Clean Slate

1994
12
1h 47m

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5.7/10

4.3K

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Valeria Golino and Dana Carvey in Clean Slate (1994)

A private eye who suffers total amnesia every twenty-four hours is deeply entangled in a complicated murder and theft case.

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A private eye who suffers total amnesia every twenty-four hours is deeply entangled in a complicated murder and theft case.A private eye who suffers total amnesia every twenty-four hours is deeply entangled in a complicated murder and theft case.A private eye who suffers total amnesia every twenty-four hours is deeply entangled in a complicated murder and theft case.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

4.3K

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Trivia
This was the first film that Dana Carvey starred in after leaving Saturday Night Live in the Spring of 1993. Carvey had been on the show for seven years and left the show to pursue a film career and other opportunities.

Goofs
Pogue's dog, Baby, has an eye-patch over his right eye. It is stated that as a result, the dog has a depth perception problem. While this could be true, the problem manifests itself not as depth perception, but in moving towards things to the left of where they actually are.

Quotes
Maurice L. Pogue: It's so nice seeing all your faces here: John and Susan and Mary and Fred and Ethel, Little Ricky

Alternate versions
The American TV version deleted a large section between Pogue's visit to the fashion show and his dictating to his tape recorder about the coin being with "Baby". In addition to eliminating the entire "guest speaker" scene, one of the funniest in the movie, this is also the part where Pogue learns tha the coin is with Baby. Thus, the viewer is left out of a key clue in this mystery!

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Crooklyn/Clean Slate/The Crow/Babyfever/Sunday's Children (1994)

Soundtracks
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Words by Gus Kahn (as G. Kahn)
Music by Walter Donaldson (as W. Donaldson)
Performed by Doug Legacy

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Featured review

5/10

Best Character In The Film Was The Dog

Okay, But Not Memorable (Pun Intended) I didn't find this as humorous as I had hoped to find after Carvey's hit "Wayne World" farces. The high, in a dark humor-ish vein, was the dog in the film. The mutt who had a depth perception problem and kept running into things, was easily the best character in the movie.

The premise was fine: a private detective (Dana Carvey playing "Maurice Pogue") with short term memory loss, meaning the following day he keeps forgetting what happened the previous 24 hours. Add a femme fatale and some wild gangsters, and this film should have been hilarious....but it wasn't. The running gags with Pogue faking things all the time because of the memory problems is what became annoying.

Part of the problem might have been casting. Carvey looks like anything but a hard-boiled detective. Also, although I did laugh at some things, we have a modern-day comedy more needless sexual innuendos, sado-masochism offered and the like. Why? If you have a good comedian and a good story, you don't need that garbage. I think most Carvey fans were disappointed with this film.