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Name: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Director: Michel Gondry
Genre: drama, romance, science-fiction
Released: 2004
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Rating: 8.3

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has an iRankMovies score of 86.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.

Release:2004

Runtime:1h 48m

Country:United States

Director:Michel Gondry

Language:English

Genre

DramaRomanceScience Fiction

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Keywords

New York CityRegretJealousyDeja VuAmnesiaDreamsOperationRelationship Problems

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.3/10· 1.2M votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic89%

TMDb8.092/10· 16K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.3/10 on IMDb and 89/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Cast of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jim Carrey
as Joel Barish
Kate Winslet
as Clementine Kruczynski
Kirsten Dunst
as Mary
Mark Ruffalo
as Stan
Elijah Wood
as Patrick
Tom Wilkinson
as Dr. Mierzwiak
Jane Adams
as Carrie
David Cross
as Rob
Deirdre O'Connell
as Hollis
Thomas Jay Ryan
as Frank
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Ryan Whitney
as Young Joel
Lola Daehler
as Young Clementine

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind facts

Budget: $20M
Box office: $72.3M

Our take on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Gondry and Kaufman's 2004 romance follows a heartbroken man who undergoes a procedure to erase his ex-girlfriend from his memory — only to fight to keep her as the memories dissolve. Inventive, melancholy and achingly true about love and loss, it bends sci-fi into deep feeling. If its dreamlike structure and emotional honesty moved you, seek out cerebral romances and mind-bending dramas that ask whether love is worth the pain it leaves behind.

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