BLANK SLATE kinda intrigued me for years because it's among Eric Stoltz's most recent projects and since I hope to finish all his films, last March I finally saw it and while I didn't hated it that much I could see why it's a failed TV pilot (in other words, it could have generated a successful TV show but it was never picked up).
Anne Huston (Lisa Brenner) is an amnesiac that is sentenced to death row for a murder that she can't remember to having committed. However, just a few minutes before her execution Agent Miles McAvoy (Clancy Brown) arrives and gives Anne a second chance to be recruited in the secret experimental unit in the FBI's unsolved crimes division and have the final memories of murder victims implanted in her own brain. Anne is often accompanied by Sean Sullivan (Stoltz) but as she has to do an important assignment she is pursued by her own memories and all becomes difficult for her.
The idea was great and the acting nice by all. But I think that the reasons why it was never picked up as a TV show is because the plot was in some points hard to believe (like when Sullivan is first seen having a fight dressed like a hobo and after 2 minutes he is clean and dressed nicely, or when Anne's memories come to her mind while she is at work). But seen as just a TV movie it's entertaining but nothing more.
Anne Huston (Lisa Brenner) is an amnesiac that is sentenced to death row for a murder that she can't remember to having committed. However, just a few minutes before her execution Agent Miles McAvoy (Clancy Brown) arrives and gives Anne a second chance to be recruited in the secret experimental unit in the FBI's unsolved crimes division and have the final memories of murder victims implanted in her own brain. Anne is often accompanied by Sean Sullivan (Stoltz) but as she has to do an important assignment she is pursued by her own memories and all becomes difficult for her.
The idea was great and the acting nice by all. But I think that the reasons why it was never picked up as a TV show is because the plot was in some points hard to believe (like when Sullivan is first seen having a fight dressed like a hobo and after 2 minutes he is clean and dressed nicely, or when Anne's memories come to her mind while she is at work). But seen as just a TV movie it's entertaining but nothing more.