Imaginary Heroes
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| Directed by | Dan Harris |
| Produced by |
Illana Diamant Moshe Diamant Frank Hübner Art Linson Gina Resnick Denise Shaw |
| Written by | Dan Harris |
| Starring |
Sigourney Weaver Emile Hirsch Jeff Daniels |
| Music by | Deborah Lurie |
| Cinematography | Tim Orr |
| Edited by | James Lyons |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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Release date
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December 17, 2004 |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $291,118 |
Imaginary Heroes is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Dan Harris. It focuses on the traumatic effect the suicide of the elder son has on a suburban family.
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.
His mother Sandy tries to keep the lines of communication open with younger son Tim while easing her emotional pain with marijuana. Father Ben, a perfectionist who worshipped Matt as much as he ignored Tim, insists on continuing to place a meal at the dinner table for the dead boy and begins to drink heavily. Eventually, without telling his wife, he takes a leave of absence from work and spends his days lost in reverie on a park bench. Tim, always in the shadows as the smaller, unathletic, less accomplished "other brother," struggles to get through school while trying to resist the recreational drugs his best friend Kyle Dwyer is always offering him and contemplating having sex with classmate Steph Connors. Sister Penny, away at college, dutifully comes home for infrequent visits and tries to help bridge the widening gap between her surviving brother and their parents.
With the passing months, new crises arise and a long-kept secret is revealed, until it is revealed that one family member was aware of Matt's inner turmoil and suicidal thoughts and why nothing was done to help him.
Screenwriter/director Dan Harris was 22 years old when he sent the script to Bryan Singer, who hired him to work on the screenplays for X2, Superman Returns, and the remake of Logan's Run. Two years later he left Singer to begin pre-production work on Heroes. The film was shot on location in Chatham, Glen Ridge, Montclair, Newark, Wayne, and West Paterson, New Jersey.
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