Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma
Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma (French: Amnésie, l'énigme James Brighton) is a Canadian drama film released in 2005 and directed by Denis Langlois. The 90-minute movie tells the true story of James Brighton, a gay man with dissociative amnesia who was found naked behind a Montreal dumpster in 1998. He was later identified as Matthew Honeycutt, a young heterosexual man from LaFollette, Tennessee, who was trying to escape his strict Christian family.
The cast includes Dusan Dukic as Brighton/Honeycutt, Karyne Lemieux as Sylvie, a woman who helps solve the mystery, Louise Laprade as psychiatrist Geneviève Marler, and Norman Helms as Félix, who shelter Brighton before his identity is confirmed.
The film premiered on September 26, 2005, at Montreal’s Cinema Quartier Latin as a fundraiser for LGBT helpline Gay Line/Gai Écoute. It shared the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2006 Inside Out Film and Video Festival with Tori Foster’s 533 Statements.
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