An Invisible Sign

I was really looking forward to this film. It seemed to be fun and was one of those movies that had a lot of potential. Well, it was terrible, slow, boring, and had no plot. Don't waste your time or money!

Would give a full five but the iTunes download only downloaded half the movie and I paid $9.99. I tried to report the problem but could not get thur, but had no problem getting the writing a review part. Unsure whom to contact so let it be, only now I see the price reduced. Going to try Hastings and rent.

well maybe not but she is great in this one - i was surprised how good she is in this romcom dramedy - not what you would typically expect from her but satisfying in that it is really well done!

What a waste. Not good at all. Tries to lure geeks in with the math angle. Don't bother.

I had to turn it off after 5 minutes--had to. This is beyond superficial. She keeps tapping inanimate objects, and out pours the poorest animation of completely irrelevant numbers--ever. This movie is an insult to people who actually appreciate the logic and discipline that math requires of us. Reminds me of the Eva Longoria interview on Piers Morgan, where the chick claims she's really into history and political science now (as if those are substantive subjects, but whatever), and when Piers asks any question related to those two things, "Oh, well... I don't think it's... there's just so much misinformation out there... it's really hard to say." Or when she claimed she spoke French, and Piers asked her a question in French, and all she said in reply was "Oui" with a nervous, embarrassed laugh. Posers. Phonies. Idiots. Rent this only if you want to be insulted.

This movie is the love child of Juno and A Beautiful Mind--if that child had severe birth defects. Jessica Alba's acting was distracting. Several of the plot elements were also distracting--and I look for off-best story telling. I did appreciate the genre-bending efforts, but they were minimal. The actress who plays the young Mona did a noteworthy job. I don't mind the 10 Bucks; it's not a complete waste. I did wish greater emphasis was given to the mental illness, and that they did away with trying to make it look cute. The trailer is misleading in the regard. Knowing what I know now, I would not have rented/watched this movie. 3/10 a disappointment.

This movie doesn't bring anything new to the indie cinema world, which has already had some clever math flicks and more than enough awkward romances. Think "Amalie" with worse acting meets "Life of Pie" with less plot. If you find the idea of a geeky Jessica Alba who loves math to hard to resist, be warned: In this film the whole is definitely less than the sum of the parts.

I really appreciated this film, and thought it was very well done... It's based on the novel _An Invisible Sign of My Own_ by Aimee Bender, which was a favorite of mine growing up, and I was not disappointed by the screen adaption. it dealt with complex and tragic issues intelligently, not in the usual Hollywood way of high drama and tear jerking music. I think all young women or anyone touched by mental illness or tragic loss could relate (which is everyone as far as I can tell). anyways, i'm stuck home with the flu and so happy to have found this film!

There has been a sort of trend here in West LA, probably everywhere else too, where somehow it's fashionable to be a geek, or a nerd or a dork. All the cool kids are doing it. All the beautiful, athletic, perfect social butterfly, hip kids are geeking out. Well, they are still being uninteresting shallow fashionable morons, but they look geeky while doing it. I can't wait for it to stop. That's what this movie is. It takes all the right geeky ingredients (animation, math, ocd, social disfunction, family tragedy), and mixes them into a perfectly superficial soup. The only thing more shallow than the characters are the numbers. Wow... that was bad.

The movie is $9.99 because it's not in theaters yet and I really enjoyed it. It's nice to see jessica alba in a different kind of role where she's not playing a sexy femme fatale in skin tight dresses but is instead a math geek...who would have thought she'd pull it off so well.