It is both admirable in its convictions yet unaware of its limitations; it strives for beauty and meaning, but ends up looking silly.
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04/16/01
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
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,... [More]
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Bergin
Director: Adam Brooks
Reviews for The Invisible Circus
A soul-satisfying film about one young woman's rite of initiation into adulthood.
04/06/01
Though the script is remarkably faithful to Jennifer Egan's novel, it relies too heavily on voice-over to move the plot along, preferring to baldly inform the audience of developments than letting us figure them out for ourselves.
02/26/01
The Invisible Circus feels less like a drug trip and more like the annoying side effects on the morning after.
02/19/01
Strangely dispassionate and uncommitted for a movie about passionate commitment.
02/16/01
It's mostly dreary, plodding stuff that works as psychology 101.
02/16/01
A movie for people who are so sensitive they barely notice the feelings of others or what's going on in the world.
02/12/01
Although well cast and acted, the movie doesn't amount to much. Still, it is an enjoyable enough diversion.
02/12/01
The slow pace, lack of tension ... and increasingly preposterous developments will have many viewers seeing through this film long before it draws to a slow and laborious close.
02/09/01
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02/08/01
Comes off as oddly uninvolving, if not entirely irrelevant.
02/08/01
Part beautifully shot European travelogue and part moving exploration of the darker side of the hippie era's rabid idealism.
02/07/01
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.
02/07/01
The Invisible Circus embraces many of the themes of these and other films, but, as adrift as its two sister heroines, refuses to settle upon what it is really about.
02/07/01
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02/07/01
Not a trip worth taking.
02/07/01
A woefully tame and pallid affair.
02/07/01
Top CriticFor whatever reason, Brooks has decided to distance his characters from the audience, and the result is a cold, uninvolving experience.
02/05/01
Lacks the cohesion needed to keep the viewer's interest.
02/05/01
The Invisible Circus has its heart in the right place, but its hippie-dippie, flower-power motif never really goes anywhere or say anything new.
02/02/01
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