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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, not so much.]]

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* TomatoInTheMirror Dan Merrick survives a car accident with amnesia. Along the way, he discovers that his wife Judith was having an affair. She explains that she didn't say anything because she didn't want him to remember killing her lover Jack. When Dan finds Jack's corpse, it's actually his own face. It turns out that ''he'' is Jack, and the dead man is Dan. He looks like Dan now because after the car accident, the doctors repaired his face to look like the photos of Merrick that they believed he was.

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* TomatoInTheMirror TomatoInTheMirror: Dan Merrick survives a car accident with amnesia. Along the way, he discovers that his wife Judith was having an affair. She explains that she didn't say anything because she didn't want him to remember killing her lover Jack. When Dan finds Jack's corpse, it's actually his own face. It turns out that ''he'' is Jack, and the dead man is Dan. He looks like Dan now because after the car accident, the doctors repaired his face to look like the photos of Merrick that they believed he was.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} A love he can't forget. A murder he can't remember]].]]A 1991 American psychological thriller written and directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen that follows an amnesiac (Creator/TomBerenger) rediscovering his past after being in an accident.

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1991 American psychological thriller written and directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen that follows an amnesiac (Creator/TomBerenger) rediscovering his past after being in an accident.



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* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler: Judith Merrick]]



* SurgicalImpersonation: The amnesiac variant. Merrick wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, not so much.]]

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* SurgicalImpersonation: The amnesiac variant. Dan Merrick wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.
* TomatoInTheMirror Dan Merrick survives a car accident with amnesia. Along the way, he discovers that his wife Judith was having an affair. She explains that she didn't say anything because she didn't want him to remember killing her lover Jack. When Dan finds Jack's corpse, it's actually his own face. It turns out that ''he'' is Jack, and the dead man is Dan. He looks like Dan now because after the car accident, the doctors repaired his face to look like the photos of Merrick that they believed he was.
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TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Judith [[spoiler:Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, not so much.]]]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, not so much.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: {{Jerkass}} Dan found out his wife Judith was cheating on him with Jack.]]

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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, not so much.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: {{Jerkass}} Dan found out his wife Judith was cheating on him with Jack.
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* EvilIsSexy: [[Judith Merrick]]

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* EvilIsSexy: [[Judith [[spoiler: Judith Merrick]]



* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, just so much.]]

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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, just not so much.]]
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* EvilIsSexy: [[Judith Merrick]]



* SurgicalImpersonation: The amnesiac variant. Merrick wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.

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* SurgicalImpersonation: The amnesiac variant. Merrick wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.is.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Judith tries this with Jack in the climax. This time Jack gets out of the car in time... Judith, just so much.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: {{Jerkass}} Dan found out his wife Judith was cheating on him with Jack.]]

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A 1991 American psychological thriller written and directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen that follows an amnesiac (Creator/TomBerenger) rediscovering his past after being in an accident.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}}
A love he can't forget. A murder he can't remember]].]]A 1991 American psychological thriller written and directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen that follows an amnesiac (Creator/TomBerenger) rediscovering his past after being in an accident.



* SurgicalImpersonation: The amnesiac variant. Merrick wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.
* {{Tagline}}: "A love he can't forget. A murder he can't remember".

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* SurgicalImpersonation: The amnesiac variant. Merrick wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.
* {{Tagline}}: "A love he can't forget. A murder he can't remember".
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A 1991 American psychological thriller written and directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen that follows an amnesiac (Creator/DonMerrick) rediscovering his past after being in an accident.

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A 1991 American psychological thriller written and directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen that follows an amnesiac (Creator/DonMerrick) (Creator/TomBerenger) rediscovering his past after being in an accident.
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A 1991 American psychological thriller written and directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen that follows an amnesiac (Creator/DonMerrick) rediscovering his past after being in an accident.

The movie also stars Creator/GretaScacchi, Creator/BobHoskins, Creator/JoanneWhalley, Creator/CorbinBernsen, Creator/KellyeNakahara, Creator/TheodoreBikel, Creator/ScottGetlin, and Creator/JudiMaddison.

It was released on October 11, 1991.

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!Tropes for the film:
* DiscoveringYourOwnDeadBody: When Dan Merrick dredges up the preserved corpse of Jack Stanton, he discovers that its face looks exactly like his. He then realizes that he's not Dan Merrick at all, but Jack Stanton, who's suffered LaserGuidedAmnesia and underwent MagicPlasticSurgery after a car wreck.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Richard Neely's novel ''The The Plastic Nightmare''.
* OneWordTitle: '''Shattered'''.
* SurgicalImpersonation: The amnesiac variant. Merrick wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.
* {{Tagline}}: "A love he can't forget. A murder he can't remember".

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