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Amnesia Minor 
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See
Jane Run (1995) (TV Film) |
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In a
supermarket a woman forgets who she is. Instead of |
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going to the
police she books into a hotel. She has no |
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identification on her only cash. When she takes off her coat
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she is
surprised to find her dress is covered in blood (hence |
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in the
script's terms why she didn't go to police). After |
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cleaning
herself and buying new clothes she goes to police |
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where she
gets a medical examination. The doctor tells her |
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she has
acute non-psychotic syndrome, a made-up term if I |
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ever heard
one. He explains this results from too much |
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stress and
prescribes her tranquillisers. Suddenly a man |
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turns up
claiming to be her husband. He is chief of paedriatic |
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surgery. He
says she was on her way to San Diego to see |
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her brother.
He takes her home and she is known to their |
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neighbour
(the neighbour isn't too friendly since it turns out |
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she thought
the woman had had an affair with her husband). |
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The husband
hires a woman to 'babysit' her and it is clear she is being
manipulated. She later discovers the pills her |
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husband has
prescribed are dangerous. |
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The
situation becomes more suspicious with a few red |
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herrings
until she discovers her daughter is the victim of |
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sexual abuse
(a very badly handled episode). The abuser |
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turns out to
be the father and he's done it before to the |
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Overall
riddled with cliches and a sense of unreality where the |
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amnesia is
simply a plot device. |
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Notes
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