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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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Watching it is like having a book read to you by someone who can't enliven his voice above a monotone.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
02/01/01
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Unfortunately, Brewster is really the only reason to catch The Invisible Circus.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
02/01/01
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter

The sisters cut to the heart.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
02/01/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

This modest project is all about atmosphere and reflection, and, as such, it is successful.

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02/01/01
Gregory Weinkauf
Gregory Weinkauf
New Times

It's not bad; it's just completely inconsequential.

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02/01/01
Ernest Hardy
Ernest Hardy
Film.com

An absorbing story about hope, youthful ardency and shattered illusions that creates a bonding empathy between the audience and its pensive young heroine.

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02/01/01
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

Ends up having all the heft of a Nancy Drew mystery decked out in a tie-dyed T-shirt and peasant skirt.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
01/25/01
Kevin Maynard
Kevin Maynard
Mr. Showbiz

Brewster has us caught up in her adventure, making us empathize with her conflicts and compulsions.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
01/09/01
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Adam Brooks's turgid adaptation merely emphasizes the book's stiff contrivances and wobbly characterizations.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dennis Lim
Dennis Lim
Village Voice

There's painfully little that's enlightening, provocative or engaging in this third-rate Circus.

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01/01/00
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

The current yearning for that more intensely felt cultural or political spectacle is barely explored and then discarded.

Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
01/01/00
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press
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01/01/00
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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