The Invisible (2007)

A teenager is left invisible to the living after an attack.

Director:

David S. Goyer

Writers:

Mick Davis (screenplay), Christine Roum (screenplay)

Stars:

Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Justin Chatwin	...	Nick Powell
Margarita Levieva	...	Annie Newton
Marcia Gay Harden	...	Diane Powell
Chris Marquette	...	Pete Egan
Alex O'Loughlin	...	Marcus Bohem
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Detective Brian Larson
Michelle Harrison	...	Detective Kate Tunney
Ryan Kennedy	...	Matty
Andrew Francis	...	Dean
P. Lynn Johnson	...	Sharon Egan
Serge Houde	...	Martin Egan
Desiree Zurowski	...	Lindy Newton
Mark Houghton	...	Jack Newton
Alex Ferris	...	Victor Newton
Tania Saulnier	...	Suzie

Storyline

Nick Powell is an excellent high-school student who raises money by selling homework and results of quizzes to his schoolmates. He aims to travel to London for a writer's course - telling his best friend, Pete Egan, that he has already bought the airplane ticket but he has not told his mother yet. Annie Newton has a problem with Pete, who owes her money. As events unfold, due to a case of mistaken identity, Nick takes a severe beating from Annie and her gang, his body dumped in a sewer. The next morning, he discovers he cannot be seen - he is now a spirit in a state of limbo and can only observe as the events of that day unfold.

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Plot Keywords:

limbo | death | beating | airplane ticket | high school | 

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Taglines:

How do you solve a murder when the victim is you?

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence, criminality, sensuality and language - all involving teens

Details

Official Sites:

MySpace

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 April 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Invisible

Filming Locations:

Burnaby Mountain Secondary School, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$7,717,309, 29 April 2007, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$20,568,319, 22 July 2007

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Birnbaum / Barber Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

WILHELM SCREAM: About 25 minutes into the movie, when a guy gets thrown into a swimming pool.

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Goofs

When the police are rushing to the dam, Detective Larsen asks Detective Tunney how long until the dam opens. She says 15 minutes. Yet, she waits until they are standing on the dam to use her cell phone to call to have the water shut off.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Diane Powell: It wasn't easy when Nick's father died, raising a teenager alone. But with a boy like Nick, well, he is now everything a mother could want. We've been through some hard times. We've carried each other. Now I look to the future, and I know there's nothing that we can't do together.

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Connections

References Sesame Street (1969)

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Soundtracks

Stars and Sons
Written and Performed by Broken Social Scene
Courtesy of Arts & Crafts

User Reviews

Not another pointless ghost movie.

I love this movie because it isn't the same old ghost story you've come to memorize by now. Unlike the cliché disguised as a ghost flick such as The Orphanage, which critics loved, this movie broke rules. It didn't make sense, but that's what made it good. The characters were memorable, unlike the characters in The Orphanage that are so cliché they now have their own genres: Apathetic Dad, Angry Mama Bear Mom, Innocent Child That Can Do No Wrong. The Invisible doesn't use any of these clichés. It makes its own rules and then breaks its own rules. The ghosts don't revert to the same old jump-at-you-AHHH! tactics that we've all seen countless times. They actually try to be more disturbing than that, by being more realistic and not scary.

I simply don't understand the critics. They trash movies like this that actually try to be different and hail hopeless clichés like The Orphanage. I also don't understand people who do the same.

Yes, this movie could be labeled as emo, but you'll see this movie has a lot to say that you're not going to find in what the critics call "deep" movies with "moral".

It's not perfect by any means. I could sit here and name countless technical flaws with the presentation (like the opening scene), but they're lost to the fact that this movie tried to be different. I'm so stunned that something actually tried to be different anything else bad about the movie fell away.

7/10