Englishman in New York

Slap us if you think this question is a little too deep for a Thursday afternoon - but what if you had no recollection whatsoever of what made you the person you are today?

Englishman Doug Bruce walked out of his Manhattan apartment at 8pm and turned up on a New York subway heading to Coney Island 11 hours later - with no idea who he was, where he’d been or what he was doing.

“Eight months after the onset of amnesia I decided to write him a letter introducing myself and the idea of a film straight off the bat,” the helmer says. “I was an old friend and I wanted to make a film about what had happened to him. I had also heard that several of his 'new' friends were thinking of making a film about him, which made me feel quite protective. If anyone was going to tell his life story it should be someone from his past and that someone should be me.”

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