Imaginaerum (film)

Imaginaerum
Official poster
Directed by	Stobe Harju
Produced by	Neil Dunn Jukka Helle André Rouleau Markus Selin
Screenplay by	Stobe Harju Mikko Rautalahti Richard Jackson
Story by	Stobe Harju Tuomas Holopainen
Starring	Marianne Farley Quinn Lord Francis-Xavier McCarthy Ilkka Villi Joanna Noyes Keyanna Fielding Stéphane Demers Ron Lea Hélène Robitaille
Music by	Nightwish Petri Alanko
Cinematography	Benoît Beaulieu
Edited by	Mathieu Bélanger
Production company	Solar Films Caramel Films
Distributed by	Scene Nation
Release date	November 23, 2012 (2012-11-23)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Finland Canada
Language	English
Budget	$3.7 million
Box office	$190,819 (Finland, Russia and Malaysia)

Imaginaerum (also promoted as Imaginaerum by Nightwish) is a 2012 Finnish-Canadian musical fantasy film co-written and directed by Stobe Harju. It was developed with and features music from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's seventh studio album of the same name; Nightwish's keyboardist and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen co-wrote the film. Imaginaerum, which is produced by Markus Selin from Solar Films Inc. along with Nightwish, is the feature film debut of Stobe Harju.

It received grants from the Finnish Film Foundation, a Finnish government institution. The film received $575,000 toward its $3.7 million budget. The film was originally titled Imaginarium, but the title was later changed to Imaginaerum in order to avoid mix-ups. The film was released on November 23, 2012 in Finland.

Thomas Whitman is a 75-year-old former musician who has lapsed into a coma after years of suffering from multi-infarct dementia. As he is clinging to his life while his estranged daughter Gem ponders on signing a do not resuscitate order, Thomas' mind enters a fantasy world where he relives his life as a ten-year-old orphan. After meeting a girl named Ann at the orphanage and acquiring a snow globe containing a dancing figurine named "Arabesque", young Thomas befriends a snowman named "Mr. White", who takes him on a flight to the skies. But while chasing his father Theodore's airplane, Thomas loses his balance and falls into a surreal world bordered by a run-down roller coaster track, which represents his mind and memories. As pieces of the track fall apart, a mechanic, symbolic of Thomas' doctor in the real world, complains about how futile it is to try to repair the track. The doctor looks to a younger Gem for advice who says they should just let it fall apart; this coincides with Gem agreeing to the DNR order in the real world. Thomas meets a younger version of Gem and a 72-year-old Ann, who warn him about Mr. White. He runs to a "dollhouse", where he sees himself and Ann in their 30s, as members of his band Whitman. The elderly Ann once again appears in front of him, warning him that the snowman is evil and is responsible for the loss of his memories.