In other words, there is a lot more genre overlapping in Clean Slate, with Carvey essentially undergoing a couple of different character transformations to make all of the contrasting material stick together.
Clean Slate is sort of a goofy neo-noirish thriller that really feels most comfortable when it functions as a romantic comedy.
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This of course turns out to be a very serious challenge because the important trial is just days away and each morning he has to rebuild his life from scratch.ĭirector Mick Jackson completed Clean Slate a year after Harold Ramis' Groundhog Day so obviously it is impossible not to draw at least some comparisons between the two, but the truth is that they are very different films. Initially Maurice decides to play it safe and basically do what he is asked because he has absolutely no idea who are the people that he is dealing with, but when his actions create an even bigger mess he begins looking for a permanent solution to his troubles. The only way he can reconstruct his past is by listening to a small tape recorder that he uses as his permanent memory bank - he keeps recording himself and updating his life story so that on the following morning he can resume being Maurice.īut the recovery system begins to crumble when Maurice reconnects with a beautiful model (Valeria Golino, Rain Man) with a murky past, and then some very persistent high-roller named Cornell (Michael Gambon, Layer Cake) and his bodyguards come knocking on his door demanding that he agrees not to testify in an upcoming trial. Each night when he goes to sleep, Maurice's brain hits the reset button in the back of his head and in the morning he wakes up without any memories. In fact, I would argue that with a few minor improvements it probably would have been excellent.ĭana Carvey plays an LA-based private detective named Maurice Pogue who suffers from some very rare form of amnesia. It is possible that my initial expectations of Clean Slate might have been a bit too low, but the film still turned out to be unusually good. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
The only bonus feature on the disc is an original trailer for the film. Mick Jackson's "Clean Slate" (1994) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of independent distributors Olive Films.
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