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Clean Slate, a frivolous crime caper predicated on a gimmicky plot contrivance pre-dating Christopher Nolan's Memento, opens wide nationally. Written by Robert King, and directed by Mick Jackson (LA Story, The Bodyguard), Dana Carvey stars as a goofy, soft-boiled private eye suffering from a form of amnesia that renders him unable to remember anything from the previous day. A local gangster facing indictment for murder (Michael Gambon) and his fearing-for-her-life ex-moll (Valeria Golino) mirthlessly compound his perterbation. The film's lacklustre box-office fast-tracks Carvey's retreat into television sit-coms.
