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starring: Jordana Brewster, Cameron Diaz, Christopher Eccleston, Blythe Danner, Camilla Belledirected by: Adam Brooks
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780638457
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 078063845X
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: August 06, 2002
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 21517
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Description:
Set in the 70s, a teen-aged girl retraces her older sister's steps through Europe in order to uncover the motives for the sister's suicide, but inadvertently meets and falls in love with her dead sister's boyfriend.
Amazon.com:
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 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Moving and Realistic 'Coming of Age' Drama
Some people don't like this film, since it doesn't fill in all the blanks for them, or simply because they don't like the 60's.
That's too bad, because in it's own way it's a little gem. I for one don't need my feelings and thoughts dictated to me, in the way that many 'popcorn' movies do. A way that many people have gotten used to it seems, and that made them lazy. And as for the 60's, this film is certainly not without its (implicit) criticism about the era...
This film ... Read More
Rating:  - A wonderful film
It is 1969. Phoebe(Camilla Belle) is an 11 year old girl growing up with an idealized vision of her 19 year old sister Faith(Cameron Diaz). Faith is the doer, the truth-seeker, the fixer of all the wrongs in the world. Then one day, Phoebe and her mother Gail(Blythe Danner) receive word that Faith is dead. Faith has killed herself. Both Phoebe and Gail are overwhelmed by this news and, although saddened, Gail mourns. Phoebe can't let it go. Phoebe decides to go to Europe and find out what happened. ... Read More
Rating: - look carefully
....this is a granite-colored gem, more beautiful for what it lacks than for what it has.
It lacks, for one thing, that amber-colored lens that so many filmmakers use, the one that colors the world in bright jewel tones and lush greens. It lacks Spielberg-esque background music telling you how to feel. It lacks glamour, fairy tales and phoniness.
Phoebe goes to Europe to track Faith's footsteps. There is no aerial view of the Eiffel Tower with accordions playing La Vie En Rose. There are ... Read More
Rating:  - The Invisible Circus
I think "The Invisible Circus" was a good movie, but it could've been better. Here are the facts:
Phoebe(Jordana Brewster) is an eighteen year old living in San Francisco in 1976 with her mother(Blythe Danner). Her father(Patrick Bergin) died of leukemia nine years before, and her sister Faith(Cameron Diaz) killed herself six years before in Portugal.
Phoebe never got over Faith's death, so she decides to go to Europe to find out what happened to Faith during her year in Europe. ... Read More
Rating: - Moving
This video is very moving and intense. It is the story of a girl who committed suicide in the 1960s, and her now-grown-up sister's attempt to understand what happened. It seamlessly traces and intertwines both sisters' trips through Europe, and shows how the older sister went further and further into rebellion until she reached a point she could not turn back or go on. It shows the older sister's integrity - even though she did not get caught in her crime, and faced only her own guilt, she was unable ... Read More
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