The screenplay of Remember is totally unbelievable from the beginning to it's preposterous ending. It attempts to tell an implausible, difficult to believe, far-fetched story of Zev Guttman (Christopher Plummer), a 90-year-old struggling with memory loss who is living out his final years in a retirement home.
A week following the death of his wife Ruth, he gets a package from his close friend Max (Martin Landau), (another wheel chair bound old man in the same home) containing a stack of money and a letter detailing a shocking plan.
The letter builds on the fact that both Zev and Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, and the same sadistic guard was responsible for the death of both their families . . . a guard who, immediately after the war, escaped Germany, evaded the authorities, the Weisenthal Center investgations, and has been living in the U.S. under an assumed identity. Max is in full command of his mental faculties and with his guidance, Zev (who has partial dementia) will embark on a cross-continental road-trip to bring justice once and for all to the man who destroyed both their lives.
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