The Invisible (2007)

Director:

David S. Goyer

Writers (WGA):

Mick Davis (screenplay) and
Christine Roum (screenplay) ...
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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 | High School | Airplane Ticket | Beating | 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
Kevin McNulty	...	Principal Whitcliff
Laara Sadiq	...	Ms. Barclay
Aleks Holtz	...	Football Jock
Cory Monteith	...	Jimmy
Maggie Ma	...	Danielle
Sefton Fincham	...	Sleeping Kid
Ron Selmour	...	Guillaume
Colby Wilson	...	Mechanic
Mi-Jung Lee	...	Newscaster
Jason Diablo	...	Firefighter
Leanne Adachi	...	EMT
Chris Shields	...	CSI Detective
Panou	...	K-9 Cop
Michael Tayles	...	Young Cop
Christopher Heyerdahl	...	Dr. Woland
Andrew Coghlan	...	Trauma Resident
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Donner	...	Morris (uncredited)
Don Thompson	...	Cop in Doorway (uncredited)

Directed by
David S. Goyer

Writing credits (WGA)
Mick Davis		(screenplay) and
Christine Roum		(screenplay)
Mats Wahl		(novel "Den Osynlige")

Produced by
Gary Barber	....	producer
William S. Beasley	....	executive producer
Roger Birnbaum	....	producer
Neal Edelstein	....	producer
Jonathan Glickman	....	producer
Mike Macari	....	producer
Peter Possne	....	executive producer
Rebekah Rudd	....	co-producer
Erin Stam	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Marco Beltrami

Cinematography by
Gabriel Beristain		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Conrad Smart

Casting by
Juel Bestrop
Seth Yanklewitz

Production Design by
Carlos Barbosa

Art Direction by
Michael N. Wong		(as Michael Norman Wong)

Set Decoration by
Peter Lando

Costume Design by
Tish Monaghan

Makeup Department
Monica Huppert	....	makeup artist
Debra Wiebe	....	hair stylist
Nicholas Podbrey	....	special effects makeup coordinator (uncredited)

Production Management
William S. Beasley	....	unit production manager
Abby Callahan	....	post-production supervisor (as Avigail Callahan)
Jeffrey Chernov	....	executive in charge of production: Spyglass Entertainment
Yvonne Melville	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Scott J. Ateah	....	second unit director (as Scott Ateah)
Chad Belair	....	trainee assistant director
Molly Clayton	....	trainee assistant director
Adrian Diepold	....	third assistant director
Cindy Smith	....	second assistant director
Pete Whyte	....	first assistant director

Art Department
John Alvarez	....	assistant art director (as James J. Alvarez)
Allan Burdett	....	construction coordinator (as Alan D. Burdett)
Haida Harper	....	assistant property master
Leah Hong	....	graphic designer
Bryan Korenberg	....	property master
Kathy Linder	....	set supervisor
Jim Ramsay	....	set designer
Andrew Reid	....	assistant set decorator (as Andrew Eden Reid)
Mark Soparlo	....	assistant art director (as Mark M. Sopario)
Mario Tomas-Niedworok	....	scenic artist (as Mario Tomas)
James Doh	....	storyboard artist (uncredited)
Tiara Motem	....	property buyer (uncredited)

Sound Department
Gregg Barbanell	....	foley artist
Paul Berolzheimer	....	sound editor
Bob Bowman	....	assistant sound editor
Wendy Czajkowsky	....	adr mixer
David Lee Fein	....	foley artist
Stephen Hunter Flick	....	sound designer (as Stephen Flick)
Aaron Glascock	....	sound re-recording mixer
Aaron Glascock	....	supervising sound editor
Dave Griffiths	....	boom operator
Eric Cameron Hosmer	....	foley recordist
David Jobe	....	foley mixer
Doc Kane	....	adr mixer
Vanessa Lapato	....	dialogue editor
Tim LeBlanc	....	sound re-recording mix assistant
Wayne Lemmer	....	assistant sound editor
Linda Lew	....	foley recordist
Skip Lievsay	....	sound re-recording mixer
Michael W. Mitchell	....	sound editor
Piero Mura	....	sound editor
Angelo Palazzo	....	sound editor
Patrick Ramsay	....	sound mixer
Kira Roessler	....	dialogue editor (as Kira)
Curt Schulkey	....	sound re-recording mixer
Curt Schulkey	....	supervising sound editor
Naan Spiess	....	cableperson
John Joseph Thomas	....	sound editor
Ed Callahan	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)
Kevin Globerman	....	digital recordist (uncredited)
Oscar Mitt	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)
David Williams	....	dialogue editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Rory Cutler	....	special effects coordinator
Kevin Carter	....	special effects contact lenses (uncredited)
Ian Korver	....	special effects assistant (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Billy Barnhart	....	I/O manager: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Billy Barnhart	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Jamie Baxter	....	digital compositor: Custom Film Effects
Ryan Beadle	....	digital I/O: Custom Film Effects
Joseph Brattesani	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects (as Joey Brattesani)
Steve Caldwell	....	digital compositor: Custom Film Effects
Stuart Cripps	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Dennis Dorney	....	digital editorial: Custom Film Effects
Mark Dornfeld	....	visual effects supervisor: Custom Film Effects
Shelly Dutcher	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Michele Ferrone	....	producer: visual effects, Custom Film Effects
Adam Gass	....	digital editorial: Custom Film Effects
R.J. Harbour	....	digital compositor: Custom Film Effects
Shaina Holmes	....	digital compositor: Custom Film Effects
Shaina Holmes	....	digital coordinator: Custom Film Effects
Kristin Johnson	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Eric Jordan	....	systems administrator: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Nicholas Kim	....	digital compositor: Custom Film Effects
Christopher Kutcka	....	digital imaging supervisor: Technicolor Digital Intermediates (as Chris Kutcka)
Margaux Mackay	....	visual effects producer: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Gray Marshall	....	visual effects supervisor: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Lori C. Miller	....	digital art supervisor: Custom Film Effects (as Lori Miller)
Jennifer Mizener	....	visual effects producer: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Lillani E. Moran	....	visual effects coordinator: Custom Film Effects
Erin L. Nelson	....	digital restoration
Jeff Olm	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Laurie Powers	....	digital art supervisor: Custom Film Effects
Mark Sawicki	....	digital compositor: Custom Film Effects
Trent Shumway	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Colleen Smith-Brattesani	....	compositor: Gray Matter Visual Effects (as Colleen Smith)
Wilson Tang	....	digital restoration
Amani Williams	....	digital compositor: Custom Film Effects
Zac Chowdhury	....	digital artist (uncredited)
Sam Dabbs	....	compositor (uncredited)
Chris Dawson	....	motion control camera operator (uncredited)
Jeremy Lang	....	head of information technology: Custom Film Effects (uncredited)
Mike Leben	....	motion control operator (uncredited)

Stunts
Brett Armstrong	....	stunts
Mark Ashbeth	....	stunts
Scott J. Ateah	....	stunt coordinator (as Scott Ateah)
Clint Carleton	....	stunts
Mike Carpenter	....	stunts
Mark Chin	....	stunts
Garvin Cross	....	stunts
Crystal Dalman	....	stunts
Ryan Ennis	....	stunts
Corbin Fox	....	stunts
Rikki Gagne	....	stunts
Corry Glass	....	stunts
Lars Grant	....	stunts
Rob Hayter	....	stunts
Cody Laudan	....	stunts
Randy Lee	....	stunts
Daniel B. Melles	....	stunts
Anthony Moyer	....	stunts
Jennifer Mylrea	....	stunts
Jim Orava	....	stunts (as Jim Orawa)
Gerald Paetz	....	stunts
Simon Pidgeon	....	stunts
Dan Redford	....	stunts
Jeff Sanca	....	stunts
Darryl Scheelar	....	stunts
Todd Scott	....	stunts
Grant Smith	....	stunts
Kimani Ray Smith	....	stunts
Larissa Stadnichuk	....	stunts
Heath Stevenson	....	stunts
Lori Stewart	....	stunts
Owen Walstrom	....	stunts
Rob Wilton	....	stunts
Clint Carleton	....	stunt double: Justin Chatwin (uncredited)
Corry Glass	....	stunt double: Margarita Leveiva (uncredited)
Rob Hayter	....	stunt double: Callum Keith Rennie (uncredited)
Larissa Stadnichuk	....	stunt double: Margarita Levieva (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Sandes Ashe	....	first assistant camera
Kevin Black	....	key grip
John Clothier	....	camera operator
John Dekker	....	chief lighting technician (as John C. Dekker)
Rusty Deluce	....	first assistant "a" camera: second unit
Toby Gorman	....	lighting technician
Courtney Graham	....	second assistant camera
Doane Gregory	....	still photographer
Bill Molnar	....	best boy grip
Randal W. Morton	....	second assistant camera (as Randal Morton)
Cam North	....	first assistant camera
Robert L. O'Hara	....	dolly grip
Christopher Reusing	....	best boy electric
Jason Weir	....	best boy electric
Ken Decker	....	generator operator (uncredited)
Sacha Fassaert	....	underwater assistant camera (uncredited)
Seth Hettrick	....	key rigging grip (uncredited)
Steve Koster	....	aerial director of photography (uncredited)
Josh Lovig	....	rigging grip (uncredited)
John Trapman	....	camera operator: Wescam camera (uncredited)
Gary Viola	....	camera operator: "b" camera (uncredited)
Lance White	....	digital video assist operator (uncredited)
Steven J. Winslow	....	aerial camera technician: Wescam camera (uncredited)

Animation Department
Corey Bramall	....	digital artist
John Robson	....	animator: titles

Casting Department
Ruthie Brownfield	....	casting associate
James Moore	....	casting assistant
Jacquelyn Palmquist	....	casting assistant
Stephanie Pheifer	....	casting assistant (as Stephanie Pfeifer)
Heike Brandstatter	....	casting: Vancouver (uncredited)
Coreen Mayrs	....	casting: Vancouver (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Kathy Linder	....	costume supervisor
Karin Nosella	....	assistant costume designer
Jody Leanne Petford	....	costumer: truck

Editorial Department
Tony Bacigalupi	....	first assistant editor
Jill Bogdanowicz	....	digital film colorist: Technicolor Digital Intermediates
Bob Peishel	....	digital intermediate producer: Technicolor Digital Intermediates
Giselle Ponce	....	apprentice editor
Everette Webber	....	digital intermediate conform & opticals: Technicolor Digital Intermediates
Lee Wimer	....	color timer

Music Department
William Boston	....	orchestrator (as Bill Boston)
Angie Correa	....	music coordinator
Chris Cozens	....	auricle control systems
Rossano Galante	....	orchestrator
Isobel Griffiths	....	music contractor
Nick Ingman	....	conductor
John Kurlander	....	score mixer
John Kurlander	....	score recordist
Kate McCombs	....	music coordinator
Dana Niu	....	orchestrator
Jenny O'Grady	....	choir master
Alexandra Patsavas	....	music supervisor
Lise Richardson	....	music editor
Buck Sanders	....	score co-producer
Jill Streeter	....	music preparation (as Jill Streater)
Philip Tallman	....	music editor
Marcus Trumpp	....	orchestrator (as Marcus Trumpt)
Rachel Weston	....	musician: solo soprano
Booker White	....	music preparation
Gavin Wright	....	concert master
Marcus Trumpp	....	composer: additional music (uncredited)
Andrea von Foerster	....	music coordinator (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Mark Hoeppner	....	driver
Wayne Power	....	transportation captain (as Wayne Newfi Power)
Miroslaw Syta	....	driver
Rob Vreugde	....	transportation coordinator
Larry Tardif	....	driver: insert car (uncredited)

Other crew
Max Armstrong	....	pre-vizualization technician
Anzhey Barantsevich	....	controller: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Debbie Barlow	....	assistant accountant
Andrew Bronstein	....	assistant production coordinator
Rich Brown	....	assistant accountant
Richard C. Burton	....	stand-in
Kim Buttlar	....	executive coordinator: Gary Barber
Simon Carrigan	....	first assistant coordinator
Jeffrey Chernov	....	production executive
Kimberly Clarke	....	background coordinator
Mathew Collings	....	location production assistant
Geoffrey Dodd	....	location production assistant (as Geoffrey James Dodd)
Ian Doig	....	animal coordinator
Karen Eisenstadt	....	production accountant
Julia Frittaion	....	unit publicist
Sean Grant	....	assistant location manager
Charles Haugk	....	product placement (as Charlie Haugk)
Louise M. Hetherington	....	craft service (as Louise Heatherington)
Louise M. Hetherington	....	first aid (as Louise Heatherington)
Krista Huppert	....	accounting clerk
Aaron Janus	....	assistant: Jonathan Glickman
Alexandra Jastrzembska	....	production assistant
Dylan Jenkinson	....	second assistant production coordinator
Joanne Kennett	....	alternating accounting clerk
Sue Kittler	....	location scout
Jakub Kowalski	....	location production assistant
Ashley Kravitz	....	rights clearances
Natalie Bae Lauzon	....	production office coordinator: Gray Matter Visual Effects
Glynis Lynn	....	assistant: David S. Goyer
Grace MacLeod	....	animal trainer
Gwen MacQueen	....	alternating accounting clerk
Danny McWilliams	....	location manager
Matej Mecar	....	photo double
Jennifer Metcalfe	....	production coordinator
Janet D. Munro	....	script supervisor
Willa Potter	....	location production assistant: Washington D.C.
Benjamin R. Reder	....	production counsel
Michael Riley	....	title designer
Michael Roberts	....	assistant location manager
Weatie Rosenlehner	....	assistant: David S. Goyer
Stephane Savoie	....	photo double
Stephane Savoie	....	stand-in
Tara A. Senior	....	production counsel
Ryan Steacy	....	armorer
Marlena Thomas	....	executive coordinator: Roger Birnbaum
Kyle 'Eightball' Weldon	....	trainee location manager
Fleur Western	....	key office production assistant: reshoots
Tamara Grace Wiebe	....	office production assistant
Shayne A. Wilson	....	assistant: William S. Beasley
Peter Zimmerman	....	location production assistant
Brian Bruskrud	....	finance executive (uncredited)
Scott Steyns	....	playback coordinator (uncredited)
Shayne A. Wilson	....	script and clearance coordinator (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Hollywood Pictures
• Limbo Productions
• Spyglass Entertainment
• Macari/Edelstein
• Sonet Film AB

Distributors

• Buena Vista Pictures (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• Hollywood Pictures (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Village Films (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2007) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2007) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Hollydan Works (2008) (Serbia) (DVD)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2008) (Japan) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Gray Matter FX (visual effects) (as Gray Matter Visual Effects)
• Custom Film Effects (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Air Lyndhurst Studios  score recorded at
• Buena Vista Negative Cutting  negative cutting
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  cranes and dollies
• Hollywood Records  soundtrack
• Ocean Way Studios  score mixed at
• Panavision  cameras and lenses
• Pictorvision  aerial camera system
• Reder & Feig  production legal services
• Shine  main and end title sequences designed and produced by
• Technicolor Digital Intermediates  digital intermediate
• Technicolor  prints

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:

Revealing mistakes: When you see Pete looking at the ticket, you can see that the band-aid is on his right thumb, even though he was cut on his left thumb.

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:

References "Sesame Street" (1969)

Soundtrack:

02.20 Boy

Intriguing Premise Completely Wasted

While the idea of having someone linger between life and death, invisible to the world at large, is intriguing, it gets lost in a confusing morass of a script here. "The Invisible" features one of those stereotypical small female "tough guys" who are somehow capable of not only ordering larger males around to do their bidding, but also to physically intimidate and beat them up. Wow- we've never seen anything like that before from Hollywood! Annie, the tough high school girl who always wears a stocking cap on her pretty little head, is evidently the leader of a ridiculous "gang," which consists of three other males. Two of them are fellow students, who somehow obey her orders (why?) The other is an adult, her boyfriend, who is on probation and obviously has a criminal past. Annie is mad- you know, the teen angst we've seen from Hollywood ever since "Rebel Without A Cause." The only rationale behind her anger, and subsequent life of crime, is that her mother died. Her father is shown only as a laborer who works nights; he doesn't seem to be a bad guy, but Annie tells him at one point that she plans to come back and kill him. Huh? Motive? Yes, her stepmother seems irresponsible, and doesn't appear to be parenting Annie's younger brother properly, but really there is nothing in her home life to justify her perpetual, Brando-like sneer, or the crimes she commits.

There are so many absurd scenes in this film. How about the cops who question Annie, after they've found stolen jewelry in her locker? Annie treats the cops with disdain, as she does everyone, and is totally fearless under their questioning. This questioning is almost nonexistent, and after a few softballs, she simply walks out. Huh? Why wasn't she charged with anything? If she was, how did she get out? Did her incredibly poor family place bail somehow? Then there is the male cop questioning Annie's adult boyfriend. This cop doesn't even touch on the issue of statutory rape. He doesn't realize that this boyfriend, who is obviously an adult (probably at least 25), is engaged in an illegal relationship with this underage high school girl? Nope- nothing said about that, just more typical Hollywood cop mumbo-jumbo. Later, Annie will overpower this much larger, criminal adult boyfriend, while he is armed, and then make a few amazing, superhero type jumps as a slew of police officers simply watch her passively, refusing to chase her at all. One of the most ridiculous scenes I've ever seen in any film.

Of all the odious messages "The Invisible" sends the audience, the most twisted is the tired old bad girl is actually good at heart nonsense. This used to be a staple of film scripts, but almost always with the bad character being the bad boy, who somehow attracts the sweet heroine away from the boring boy next door. No telling how many girls absorbed that disastrous message and left a nice guy for some future alcoholic- wife beater, because Hollywood basically told them it was the "cool" thing to do. Anyhow, Annie is shown to be actually a good kid at heart, even if she is behind the attempted murder of the main character, who inexplicably ends up loving her anyway. She also kills her boyfriend, tries to kill the main characters best friend, and commits several other crimes. But, she does have a soft spot for her kid brother, so how could we not fall in love with her? Finally, the movie climaxes with a totally unexplained and absurd gimmick whereby Annie is the only one who can bring the hero Nick back to life. This is done by her talking to him as he lays unconscious in a hospital bed, and then laying down next to him and bleeding all over him (she had been shot earlier by her boyfriend, but seeing as how she is so tough and all, Annie is able to walk around for hours, and even evade the police during a tired, hackneyed car chase scene, with a gunshot wound to her abdomen). Yes, this makes perfect sense. Of course, how else could the hero be saved? Overall, this is an unoriginal, horrible film.