before, and embrace him as a symbol of hope. "Luke" is at first mildly hesitant to embrace this life but he eventually settles in to "his old life", and with his "father" Harry (Martin Landau) and his "girlfriend" Adele (Laurie Holden), starts to restore the "Majestic" theater, an old movie house that had been closed because of post-war hard times.