Daniel Isn't Real (2019) (original) (raw)

A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.

A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope. (less)

Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer
Writers: Brian DeLeeuw, Adam Egypt Mortimer
Starring: Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane, Mary Stuart Masterson, Hannah Marks, Chukwudi Iwuji
Producers: Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen, Elijah Wood

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Review by Brian Orndorf, December 5, 2019

8 / 10

�Daniel Isn�t Real� is probably the film 1991�s �Drop Dead Fred� should�ve been. Instead of offering mind-numbing monkey business with the premise of an imaginary friend returning to the adult life of his inventor, �Daniel Isn�t Real� goes pitch-black with the concept, treating the invisible partner as a driving force of encroaching madness. Co-writers Adam Egypt Mortimer (who also directs) and Brian DeLeeuw (adapting his 2009 novel) don�t mess around with the story, transforming one young man�s fight for sanity into a violent journey that crosses through mental illness, cosmic dangers, and de ...read more...

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