It stars Robin Williams, Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk, Stephanie Romanov, Genevieve Buechner and Brendan Fletcher.

The film takes place in a setting where brain implants make it possible to record the sight and sound of entire lives.

Years later, the adult Hakman has become a skilled cutter who specializes in editing the memories of controversial people into flattering life stories.

In a meeting, Fletcher demands the memory recordings so that he can use Bannister, who he suspects was a pedophile, as a scandal to shut down EYE Tech, the implant manufacturer.

Bannister's wife Jennifer is dismissive, but Isabel reveals that the man, recently dead of a car crash, was a teacher named Louis Hunt.

When he returns to find his apartment in disarray, he assumes that Fletcher has broken in; instead, Delila confronts him, having found memory tapes that document her prior relationship.

Hakman tells Bannister's wife that the erased footage was lost in an accident, and she feigns disappointment, content to let dirty secrets stay hidden.

The recorded memories show that Hakman had attempted to dissuade Louis from crossing the plank, and that he had stepped in red paint, not blood.

The site's critical consensus reads: "The Final Cut fails to make compelling use of its intriguing premise and talented cast, settling for a middling sci-fi drama that never justifies its pretensions.

[5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 3 stars out of 4, and wrote that "the movie never really finds its way out of the dilemmas it has created", but that Williams's acting saves it from these issues.