“The Invisibles” will be gracing screens in Vancouver and Toronto on 20September2024. Canadian film is largely unappreciated at the box office both in Canada and internationally. “The Invisibles” is one of those “warm and fuzzy” movies like “Peggy Sue Got Married” or “Back to the Future”. Not overly complicated but not simplistic so if it won’t take off domestically and internationally there is yet another loss for Canadian filmmakers and worldwide audiences. And I told director Andrew Currie and Charlotte starring as “Rufus” the dog my views on the film and Charlotte gave me a big tail wag and Currie an appreciative smile.
Charlie Fisher (Tim Blake Wilson) and his wife Hannah (Gretchen Mol) are unhappy married Hamiltonians suffering from a tragic loss of their young son Oskar (Simon Webster). Hannah is in therapy but Charlie doesn’t have the will to join her having the inability to accept Oskar’s death. He suffers further mental battering being passed over for a promotion at work. He is miserably unhappy and suddenly Charlie is invisible and unheard and hanging out in bowling alley headquarters with other invisibles all of whom were once miserable like Charlie.
The warm and effusive Carl (Simon Webster) acts as barkeeper at the bowling alley bar and in effect the manger of this group of invisibles. This place that the invisibles are in has no pain as it has enabled the invisibles to escape worldly inflicted trauma they have left. However persuasive Carl is about the benefits of the world of the invisibles Charlie ( and Nick played by Nathan Alexis Canada’s rising indigenous star actor) wants to return to the living world and his Hannah.
Charlie has a difficult choice as in his new world Oskar has joined him and a former first love as well. Will he leave Oskar and return to Hannah? Is love and regret at not showing it in deeds enough to escape the numbing effect of this world the invisibles are in?
Clever filmmaking. Superb casting. Greenwood, Mol and Nelson absolutely shine in “The Invisibles” a film well blended with dark comedy, tear jerking moments, tragedy, horror and science fiction. Memories of Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” clicking her red slippers and wishing she was back in Kansas.
You can see the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8lNnpaZ3c
RKS 2024 Film Rating 93/100.
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