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Jul 2023
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

ANDREW HEATON
About this episode
Characters can selectively wipe memories in Charlie Kaufman's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," but in doing so they lose part of themselves.
 
Chloe Effron and Nick Sperdute join to discuss this trippy... romcom?
 
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