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Release Date: Feb 18, 2005
Running Time: 112 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Belgium
Country Of Origin: Germany
starring: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Kip Pardue, Deidre O'Connell, Michelle Williams, Ryan Donowho, Suzanne Santo, Lori Yeghiayan, Jay Paulson
director: Dan Harris
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Following a sobering family tragedy, the Travises go to pieces. Teenaged son Tim, the black sheep of the family, walks through his life like it’s a bad dream. His father Ben begins treating his wife and children like strangers and completely disengages from the world around him, while his mother Sandy 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.
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Imaginary Heroes attempts to live by an ancient Hollywood proverb: ''If we pull out all the histrionic stops, the audience will respond.'' Incidentally, the film dies--albeit in its sleep, thanks to a strong performance turned in by Sigourney Weaver--by this very notion. Story A formulaic dramedy till the end, Heroes is equal thirds Igby Goes Down, Life as a House and a sub-par hybrid of the two. The Travis family is desperately trying to cope with the recent suicide of their budding… 
PETER TRAVERS -
January 27, 2005
Sigourney Weaver is a luminous actress with a tough core of intelligence and wit. And Emile Hirsch, who plays her guilt-tormented son, has the talent to sustain a major career. Their scenes together have a warmth that almost makes you forgive Imaginary Heroes, written by first-time director Dan Harris, for trying so hard and so futilely to duplicate Ordinary People. Does this sound familiar? Matt (Kip Pardue) is the star of his swim team and his family. When he kills himself, mom Sandy (Weaver)…
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