

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.
Acting
Ford's physical transformation—he actually learned to walk again for this.
Direction
Nichols finds warmth without sentimentality in recovery scenes.
Writing
J.J. Abrams' script dares to make its protagonist genuinely unlikable first.

Director
Mike Nichols
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Harrison Ford spent weeks at a brain injury rehabilitation center learning to move and speak like a recovering patient—method acting before it was memeable.
This was J.J. Abrams' first produced screenplay, written at 24. The 'amnesia as moral reset' premise became a 90s template, though few matched its uncomfortable honesty about class privilege.