![]() ![]() ![]() She lives with her mother, Gail (Blythe Danner), but something basic is missing from her life: a sense of connectedness to the outside world, a meaningful act that will make her growing pains more tolerable. Set in San Francisco, circa 1977, the first reel centres on Phoebe O'Connor (Jordana Brewster), who has just graduated from high school and is about to begin college in the autumn. A bleak future awaits Fine Line's film, which has been long on the shelf and was a last-moment substitute for The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys in the Sundance Premieres section. The film's strongest marketing hook is Cameron Diaz, who plays the role of the older sister, but her performance (which is pallid) is contained within a lame movie, that despite exotic locales, fails to register even as a travelogue. ![]() ![]() 98mins.Īdam Brooks' The Invisible Circus is a total miss, both as a potentially intriguing look into the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and as a coming of age of a young girl obsessed by the mysterious death of her sister. ![]()
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