It grossed $548,039 domestically and $3,070,786 internationally. The Final Cut premiered October 15, 2004.
In the last scene, Fletcher loads Hakman's memories into a viewer and promises to use them for the greater good. After chasing Hakman through the graveyard, he hesitates and seems willing to let Hakman go however, Fletcher's associate kills Hakman. Hakman, relieved, visits Hunt's grave but is confronted again by Fletcher, who has learned about Hakman's implant. The resulting memories show Hakman attempted to dissuade Louis from crossing the plank, and stepping in red paint, not blood.
They agree, but admonish him that he can never cut memories again a cutter with an implant is a violation of the "Cutter's code". Hakman asks his colleagues to recover live footage from his own implant, a potentially deadly process. Hakman tells Bannister's wife that the erased footage was lost in an accident, and she feigns disappointment, content to let dirty secrets stay hidden. She accuses him of voyeurism and angrily destroys his memory viewer, which results in Bannister's files also being damaged.įletcher and his associate finally break in, but they find nothing. When he returns to find his apartment in disarray, he assumes that Fletcher has broken in instead, Delila confronts him, having found memory tapes that document her prior relationship. He leaves her alone as he seeks help from anti-implant protestors, who have discovered a way to block the implant through specialized body modification. At his apartment, he shows her the equipment that he uses to view memories, and he demonstrates surreal footage from a defective implant. In his distress, Hakman turns to his lover, Delila ( Mira Sorvino). Instead, Hakman finds a file on himself, which he is surprised to find documents his parents' purchase of an implant for him. Hoping that Hunt had an implant, Hakman organizes a break-in at EYE Tech, but they have no record of Hunt. Bannister's wife Jennifer ( Stephanie Romanov) is dismissive, but Isabel reveals that the man, recently dead of a car crash, was a teacher named Louis Hunt. Excited, he sets up a meeting with Bannister's family to find out more information.
He eventually comes upon a person that he is convinced must be his childhood friend Louis. Hakman wordlessly deletes it and presses on. Hakman again refuses, and, worried for his safety, uses his knowledge from memory tapes to shake down a shady criminal for a pistol.Īs Hakman works through Bannister's memories, he encounters a scene that implies that Bannister was molesting his daughter, Isabel ( Genevieve Buechner). In a later meeting, Fletcher demands the memory recordings so that he can use Bannister, who he suspects was a pedophile, as a scandal to shut down EYE Tech, the implant manufacturer. Fletcher offers him $500,000 for the memories of his latest client, wealthy businessman Charles Bannister ( Michael St. When Fletcher ( Jim Caviezel), a former cutter, confronts him at a funeral, Hakman describes himself as a sin-eater, who brings redemption to the immoral. Years later, the adult Hakman ( Robin Williams) has become a skilled cutter who specializes in editing the memories of controversial people into hagiographies. Later that day, he leaves the city with his parents. Hakman flees the scene and tells no one what had happened. Hakman races to the ground and panics when he steps in what he thinks is Louis' blood. Goaded by Hakman, Louis also attempts to cross the plank, but he loses his confidence and falls. Louis reluctantly joins Hakman in exploring an abandoned factory, and Hakman crosses a wooden plank suspended high above the ground. While visiting a city with his parents, he meets another boy, Louis ( Liam Ranger), and the two bond as they play together. The film opens with Alan Hakman as a child ( Casey Dubois).
Their code forbids them to mix footage from implants, to have the requisite implant, or to sell memories. A brief introduction describes "cutters", who edit the collected memories of the recently dead into feature-length memorials that are viewed by loved ones at funerals.