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About Omar Naim
updated: June 28, 2008     
  The Final Cut 2004
GENERAL INFORMATION

directed by - omar naim
screenplay by - omar naim
music by - brian tyler
genre - thriller, sci-fi
rating - PG-13
runtime - 105 min
budget - $10,000,000
world premiere - february 11, 2004 (berlin)
theatrical release - october 15, 2004 (limited -117 screens)
                                    (pushed back from September 24, 2004)
dvd release - march 22, 2005 (region 1)
                         february 09, 2005 (region 4)
filming - june 10, 2003 > july 30, 2003
filming locations - vancouver, bc
production company - lions gate films
                                        cinerenta

  SUMMARY

A Zoë Chip is a chip placed in your brain at birth to record your entire life. When you die, the footage from your life is edited into a "Rememory"-- a film shown at your funeral pieced together by an editor. A toy for the privileged, Zoë Chips are changing the face of human interaction, but there are those who are against this emerging technology, and believe that memories are meant to fade. Alan Hakman is the best "cutter" in the business, his ability to grant the corrupt absolution of the sins of his clients, has put him in high demand. However, his talent for viewing life without emotion has shaped him into a cold distant man and has made him unable to experience life in the first person. He believes he is a "sin eater" and his work provides him with the ability to absolve the dead of their sin. While cutting a Rememory for a high-powered colleague, Alan discovers an image from his childhood that has haunted him his entire life. This discovery leads him on a high intensity search for truth and redemption.

  QUOTES

alan
Will you look at that.

hasan
So how are things between you and --
alan
Delila?
hasan
Yes, yeah?
alan
I messed up in a big way.
hasan
Does she want you?
alan
I need her.
hasan
May I speak frankly with you, Alan?
alan
Oh, please.
hasan
You're a real prick.

jason
This is great man. What's that music you're using, I really dig it.
alan
That's just the opening sequense. The rest needs a little bit more tweeking and clocking. Right now it's clocking in about 1 hour and 40 minutes.
jason
You did the son of a bitch right.

michael
Where's your assistent?
alan
I don't have an assistant.
michael
I know a girl who has some experience in the business and--
alan
I don't work with an assistant. I work alone.

hasan
Alan, Alan. I'm working on a new sorting program and I'd really dig it if you'd take a look at it.
alan
Maybe some other time.
hasan
Yeah, maybe some other time.

alan
The dead mean nothing to me, Mrs. Bannister. I took this job because I respect the living.

delila
Why are you here? You know it doesn't work between us.
alan
I can change.
delila
You can't change. You're a man of marble. Forget it. Forget me.
alan
I still have some of your things. You want me to drop them off?
delila
Keep them as souvenirs
alan
You wanna come by and pick them up?

 MORE QUOTES [-]

fletcher
Strange profession you have, isn't it, Alan?
You take people's lives, make lies out of them.
alan
It's been a long time Fletcher.
fletcher
Eight years
alan
Well, I don't have time to catch up right now.
fletcher
Oh, how can you handle it, Alan. People sleeping and shitting. People steeling from each other. Manipulating each other. The obscenity.
alan
I can't talk. I'm working.

delila
Guillotine. You're like a mortician...or a priest...or a taxidermist - all of them.
alan
Please don't touch the guillotine.
delila
And you wonder why it didn't work. The greater part of your life is off limits to me.
alan
You wanna see what I do? Don't touch.
delila
No touching.
delila
What happened with all the bits in between?
alan
It's a miniature, it's conseized and symetric. That's how the world looks to me. The way I see it.

jennifer
Sometimes things are best forgotten.
alan
Perhaps.

alan
You wanna take a shot too? Everybody else has.
I deserved that one.

fletcher
It's for the greater good, Alan. Your life will mean something. I promise.

alan
I need to speak to you alone.
thelma
Michael, why don't you go down to the store and buy some cigarettes?
michael
We got 8 packs already.
thelma
Well, bring them back then. We don't need so many.

fletcher
Is this why you wanted to meet me here?
alan
I thought it'd be safer this way.

fletcher
Let me ask you something. Why is your name the first on the list of scumbags and lowlives?
alan
Because I forgive people long after they can be punished for their sins.
fletcher
I know what you do. Why do you do it?
alan
You know what a sin eater is? It's part of an ancient tradition. If someone dies, they'd call for a sin eater. Sin eaters were social outcasts, marginals. They'd lay out the body and put bread and salt in the chest, coins up onto the eyes. The sin eater would eat the bread and salt and take the coins in as payment. By doing this, the sin eater absorbs the sins of the deceased. Clearing their souls and allowing them a safe passage into the afterlife. That was their job.
fletcher
And how about the sin eater who bears the burden of all these sins?
alan
Are you worried about my soul, Fletcher?
fletcher
I will have Bannister.
alan
I can't give it to you.
fletcher
You see that man behind me? I don't want to bring him into this conversation, but if you don't work with me I'll have no choice. Alan!

oliver
So, how is it we know each other?
alan
We don't.
oliver
That's the wrong answer, pal.

isabel
Alan...it's not really Mr. Froggies birthday.
It's in a week.

mrs. monroe
Why are they tattooed like that?
alan
I'm not sure.
mrs. monroe
It's so grotesk.

delila
Your phone call got me all worried. I saw the mirror, what happened?
alan
I saw something.

delila
What do you have in this dump?
alan
Not much. In the Kubbards. The kubbard.
delila
This?
alan
It's something I've seen in one of my projects. It seemed interesting.
delila
Ah, what?! This is digusting!
alan
I wanna show you something.
delila
I don't think I wanna see anymore of those.
alan
I made it for you.
delila
What is it?
alan
Some implants have a defect. They can't see the difference between what the eye sees and what the mind sees.
delila
Everytime I think I've had it with you, you show me something amazing.

delila
You fell in love with an image of me. Not the real me.
alan
At first. Now I want you the way you really are.
delila
I can't believe you after what you did.

alan
There'll be nothing I won't know soon.

alan
My job is to let people remember what they want to remember, Fletcher. It fullfilled a human need. I didn't invent the technology.

delila
Oh God! Alan! I'm right here in front of you.
I see nothing has changed.

alan
Maybe I could speak with Isabel.
jennifer
Right now?
alan
That'd be very helpful.
jennifer
You remember what I told you?
isabel
Hello Mr. Hakman.
alan
Mr. Hakman is very formal. Name is Alan.

  ON SET
       
  STILLS
                           
  MAIN CAST
robin williams - alan w. hakman
mira sorvino - delila
jim caviezel - fletcher
thom bishops - hasan
casey dubois - alan (age 9)
stephanie romanov - jennifer bannister
mimi kuzyk - thelma
genevieve buechner - isabel
christopher britton - jason monroe
spencer achtymichuk - jason (age 6)
sarah deakins - eliza monroe
darren hird - danny monroe
don ackerman - tattooed man
darren shahlavi - karim
noah beggs - protester
leanne adachi - nathalie
michael andaluz - rom
liam ranger - louis hunt (age 9)
brendan fletcher - michael
erin wright - beaten woman
omar naim - man at the bar
  TAGLINES

Every moment of your life recorded. Would you live it differently?

Memories weren't meant to be movies.

In the end, he sees everything.

In the dark recesses of another man's life
hides a memory worth killing for
and a secret that can never be erased

  INTERNATIONAL RELEASE DATES
australia - november 11, 2004
thailand - november 18, 2004
hong kong - november 25, 2004
turkey - december 31, 2004
spain - january 27, 2005
france - february 23, 2005
poland - february 25, 2005
philippines - march 09, 2005
argentina - march 24, 2005
  AVAILABILITY

this title is available on:

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CD
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  DVD EXTRA FEATURES

- Commentary with director Omar Naim
- Making of production
- Design featurette
- Special effects featurette
- Deleted scene
- Behind the scenes/storyboard comparison

  BOX OFFICE DETAILS

budget - $10,000,000
gross - $551,281 (us)
opening weekend - $226,296 (117 theaters)
widest release - 117 theaters
in release - 28 days / 4 weeks
closing date - november 11, 2004

  TRAILER & CLIPS

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  EXTRA INFO

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