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Imagine That

Imagine That

Family · Comedy · Fantasy · 2009

A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.

Movie details

Imagine That

“What if your daughter's imagination... Was the secret to your success?”

2009 Family · Comedy · Fantasy 1h 47m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

5.6 / 10

16.7K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

41 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

54 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.0 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Imagine That?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Karey Kirkpatrick

Written by

Chris Matheson · Ed Solomon

Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy

Evan Danielson

Thomas Haden Church

Thomas Haden Church

Johnny Whitefeather

Yara Shahidi

Yara Shahidi

Olivia Danielson

Ronny Cox

Ronny Cox

Tom Stevens

Stephen Rannazzisi

Stephen Rannazzisi

Noah Kulick

Nicole Ari Parker

Nicole Ari Parker

Tricia Danielson

DeRay Davis

DeRay Davis

John Strother

Court is in session

Put Imagine That on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Big-Idea Head

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.