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The Invisible Circus (2001)

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Reviews Counted:60

Fresh:13

Rotten:47

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

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

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,... 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 (Christopher Eccleston) take off for Europe, feeling that they will change the world for the positive. Faith diligently writes postcards to her younger sister Phoebe (Jordana Brewster). When they suddenly stop, the next Faith's family hears of her is that her body has been found at the bottom of a cliff outside a tiny Portuguese fishing village, the victim of an apparent suicide. Seven years later, Phoebe, a haunted, introverted teenager, still doesn't believe her adventurous, life-loving sister would have taken her own life so, against the wishes of her protective mother (Blythe Danner), Phoebe decides to retrace Faith's journey across Europe, using the postcards she had received from Faith as her only clues to a growing mystery. From a houseboat in Amsterdam to a flat in Paris, Phoebe follows Faith's footsteps right to the end. Along the way, she finds Wolf married and settled into a life of bourgeois complacency, one of the many twists in this chilling, engaging story. [More]

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Bergin

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Bergin, Camilla Belle, Blythe Danner

Director: Adam Brooks

Director: Adam Brooks
Screenwriter: Adam Brooks
Composer: Nick Laird-Clowes
Studio: New Line Cinema

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Reviews for The Invisible Circus

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 30 2001 02:55 PM

Urban Cinefile

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MaryAnn Johanson

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 19 2008 03:15 AM

Flick Filosopher

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Emanuel Levy

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 18 2006 10:38 AM

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Geoff Andrew

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 24 2006 04:05 AM

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 06 2005 08:01 PM

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Mike McGranaghan

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comment Comment | Feb., 03 2004 04:23 PM

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Michael Dequina

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 12 2004 02:05 AM

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Christopher Tookey

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 15 2003 05:24 PM

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Neil Norman

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 15 2003 05:24 PM

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Brent Simon

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 28 2003 12:19 PM

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David Poland

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 07 2003 08:16 AM

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Anthony Miele

By the time the uninspiring finale occurs the audience is completely lost in boredom and longing for the credits.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 10 2002 08:16 AM

Film Threat

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Ella Taylor

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 09 2002 01:50 PM

L.A. Weekly

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Jean Lowerison

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 21 2002 08:14 AM

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Peter Rainer

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 26 2002 12:35 PM

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Dennis Schwartz

It's one big cliché of sentimental drivel.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 04 2002 11:17 AM

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Ted Murphy

For fans of any of the performers involved, it should be a must-see.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 21 2001 09:11 AM

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Rich Cline

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 10 2001 06:29 PM

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Ryan Cracknell

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 04 2001 12:04 PM

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Daniel Papkin

It is both admirable in its convictions yet unaware of its limitations; it strives for beauty and meaning, but ends up looking silly.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 16 2001 12:58 PM

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