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The Invisible Circus (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 59

Fresh: 13

Rotten:46

Average Rating: 4.1/10

Consensus: Despite Jordana Brewster's strong performance, The Invisible Circus lacks the necessary dramatic tension to be interesting. Also, the cultural and political contexts of the period are barely explored.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexuality, language, and drug content

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Feb 2, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: In THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, sixties idealism meets headlong with family conflict and, mysteriously, death. This compelling drama, based on Jennifer Egan's novel, begins in the infamous Summer of '69,... In THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, sixties idealism meets headlong with family conflict and, mysteriously, death. This compelling drama, based on Jennifer Egan's novel, begins in the infamous Summer of '69, when radical hippie Faith O'Connor (Cameron Diaz), and her English boyfriend Wolf (Christopher Eccleston) take off for Europe, feeling that they will change the world for the positive. Faith diligently writes postcards to her younger sister Phoebe (Jordana Brewster). When they suddenly stop, the next Faith's family hears of her is that her body has been found at the bottom of a cliff outside a tiny Portuguese fishing village, the victim of an apparent suicide. Seven years later, Phoebe, a haunted, introverted teenager, still doesn't believe her adventurous, life-loving sister would have taken her own life so, against the wishes of her protective mother (Blythe Danner), Phoebe decides to retrace Faith's journey across Europe, using the postcards she had received from Faith as her only clues to a growing mystery. From a houseboat in Amsterdam to a flat in Paris, Phoebe follows Faith's footsteps right to the end. Along the way, she finds Wolf married and settled into a life of bourgeois complacency, one of the many twists in this chilling, engaging story. [More]

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Bergin

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Bergin, Camilla Belle, Blythe Danner

Director: Adam Brooks

Director: Adam Brooks
Screenwriter: Adam Brooks
Composer: Nick Laird-Clowes
Studio: New Line Cinema

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11/19/08
MaryAnn Johanson
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Adam Brooks' film is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s and as a coming of age of a girl obsessed with her sister's mysterious death

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12/18/06
Emanuel Levy
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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
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12/06/05
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02/03/04
Mike McGranaghan
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01/12/04
Michael Dequina
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12/15/03
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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12/15/03
Neil Norman
This is London

Cameron Diaz and Christopher Eccleston? Good. Jordana Brewster? Actorly indication, stilted line readings and nostril-flaring petulance. The result? A bad day at the Circus.

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04/28/03
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today
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01/07/03
David Poland
Hot Button

By the time the uninspiring finale occurs the audience is completely lost in boredom and longing for the credits.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/10/02
Anthony Miele
Film Threat

Picturesque European locations, a mystery whose successive folds will be uncovered by Faith’s ex-boyfriend (Christopher Eccleston, in a ratty wig he will have to live down for years), and some heavily psychological sermonizing.

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12/09/02
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly
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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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09/26/02
Peter Rainer
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It's one big cliché of sentimental drivel.

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04/04/02
Dennis Schwartz
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For fans of any of the performers involved, it should be a must-see.

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12/21/01
Ted Murphy
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12/10/01
Rich Cline
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Brooks tries to cram too much into his scenes, combining both the film's external world and characters' inner thoughts in a way that is cluttered and lacking in imagination.

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09/04/01
Ryan Cracknell
Apollo Guide

It is both admirable in its convictions yet unaware of its limitations; it strives for beauty and meaning, but ends up looking silly.

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04/16/01
Daniel Papkin
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