Clean Slate

Clean Slate (1994) is a US comedy-detective you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Mick Jackson. Dana Carvey plays Pogue, a private eye whose memory wipes overnight — every morning starts with a blank mind and cassette notes he left himself the night before.

Pogue is in the middle of a dangerous case and somewhere in the early stages of falling for a woman played by Valeria Golino, and neither situation gets easier when you forget both by dawn. James Earl Jones, Michael Gambon, and Kevin Pollak round out the cast; Brian Cranston and Bob Odenkirk each get a scene years before either became a household name.

Carvey plays confused without tipping into clownish, which is the correct call — the amnesia premise works here because the performance stays grounded. Watch Clean Slate (1994) online on iFILM.