The Invisible (2007)

Director:

David S. Goyer

Writers (WGA):

Mick Davis (screenplay) and
Christine Roum (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

27 April 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Life, death and something in between.

Plot:

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

Plot Keywords:

Limbo | Beating | High School | Airplane Ticket | Death

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

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

MPAA:

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

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Ontario) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42920) | Germany:12 | UK:12A | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Malaysia:18PL | Australia:M | South Korea:18 | Finland:K-13 | Iceland:14

Filming Locations:

Burnaby Mountain Secondary School, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Trivia:

A subplot was removed involving drug smugglers. It was feared this would give it an R-rating and wasn't necessary to the plot.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Nick writes "HEY ANNIE" on the model plane at the end, the plane is shown flying around but there is no writing visible on the wing.

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.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Den osynlige (2002)

Soundtrack:

Stars and Sons

The Worst Film of the Year

This god awful disaster sat around for months...don't know if anyone remembers the original trailer or the original artwork, but the tag line said "How do you solve a murder if you're the victim"? Well, that's NOT what this film is, it's not a murder mystery so there's nothing to really "solve". However, the original trailer had a scene in it where the main character runs into another ghost who tells him he has a limited amount of time to solve his own murder and find out what happened to him, otherwise he's toast. That may have made a better movie but oh my god....was this thing ever awful. It's a perfect movie for MSTK3 if that were still around. It's laughably bad. For starters how does a midget girl throw around guys much bigger than her...and she has a handy gang at her disposal...what is she, the teen-aged Ma Barker? And the lead guy...jeez, could he whine more? This movie followed every cliché and on top of it all it had a lousy soundtrack full of mopey depressing songs. Hopefully The Invisible will live up or down to its namesake and disappear forever.