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.
Imaginary Heroes
People are never who they seem to be.
2004 · 1h 51m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Dan Harris
Overview
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Weaver pretty much keeps Imaginary Heroes aloft.
Failed ambition is still ambition. Imaginary Heroes may overreach, but it challenges us as it does. That's heroic in any filmmaker.
An ambitious, uneven directorial debut.
Conversations, by the way, need to be laconic, cynical and postmodern. Tears take their time, if they come at all.
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