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"Imaginary Heroes" is a film I truly wanted to like and love. It had all the ingredients for a solid film, yet came up a little short. It comes from first time director Dan Harris, who wrote the screenplay for "X-Men 2" and then got the funding to direct and write his own film. I have seen far worst first films from writer/directors and this kid has some screenplays he's working on, you'll be hearing from Dan Harris. The Travis family seems to be the normal suburban family with money, good looks, and a champion swimmer son who is off to the Olympic try outs in a couple of months. But things are not always as they seem now are they? Then tragedy hits, as the the champion swimmer son commits suicide. This shakes the very foundation of this family. They all deal in different ways. Tim (Emile Hirsch), the younger brother, starts a life of drugs and avoids his girlfriend who wants to help him. The father Ben (Jeff Daniels) is standoffish and hostile and downright hard to deal with. He thinks the only thing in the family that was good was the champion swimmer son. The daughter (Michelle Williams) is away at college and hates being around the family. Then you have the mother (Sigourney Weaver) who smokes pot and has an acid tongue. Think of this movie as a 2005 version of Robert Redford's "Ordinary People", about white suburban people dealing with tradgey and loss. Harris gives his actors plenty of room to breathe and scenes to show off their acting talents. Sigourney Weaver has her moments in quirky eccentric fashion as this pot smoking mom. Emile Hirsch is also enjoyable. Dan Harris knows how to write speech between characters Yet, the movie never has a distinct pace or know when to hit it's right emotional drama notes and comedy notes. Instead, we get bombarded with scene after scene of weird character or situation. Plus, the movie at times is so dark, so depressing, and so cynical, it's hard to really sink your teeth into it. Everyone is so medicated, drugged, and depressed. It's got a very moody atmosphere to it. Then at the end, they rush around and try and do a lot at once and it becomes overdone and tedious. A lot of soap opera level drama. I give props to Dan Harris for an interesting try, but not even enough and all over the place and very rushed towards the end. Tony Farinella email this review to a friend
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