Director: Elizabeth Gill
Starring: Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery, Peter Gaynor, Fiona Glascott, Justine Mitchell, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Demien McAdam

-Reviewed by Linda

BUY THE DVD! Goldfish Memory

Goldfish Memory has a cute premise for a romantic comedy: A college professor woos his fresh-faced young female students with a tale of how goldfish have a memory of three seconds, making every experience seem as fresh and exciting as though it were for the first time. This launches the first of many stories, where characters of all stripes (straight, gay, and in between) fall in and out of love with each other, leaping from relationshipp to relationship, getting their hearts broken, then falling in love again and starting all over.

There's Tom (Sean Campion), the 40-ish professor, who finds himself shocked to get dumped by one of his own girl-toys before he dumps her, then to add insult to his disgrace, he actually falls in love for the first time with a woman closer to his own age. Angie (Flora Montgomery) is a cute TV newscaster, who has an affair with Clara (Fiona O'Shaughnessy), who dumps Angie, and takes up with one of Tom's exes Isolde (Fiona Glascott). In the meantime, Red (Keith McErleane), a bike messenger, falls for the seemingly straight David (Peter Gaynor), and accidently gets his best female friend (one of the above) pregnant. And on and on. And on.

The cast of Goldfish Memory is pleasant enough, all (for the most part) attractive people and interesting characters. Except, as with many ensemble films, the movie gets weighed down by juggling too many stories. One couple would become the focus, then suddenly the movie would jump to another character, then another, jumbling the timeframe into a state of confusion, leaving simply one too many gaping plot holes (most noticably the pregnancy tangent) that just didn't add up.

It is ironic that Goldfish Memory suffers from the same problem as the goldfish themselves. Too much sensory overload just leads to shutting off and forgetting half the plot lines. Except each time these stories came back on the screen, they didn't seem as fresh and exciting as the first time. They just became repetitive.

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