Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma | |
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Director: | Denis Langlois |
Producer: | Bertrand Lachance Denis Langlois |
Starring: | Dusan Dukic Karyne Lemieux Louise Laprade Norman Helms |
Music: | Peter Xirogiannis |
Cinematography: | Larry Lynn |
Editing: | Denis Langlois |
Studio: | Castor & Pollux |
Distributor: | K Films Amérique TLA Releasing |
Runtime: | 90 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French English |
Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma (French: Amnésie, l'énigme James Brighton) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Langlois and released in 2005.[1] The film dramatizes the true story of "James Brighton", a gay "mystery man" suffering from dissociative amnesia who was found naked behind a dumpster in Montreal in 1998,[2] and was eventually confirmed as Matthew Honeycutt, a young heterosexual man from LaFollette, Tennessee, who was attempting to escape from his fundamentalist Christian family.[3]
The film stars Dusan Dukic as Brighton/Honeycutt; Karyne Lemieux as Sylvie, a young woman who engages in trying to help solve the mystery of Brighton's identity; Louise Laprade as psychiatrist Geneviève Marler; and Norman Helms as Félix, a man who takes Brighton in as a house guest before his real identity is confirmed.[4]
The film premiered on September 26, 2005, at Montreal's Cinema Quartier Latin, as a fundraising benefit gala for Gay Line/Gai Écoute, the city's helpline for LGBT people.[1]
The film was cowinner with Tori Foster's documentary film 533 Statements of the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2006 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[5]