Shattered (1991)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Dan Merrick	Tom Berenger
Judith Merrick	Greta Scacchi
Gus Klein	Bob Hoskins	½
Jenny Scott	Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
Jeb Scott	Corbin Bernsen	½

Review

The late Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) wrote and directed this fittingly campy psychological thriller starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi and a wonderful Bob Hoskins. Berenger plays a man suffering from psychogenic amnesia after a harrowing car accident. He barely survives, but only after a number of (plastic) operations. His quest to uncover what happened in the run-up to the accident shares quite a few similarities with Christopher Nolan’s now classic Memento, except that Shattered never strays too far from its genre-obligations. The film almost nails that delicate balance between the audacious and the authentic. Had Scacchi played it more straight in her role as the wife, it might have succeeded. Hoskins elevates a number of otherwise run-of-the-mill segments with his spirited performance. Also with Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Corbin Bernsen in supporting roles as Berenger and Scacchi's friends.