Jim carrey is Peter Appleton, ascreenwriter in 1950's Hollywood who is riding high with the release of his first motion picture, "sand Pirates of the Sahara". That is, until he is targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee for the suspected communist leanings. Appleton is faced with one option: he must confess to this lie or his short career will be over. Devastated, Appleton gets drunk, takes a long drive up the coast and crashes his car off a bridge. When he awakens, he finds himself in the small town of Lawson with absolutely no memory of who he is. Here he is mistaken for Luke Trimble, a lost hero of World War II, who like most of the town's young men, never returned from the war a decade earlier. His "reapperance" touches the entire town: it inspires Luke's father to re-open the former life and soul of Lawson,"The Majestic" movie theatre and ultimately helps a community long paralysed with grief, to rediscover its lost happiness. Harking back to the legendary Capra-eswque years of filmmaking, The Majestic is heartwarming, inspirational and altogether a fitting tribute to the kind of movies few dare to make today.