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Blythe Danner, Cameron Diaz, Camilla Belle

An affecting movie about ghosts and illusions, The Invisible Circus follows Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an American girl who's retracing the path of her sister Faith (Cameron Diaz), hoping to ...( read more  read more... )discover what led to Faith's mysterious death. Using the postcards that Faith sent her from Europe as a map, Phoebe travels from Amsterdam to Paris to Portugal, learning from Faith's ex-boyfriend Wolf (Christopher Eccleston) about a side of Faith that Phoebe knew nothing about--a side that overturns all of Phoebe's cherished beliefs about her sister and herself. The performances in The Invisible Circus are uneven, and yet the culmination of the movie captures something piercingly sad, something acute and evocative about how survivors create myths about the lost, myths that can both help and hinder their lives. Blythe Danner plays the mother of the two girls in a brief but subtly powerful performance. --Bret Fetzer

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R, 93 min.

Directed by: Adam Brooks

Release Date: February 2, 2001

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DVD Release Date: December 10, 2002

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Flixster Reviews (113)

  • jamilyn0276
    August 8, 2009
    jamilyn0276
    When Phoebe turns 18, she travels to Europe to find out what really happened to her older sister, Faith, who went over there in the 60s and died.
    I found The Invisible Circus to be somewhat entertaining. It had a decent story and managed to keep my attention. But, with the cast o...( read more)f Cameron Diaz, Blythe Danner, Jordana Brewster, and Christopher Eccleston I was expecting a little bit more than that.
    Jordana Brewster did look great in this movie. Back before she became a sickly skinny stick figure. Her and Christopher Eccleston had really good on screen chemistry in this one. Cameron Diaz and Camilla Belle, who played younger Phoebe, really had good onscreen chemistry as well. You really believed that they were sisters who genuinely loved one another. I wish you would have seen more of the amazing Blythe Danner on screen, but I can understand why it was written the way it was.
    I think I would like to read this book, I am sure it's a lot more detailed than the film. I think this film would have been a lot better had it not felt so rushed to fit everything in.
  • leilaniplumeria
    October 8, 2009
    leilaniplumeria
    I felt her passion. It was very ... She looked her sister's memory in that man. Its very cruel....Missing many things.
  • jve76
    September 15, 2009
    jve76
    One sympathises with the girl trying to find out what happened to her big sister, but much of the story doesn't ring true. The scene where she goes mad doesn't lead anywhere. Plus one star for having Cameron Diaz.
  • MichelleasaurusRex
    April 29, 2009
    MichelleasaurusRex
    I really didn't find this movie very interesting. It had a good story to it, but like I wasn't really into it, this movie was kind of flat.
  • shutterbug99
    January 5, 2009
    shutterbug99
    I've just been reading about the book of this movie on Amazon, and it sounds quite interesting, so one for me to check out!
  • Soundsofmadness
    January 3, 2009
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • SaintFrancisofAssisi
    June 5, 2008
    SaintFrancisofAssisi
    Not interested in watching
  • Abzurdoh
    January 26, 2008
    Abzurdoh
    Me encanto esta pelicula. La tenia en VHS, y no se si puedo conseguirla en dvd. Me encantaria porque me trae muchos buenos recuerdos. Es lindisima.

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Critic Reviews

February 7, 2001
David Edelstein, Slate

The film is overnarrated and in spots overwritten, but Brooks ... does well with actors, and he has coaxed an extraordinary performance out of the young Jordana Brewster. full review

February 2, 2001
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

The Invisible Circus ... doesn't so much illuminate Phoebe's confusion as share it. full review

February 2, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

When flashbacks tease us with bits of information, it has to be done well, or we feel toyed with. Here the mystery is solved by stomping in thick-soled narrative boots through the squishy marsh of con... full review

February 1, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The sisters cut to the heart. full review

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