Forget and Forgive (film)

Left for dead after a brutal interrogation apparently gone wrong, vice detective Anna Walker (Elisabeth Röhm) awakes in the hospital with no memory of who she is. She recognizes no-one; not her husband Tate (Neil Napier), her daughter Emily (Vivien Endicott-Douglas), nor Derek (Tygh Runyan), her partner on the police force, who tells her most of the rest of the force is occupied with solving the recent murder of the mayor, her own assault being less of a priority. On her return home Anna discovers that hers is not a happy family: her relationship with Emily was extremely strained; Anna herself was on the verge of leaving Tate. She has other problems brewing: whoever assaulted her may want to finish the job, if her memory returns. A visit from Internal Affairs suggests some on the force may think she is faking her amnesia and has something to hide.

Not knowing whom to trust, she must find out who may still be pursuing her, before they eliminate her once and for all. Anna begins an investigation of her own immediate past and discovers she was callous and competitive enough to put her job above her family and was having an affair with Derek, who helps her with her investigation. The more she learns, the more she wants to put right whatever went wrong in her life. She and Derek were on the take. Her investigations lead to realize she had found a safe house for a witness to the mayor's murder, a young prostitute. Eventually, she works out that the only safe place for her was her father's house, and, going there, she unwittingly leads the killer's gang to the safe house, as Derek betrays her. She has no choice but to return with him and the young woman, as the gang leader has her husband and daughter hostage...

Production studio Incendo has produced several female-led thriller films.^[6] Forget and Forgive was produced with the participation of Bell Media. Principal photography began on 14 April 2014 in Montréal.^[5][6]

James Gelfand co-scored the film with his wife, pianist Louise Tremblay, while also working on two other projects over a number of months: Christmas film Northpole and The Prodigal Son, a "biblical musical".^[7]

In Canada, Forget and Forgive aired for the first time on 28 December 2014,^[4] on CTV Television Network.^[8] In the United States, it aired on the Lifetime Movie Network on 29 and 30 May 2015.^[9] It remains in the regular rotation on Lifetime.^[10]

A DVD was released in 2015. Forget and Forgive was available on Netflix until March 2018,^[11] and is available from myLifetime.com^[10] and Amazon Prime.^[12]

The film is available dubbed in French,^[4] in an adaptation by Pascale Lortie and Michel Gatignol.^[2]