Clean Slate is a 1994 American comedy film, directed by Mick Jackson. The film stars Dana Carvey as a private investigator who is the key witness in a murder case. After suffering a head injury however, he has developed a rare form of amnesia that causes him to forget anything that's happened to him the previous day. This makes it hard for him to know who to trust, or if he even knows them at all. Valeria Golino, Michael Gambon, James Earl Jones,...
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Clean Slate is a 1994 American comedy film, directed by Mick Jackson. The film stars Dana Carvey as a private investigator who is the key witness in a murder case. After suffering a head injury however, he has developed a rare form of amnesia that causes him to forget anything that's happened to him the previous day. This makes it hard for him to know who to trust, or if he even knows them at all. Valeria Golino, Michael Gambon, James Earl Jones, and Kevin Pollak co-star.
On a Monday morning, Maurice Pogue (Carvey) finds a tape recording which reveals that he has Korsakoff's syndrome, a form of amnesia that prevents him from remembering anything that happened to him the day before. He realizes that he recorded the message to himself the previous night, a system he's worked out to keep himself in the know. He also learns from the recording that he's a private investigator and obtained the condition after being injured during a case. The tape tells Pogue not to reveal his condition to...
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