Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.
A man pays to have an ex-girlfriend deleted from his memory, then spends the procedure trying to hide her somewhere the machine can't reach.
- Director
- Michel Gondry
- Signature
- Drama · Emotional · Romance
- Worldwide
- $72M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
Spoiler-free. Read the analysis below for the full argument.
A man pays to have an ex-girlfriend deleted from his memory, then spends the procedure trying to hide her somewhere the machine can't reach.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind appears in 5 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Best Romance Movies Ranked #1
Ranked #1 because the rare romance that argues the pain is part of the point.
Love remembered backwards, one erased room at a time.
- Romance Movies Ranked #1
Ranked #1 because rated 9.2 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest romance titles in the catalogue.
A man pays to have an ex-girlfriend deleted from his memory, then spends the procedure trying to hide her somewhere the machine can't reach.
- Hidden Sci-Fi Gems Ranked #4
Ranked #4 because sold as a quirky romance; it is one of the great science-fiction premises of the century.
A break-up filmed from inside the memory being deleted.
- Sci-Fi Movies Ranked #7
Ranked #7 because rated 9.2 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest sci-fi titles in the catalogue.
A man pays to have an ex-girlfriend deleted from his memory, then spends the procedure trying to hide her somewhere the machine can't reach.
- Drama Movies Ranked #10
Ranked #10 because rated 9.2 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest drama titles in the catalogue.
A man pays to have an ex-girlfriend deleted from his memory, then spends the procedure trying to hide her somewhere the machine can't reach.
The record
Awards
2 wins · 3 nominations
Academy Awards
1 win · 2 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Actress
Saturn Awards
1 win
- WinnerSaturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerEuropean Film Award for Best Non-European Film
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind returned 3.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $20M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $72M
- Release date
- Mar 19, 2004
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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