Invisible Child
by Joan Micklin Silver
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Actor: David Dorfman, Mae Whitman, Rita Wilson, Tushka Bergen, Victor GarberDirector: Joan Micklin Silver
Producer: Ann Weston
Producer: Gideon Amir
Producer: Jay Weston
Producer: Lisa Donovan
Producer: Marcy Gross
Writer: David Field
Writer: Ronald Bass
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starlight Video
Movie Reviews of Invisible Child
Movie Review: Us or THEM?
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a wonderful film that is much underated. It's a bit soapy at places but it speaks of a major undertow in our current society.
In the film, an otherwise wonderful and loving mother, belives that she has a third child in her family that really doesn't exist. She divides her time between what she belives are her three children. This is all well and good and the family is well adjusted because the whole family, including her husband, love her and allow her this delision.
But then, due to the innocent motives of the family's nanny who visits with the government agency of Child Protection, the government steps in and decides that the children need to be taken away from this delisional mother.
I won't give away the ending. It's very clever. However, I wish to point out that, at least in my opinion, there is a thinly masked social meaning to this film. What is most important? The family unit that is loving and funtional or the government's defination of what a "good" family is? Granted, this family is living with a delisional mother, but doing just fine - thank you. But that's not good enough for the government. They charge the father with "child abuse." A very damaging charge the seems to be more and more easily handed out in our current times.
If you care about families or have one of your own, you will love this adventure despite just a very few moments of "soapinest." It's worth it.
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