Imagine That (DVD)

Imagine ThatLabel: Paramount Home EntertainmentDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Eddie Murphy stars as a successful finance executive who has more time for his blackberry than his seven-year-old daughter. When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts to go down the drain he finds the solution to all his problewms in his daughter's imaginary world. FROM AMAZON Imaginary friends and security blankets are common childhood fixations that parents spend a lot of time worrying about but how many parents become more obsessed with those imaginary worlds than their children? Evan Daniels played by the ever-hysterical Eddie Murphy is a part-time father full-time financial executive who has little time for his daughter Olivia (Yara Shahidi) and even less time for her imaginary friends and security blanket. When Evan's absentminded attention to Olivia's far-fetched stories combined with her ill-timed use of some important meeting notes as arts and crafts materials causes a huge blowup between father and daughter it also reveals an uncanny window into the financial world. Suddenly Evan becomes fixated on his daughter's imaginary playmates and will do anything including singing and dancing in public in exchange for the financial insight that yields him such great professional results. While Olivia loves her new relationship with her father her reliance on her imaginary friends deepens causing her teachers and mother much concern and she eventually begins to sense that her father may possibly care more for the information that he's receiving than for her. Meanwhile Evan pits his unconventional reliance on what he dubs his inner child against his co-worker Whitefeather's (Thomas Haden Church) unorthodox reliance on Indian legends and the two men turn their financial firm upside down and end up competing for the coveted position of chairman of the board. In the end Evan must make some tough choices about whether his job in the financial world is more important than his job as a father and Olivia will be forced to live with the consequences. The parenting dilemmas presented in this film are universal and kids and parents alike will laugh uproariously at the crazy antics of Eddie Murphy and Yara Shahidi while simultaneously discovering that good parenting doesn't always look like one might expect. (Ages 6 and older with parental guidance due to mild language and brief questionable behaviour) --Tami Horiuchi

"Imagine That (DVD) is ideal for families and children interested in learning about creativity, imagination, and how to open up their own imaginative worlds."