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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 (Emile Hirsch), the black sheep of the family, walks through his
life like it’s a bad dream. His father Ben (Jeff Daniels) begins treating
his wife and children like strangers and completely disengages from the
world around him, while his mother Sandy (Sigourney 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 neighbor over carefully
concealed secrets that threaten to tear the family apart.
With elements of pathos, salty humor 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.
Movie information
| Release Date (USA): | 2005-02-18 |
| Rating (USA): | R |
| Release Date (UK): | 2005-07-01 |
| Rating (UK) : | 18 |
| Director: | Dan Harris |
| Producer: | Illana Diamant and Moshe Diamant |
| Studio: | Sony Pictures Classics |
| Writer/s: | Dan Harris |
Cast
| Sigourney Weaver | Sandy Travis |
| Emile Hirsch | Tim Travis |
| Jeff Daniels | Ben Travis |
| Michelle Williams | Penny Travis |
| Kip Pardue | Matt Travis |
| Deirdre O'Connell | Marge Dwyer |
| Ryan Donowho | Kyle Dwyer |
| Suzanne Santo | Steph Connors |
| Jay Paulson | Vern |
| Luke Robertson | Jack Johnson |
| Lee Wilkof | Mitchell Goldstein |
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