Imaginary Heroes is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Dan Harris. It focuses on the traumatic effect the suicide of the elder son has on a suburban family. Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results. His mother Sandy tries to keep the lines of communication open with younger son Tim while easing her emotional pain with marijuana. Father Ben, a perfectionist who... worshiped Matt as much as he ignored Tim, insists on continuing to place a meal at the dinner table for the dead boy and begins to drink heavily. Eventually, without telling his wife, he takes a leave of absence from work and spends his days lost in reverie on a park bench. Tim, always in the shadows as the smaller, unathletic, less accomplished "other brother," struggles to get through school while trying to resist the recreational drugs his best friend Kyle Dwyer is always offering him and contemplating having sex with classmate Steph Connors.
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| Release date: | December 17, 2004 |
| Directed by: | Dan Harris |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Moshe Diamant, Frank Hübner, Art Linson, Gina Resnick, Denise Shaw, Illana Diamant |
| Editor: | James Lyons |
| Music by: | Deborah Lurie |
| Cinematography: | Tim Orr |
| Screenplay by: | Dan Harris |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |