History Film / TheForgotten

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Telly gets her son back, same with Ash and her daughter, but her life is forever changed, such as her husband being forgotten about]].

* Ms. Fanservice: in a scene, Telly takes off her clothes before going to bed. We get to see her in black panties.

''The Forgotten'' is a 2004 Suspense/Thriller by Joseph Ruben and starring Creator/JulianneMoore, Dominic West, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Creator/LinusRoache, and Creator/GarySinise. Told that her child, Sam, never existed, Telly Paretta finds physical evidence of Sam's existence and tries desperately to find someone to believe her, helped by Ash Correll, another parent who had apparently lost his daughter. As she unravels the mystery she discovers greater forces at work.

* AmnesiaMissedASpot: [[spoiler:After the aliens finally intimidate Telly into letting them erase all memories she has of Sam, they only erased all mmemories she has of him until the moment he was born -- they forgot to erase the memories of her being pregnant. She immediately gloats about it, and the apparently head alien [[YouHaveFailedMe gets yanked up into the sky immediately after]].]]

* DefiniteArticleTitle: '''''The''' Forgotten''

* MamaBear[=/=]PapaWolf: Ash and Telly both band together to find out what the hell is going on once they have proof that their children are missing and are not hallucinations.

-->'''[[BigBad The Friendly Man]]''': [[spoiler:(''{{Beat}}, OhCrap look appears on his face'') [[WhamLine I need more time...]]]] [''[[KilledMidSentence He is yanked]] by [[GreaterScopeVillain the aliens]]] right through the hangar's ceiling'']

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Ash]].

* MamaBear[=/=]PapaWolf

''The Forgotten'' is a 2004 Suspense/Thriller by Joseph Ruben. Told that her child, Sam, never existed, Telly Paretta finds physical evidence of Sam's existence and tries desperately to find someone to believe her, helped by Ash Correll, another parent who had apparently lost his daughter. As she unravels the mystery she discovers greater forces at work.

* {{Gaslighting}}: A particularly weird and ambitious example.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Telly gets her son back, same with Ash and her daughter, but her life is forever changed, such as her husband being forgotten about]].

* MotherhoodIsSuperior

''The Forgotten'' is a 2004 Suspense/Thriller by Joseph Ruben. Told that her child, Sam, never existed, Telly Paretta [[spoiler: finds physical evidence of Sam's existence and]] tries desperately to find someone to believe her, helped by Ash Correll, another parent who had apparently lost his daughter. As she unravels the mystery she discovers greater forces at work [[spoiler: trying to hide the fact, and that the government is in bed with aliens to cover up abductions and experiments on the human psyche.]]

* CosmicHorrorStory: What the film turns out to be. There are unnamed and unseen beings out there that have the power to abduct people and erase their existence from the world, including from people's memories. Telly and Ash are outright told that the truth is too fantastic for their brains to comprehend and the unseen beings can snatch people right up from where they're standing. The reason they're doing all this? [[spoiler: It's an experiment]].
* TheDeterminator: Telly.

* Gaslighting: A particularly weird and ambitious example.

* MamaBear / PapaWolf

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We really never find out what happens to [[spoiler: Anne Pope, Jim or Dr Muntz. Presumably the last two had their memories reworked to erase the incident but Anne was snatched right up into the air so you never know...]]

''The Forgotten'' is a 2004 Suspense/Thriller by Joseph Ruben. Told that her child, Sam, never existed, Telly Paretta [[spoiler: find physical evidence of Sam's existence and]] tries desperately to find someone to believe her, helped by Ash Correll, another parent who had apparently lost his daughter. As she unravels the mystery she discovers greater forces at work [[spoiler: trying to hide the fact, and that the government is in bed with aliens to cover up abductions and experiments on the human psyche.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Every parent is made to forget that their child ever existed. The clean-up squad missed a few photos.

''The Forgotten'' is a 2004 Suspense/Thriller by Joseph Ruben. Told that her child, Sam, never existed, Telly Paretta find physical evidence of Sam's existence and tries desperately to find someone to believe her, helped by Ash Correll, another parent who had apparently lost his daughter. As she unravels the mystery she discovers greater forces at work trying to hide the fact, and that the government is in bed with aliens to cover up abductions and experiments on the human psyche.