25 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND 2000

LOVE. FIGHT. REPEAT.

EXPECTATION Philip K. Dick via Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman.

OMG A heartbroken man (Jim Carrey) seeking to erase the memory of his lover (Kate Winslet) in Gondry’s bittersweet paean to failed romance sucker-punched audiences with its loopy whimsy, in-camera SFX and the leads’ unexpectedly incendiary chemistry. Mindbending.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT Would we have got Inception without Eternal Sunshine?

“Meet me in Montauk...”

The Alexander Pope poem the title is taken from was also used in Inside John Malkovich.