Writer-director Dan Harris’ script is so disjointed that Heroes rambles for most of its nearly two-hours.
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04/08/05
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Imaginary Heroes (2004)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:35
Rotten:66
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Imaginary Heroes is a muddled, melodramatic and unconvincing drama.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 17, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: This realistic family film starring Sigourney Weaver and Emile Hirsch as a loving mother and son asks some deep questions about mortality, the risks of depression, and staying together verses... [More]
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Deirdre O'Connell
Director: Daniel Harris
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Reviews for Imaginary Heroes
With that much baggage, Tim doesn’t need a loving family. He needs a Smarte Carte.
04/07/05
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04/02/05
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04/01/05
Stumbling between failed comedy and stilted drama, Imaginary Heroes never finds a convincing tone.
04/01/05
Writer-director Dan Harris ... runs Tim and the Travises through the dysfunctional-family checklist.
04/01/05
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03/26/05
Sigourney Weaver gives a terrific performance in this impressive film.
03/21/05
Although she comes across as bordering on insufferable, we are expected to understand that Sandy is the touchstone of honesty in the film because, like other American films of the Sundance variety, eccentricity signifies emotional authenticity.
03/18/05
Top CriticWeaver pretty much keeps Imaginary Heroes aloft.
03/18/05
Top CriticIf the film had been about Weaver rather than her family, Harris might have scripted an ending that represented a risky individual choice instead of a communal retreat.
03/18/05
...chisel away the superfluous, and there is a very fine movie here.
03/18/05
Has a third act that consists almost entirely of skeletons tumbling out of the closet, but Weaver's and Hirsch's flawless performances elevate the film above and beyond the ranks of 'Ordinary People' pastiches, and in the end it stands on its own merits.
03/13/05
Failed ambition is still ambition. Imaginary Heroes may overreach, but it challenges us as it does. That's heroic in any filmmaker.
03/11/05
An ambitious, uneven directorial debut.
03/11/05
Conversations, by the way, need to be laconic, cynical and postmodern. Tears take their time, if they come at all.
03/11/05
Top CriticAnother U.S. independent film that turns relentlessly inward, it keeps digging into Sandy's darkly-secreted past.
03/11/05
The only real ecstasy comes not from emotional enlightenment, but in the form of a pill at a college keg party.
03/11/05
The morbid curiosity with which Harris pokes through their preposterously complicated affairs makes Ordinary People look like the Christmas episode of Mr. Belvedere.
03/10/05
It's not clear why this same movie is made over and over. The concept isn't exactly inspirational box office gold.
03/09/05
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