Sigourney Weaver is done with wrestling ET mama bitches with big teeth and slimy aliens pups popping out of her stomach, but she's back wrestling demons in a new movie opening in wide release Friday, "Imaginary Heroes" that co-stars Emile Hirsch.
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Sigourney plays a mom, but not the Wisteria Lane type of perfect mom. Now she's got a healthy drug habit, a decade long grudge, and a big awful secret and that's before one of her sons kills himself.
Emile Hirsch ("The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys," and "The Girl Next Door") plays the sensitive younger brother Tim, a high school senior, who insists he's fine, but naturally he goes over the edge.
His new behavior includes drugs, breaking his girlfriend's (Suzanne Santo) heart, raising hell with his best friend, Kyle (Ryan Donowho), and the usual scrawling angrily in a battered notebook., The movie is full of the usual suburban life incidents: Sandy (Sigourney) flirts with a suicidal supermarket checkout clerk (Jay Paulson) who later takes up with her college daughter Penny (Michelle Williams). Sandy's longtime feud with next-door neighbor Marge (Deirdre O'Connell), the mother of Tim, takes a surprising twist. Tim and Kyle are forced to do community service at a nursing home to amend for their deeds. Then they share a tender kiss on New Year's Eve that freaks them both out.
And the movie has some comic relief when Sandy visits a neighborhood head shop and asks for "the good stuff."
Looks like Sigourney will be channeling Mary Tyler Moore who played the icy, judgmental control freak mom of a son who committed suicide back in 1980 with "Ordinary People" -- a film that heavily influences this one. Although this movie premiered in New York and L.A. in December, it's taken awhile to get around to the rest of the country.
I look forward to seeing Emile in anything but if this doesn't do well at the box office, "Lords of Dogtown," is just a few months away.
The movie is full of the usual suburban life incidents: Sandy (Sigourney) flirts with a suicidal supermarket checkout clerk (Jay Paulson) who later takes up with her college daughter Penny (Michelle Williams). Sandy's longtime feud with next-door neighbor Marge (Deirdre O'Connell), the mother of Tim, takes a surprising twist. Tim and Kyle are forced to do community service at a nursing home to amend for their deeds. Then they share a tender kiss on New Year's Eve that freaks them both out.
And the movie has some comic relief when Sandy visits a neighborhood head shop and asks for "the good stuff."
Looks like Sigourney will be channeling Mary Tyler Moore who played the icy, judgmental control freak mom of a son who committed suicide back in 1980 with "Ordinary People" -- a film that heavily influences this one. Although this movie premiered in New York and L.A. in December, it's taken awhile to get around to the rest of the country.
I look forward to seeing Emile in anything but if this doesn't do well at the box office, "Lords of Dogtown," is just a few months away.
