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Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Emile Hirsch
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Imaginary Heroes |
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Matt Travis, a young competition swimmer, decides to commit suicide at home in his room. While his father Ben is unable to accept this event and, after having secretly left his job, spends his days on a bench in the city, his mother Sandy tries to catch up with Matt's brother, Tim. Tim can't bear anymore his father who keeps making comparisons between him and his dead brother. Furthermore, he doesn't know whether he really loves his girl-friend Steph and can't decide if he will have sex with her.
As everybody keeps telling him how sorry they are about Matt's death, Tim and his friend Kyle start to take drugs and, one night, they have a car accident. A few weeks later, after having taken alcoholic beverages and drugs, Tim and Kyle have sex together. When Sandy has to go to the hospital and is diagnosed with a bad lung infection, her husband Ben decides to stop mourning Matt's death and start a new life with his wife. Sandy decides then to tell Tim that he isn't Ben's son but the son of Kyle's father who ran away from home before he was born. Written and directed by Dan Harris in 2003.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Imaginary Heroes |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Coping with loss of
- Brother
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (man) very skinny
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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