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Imagination
USA 2007
produced by Joseph Cahill, Robert Berry (executive) for Albino Fawn Productions
directed by Eric Leiser
starring Ed K. Gildersleeve, Nikki Haddad, Jessi Haddad, Courtney Sanford, Travis Poelle, Anthony Caraday, Bob Gerlach, Laura Leiser, Kevin Le, John Le, Jason Byrne, Laina Kim, Sebastian Brown, Burton Bush, Melissa Haddad, Miwa Matreyek, Robert Berry, Lidia Meier
writen by eric Leiser, Jeffrey Leiser, music by Jeffrey Leiser, animation by Eric Leiser, special effects by Anthony Barcelo/Whisperwork Studios
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Two pre-teen girls: Sarah (Jessi Haddad) is blind while Anna (Nikki
Haddad) is suffering from symptoms similar to autism. Individually, they
are hardly able to lead a normal life, but together, each is the yin
to each other's yang, and they tend to retreat more and more into their own
imaginary world, especially after their mother (Courtney Sanford) dies and
they are left in the care of their psychiatrist Dr. Reineger (Ed
K.Gildersleeve). Reineger really wants to help the girls to become
independent from one another, but the more effort he puts into studying
them, the more he has to admit to himself that he's on the verge of
failing, and he even starts to look for supernatural explanation for the
girls' condition. Then though he learns that the girls have run away, and
when he and his men go looking for them, they find out the girls might
have been sucked into their imaginary world altogether ... Admittedly,
this film features some great images, some nice stop motion animation, and
impressive fairy tale like scenes. That said, the whole film is held
together by a less than compelling story that suffers from that very
American syndrome to try and explain everything away (even though in this
case, the explanation eventually fails to come up with results) and the
American predilection for (often misunderstood) psychology. And Ed
K.Gildersleeve hams up his role as psychiatrist bit too much, and the depicition
of his role by the
filmmaker is rather blunt (we know he's a scientist because he frequently
uses a microscope), so that doesn't help one bit either. Such a shame the nice
images and the animation couldn't have been framed by a better film ...
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