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11/30/01
The Invisible Circus (2001)
22 %
Reviews Counted: 59 Fresh: 13 Rotten:46 Average Rating: 4.1/10
Consensus:
Despite Jordana Brewster's strong performance, The Invisible Circus lacks the necessary dramatic tension to be interesting. Also, the cultural and political contexts of the period are barely explored.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 2, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: In THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, sixties idealism meets headlong with family conflict and, mysteriously, death. This compelling drama, based on Jennifer Egan's novel, begins in the infamous Summer of '69, when radical hippie Faith O'Connor (Cameron Diaz), and her English boyfriend Wolf... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Bergin, Camilla Belle
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Adam Brooks' film is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s and as a coming of age of a girl obsessed with her sister's mysterious death
12/18/06
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06/24/06
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12/15/03
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12/15/03
Cameron Diaz and Christopher Eccleston? Good. Jordana Brewster? Actorly indication, stilted line readings and nostril-flaring petulance. The result? A bad day at the Circus.
04/28/03
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01/07/03
By the time the uninspiring finale occurs the audience is completely lost in boredom and longing for the credits.
12/10/02
Picturesque European locations, a mystery whose successive folds will be uncovered by Faith’s ex-boyfriend (Christopher Eccleston, in a ratty wig he will have to live down for years), and some heavily psychological sermonizing.
12/09/02
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10/21/02
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09/26/02
For fans of any of the performers involved, it should be a must-see.
12/21/01
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12/10/01
Brooks tries to cram too much into his scenes, combining both the film's external world and characters' inner thoughts in a way that is cluttered and lacking in imagination.
09/04/01
It is both admirable in its convictions yet unaware of its limitations; it strives for beauty and meaning, but ends up looking silly.
04/16/01
A credible portrait of an era, and draws in its tensions and conflicts with quite some power.
04/16/01
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