FILM REVIEW
Imaginary Heroes
Director: Dan Harris
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Emile
Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams, Kip Pardue
Classification: 13L
Running Time: 110 min
Opens On: 14 Oct 2005
Imaginary Heroes is a look at one long year in the
lives of an ostensibly typical, upper-middle-class suburban family. It
tells a tale of a family in crisis with wit, warmth and a very
contemporary sardonic spin.
Following a sobering family tragedy, the Travises
go to pieces. Teenaged son Tim (Hirsch), the black sheep of the family,
walks through his life like it’s a bad dream. His father Ben (Daniels)
begins treating his wife and children like strangers and completely
disengage from the world around him, while his mother Sandy (Weaver) takes
to smoking pot and letting loose with all the considerable sarcasm she can
muster. Meanwhile, she wages a bitter feud with the next door neighbour
over carefully concealed secrets that threaten to tear the family apart.
With elements of pathos, salty humour and
self-discovery, Imaginary Heroes is ultimately about what it means to be
part of a family – the good, the bad, and everything in between.
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