A High School hockey player suffers a traumatic brain injury, and must deal with his injury, as well as the thieves manipulating him to their advantage.    

 Hockey superstar Chris Pratt suffers a traumatic brain injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident.  The damage to his brain leaves Chris with anterograde amnesia and difficulty sequencing simple tasks.  He struggles to maintain his independence from his family, and relies on his roommate Lewis to help him get by.  Chris’s injury and job as the bank’s custodian make him a prime target for conman and thief, Gary Spargo.  Gary gains Chris’s trust and involves him in his plot to rob the bank.  Chris must overcome the deficits imposed on him by his injury to stop the robbery and protect those he loves.


Neuropsychological Review 
Cory Czuczman, Dayna Reber, & Tim Daly    

The Lookout starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a film depicting a young man’s life after suffering a traumatic brain injury. This critique will focus on Joseph Gordon-Levitt's portrayal of a young man living with the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury. The movie takes place... 

The pain of a failing relationship leads two people to erase each other from their memories. 

Joel and Clementine are polar opposites, but seem to be destined to be together.  Almost a year after they first met, their loving relationship has become a series of arguments and constant bickering.  Joel attempts to ameliorate the situation, but comes to find Clementine completely oblivious as to who he is.  He soon finds out that she has had him completely erased from her memory.  The shock and hurt of this leads Joel to do the same.  However, through the process of removing the memories, Joel realizes how valuable their relationship really is.

Neuropsychological Review
The Emotional Core of Memory
Jessica A. Zamzow

Memories can evoke a whole host of feelings including joy, pleasure, fear or grief.  But memories are unstable during recall and can be manipulated, disrupted, or even strengthened in a process... 

 A young Russian princess loses her true identity and gradually regains it as reminders of her past emerge. 


The Russian princess Anastasia, loses her family to the revolution then loses her identity after falling from a train and hitting her head while escaping with her grandmother. 10 years later, she leaves the orphanage to embark on a quest to find her identity and family. Although con men and evil characters try to take advantage of her, tokens, songs and memories from her past gradually emerge to jog her memory and reunite her with her grandmother and reveal her true identity. 

A new bride suffers retrograde amnesia after a traumatic brain injury and loses the memory of ever having met her husband in this romantic drama based on actual events.

Paige suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that results in retrograde amnesia. She awakens in a hospital room having lost several years of her life, and the memory of ever having met Leo and marrying him. Leo attempts to remind Paige of their relationship and reclaim their life prior to the car accident. Although Paige never regains her memory, she discovers facts of her past that lead her back to her life prior to the accident. The movie is based on the actual story of Kim and Krickett Carpenter.

Neuropsychological Review
Ashley McIntyre, Lona Wang, Melanie Musso, & Hela Saidi with Mary Spiers

When considering whether The Vow accurately portrays a case of retrograde amnesia, the answer is both yes and no.  This movie is based on real-life events, (the story of Krickett Carpenter) so the loss of memory for events prior to a brain injury (i.e. retrograde amnesia), even for a long period of time, can happen.  However...