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Imagine That
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Directed by	Karey Kirkpatrick
Produced by	Lorenzo di Bonaventura Ed Solomon
Written by	Ed Solomon Chris Matheson
Starring	Eddie Murphy Thomas Haden Church Yara Shahidi Ronny Cox Nicole Ari Parker and Martin Sheen
Music by	Mark Mancina
Cinematography	John Lindley
Editing by	David Moritz
Studio	Nickelodeon Movies
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	June 12, 2009 (USA) August 14, 2009 (UK) [1]
Running time	107 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$55,000,000 [2]
Gross revenue	$16,135,104 [2]

Imagine That is a 2009 comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Martin Sheen, and Yara Shahidi. Imagine That takes place in Denver, Colorado, notable because of the skyline and landmarks. It centers on the relationship between a workaholic father Eddie Murphy, and his daughter Yara Shahidi, whose imaginary world becomes the solution to her father's success. Among the cast is veteran actor Ronny Cox who last starred with Eddie Murphy in his blockbuster series, Beverly Hills Cop.^[3]

Plot

A financial executive, Evan Danielson (Eddie Murphy) can't stop his career downspiral. However, it turns out that his young daughter, with the help of her magical blanket and her imaginary friends, is capable of predicting which stocks are good investments. Meanwhile, his scheming co-worker Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Haden Church) tries to figure out Evan's secret to his newly found success.

Olivia (Yara Shahidi) is a girl who we think has divorced parents and spends most time living with her mother (Nicole Ari Parker), rarely with her father. Her father, Evan (Eddie Murphy) is a workaholic father and doesn't know anything about her daughter, ignoring her, and telling her to stop talking to her "magic" blanket so called "Goo-Gaa". Evan works at a company that he has been at for 8 and a half years and has a competitor, Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Haden Church). On a day Evan has a conference, he has to bring Olivia since he cannot leave her alone at home. While Evan is just warming up, he cannot find his work papers for the conference. He soon finds out that Olivia drew picturs and cut patterns on his work papers and gets angry. Johnny steals the spotlight so Evan gets even angrier and makes up stories about the other companies relating to what Olivia did to the papers. Evan coincidentally said everything about the story true. And gets a raise. He asks Olivia how she knew everything and said she asked Goo-Gaa.

Music

The score to Imagine That was composed by Mark Mancina, who had previously worked with director Karey Kirkpatrick on Over the Hedge. He recorded his score with an 83-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.^[4]

Home Video release

Imagine That was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 13, 2009. ^[5]

Reception

The film is a co-production between Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. Because Hotel for Dogs was released by DreamWorks instead of Paramount, Paramount reunited with Nickelodeon to co-produce the film.

The film received mixed reviews from critics. ^[6] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 38% of critics gave positive reviews based on 73 reviews with an average score of 5.1/10. ^[7] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average of 53% based on 22 reviews. ^[6]

On its opening weekend, the film opened #6 grossing $5,503,519 in 3,008 theaters with an $1,830 average. ^[8] As of August 9 2009, the film has grossed $16,135,104 worldwide. ^[2] This opened similar to Eddie Murphy's last summer movie Meet Dave which also opened poorly its opening week.

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