Daniel Isn't Real (2019) Reviews & Ratings

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Daniel Isn't Real reviews

Daniel Isn't Real holds a 6.1/10 average from 249 TMDB ratings.

‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ (based off of Brian DeLeeuw’s novel ‘In This Way I Was Saved’) shares a lot of similarities with David Fincher's ‘Fight Club’, which followed a powerless office worker who happens to meet an assertive friend who helps him become more confident only for everything to get out of hand. I also kept thinking of Curtis Hanson’s underrated ‘Bad Influence’ with James Spader and Rob Lowe, Robert Mulligan’…
— SWITCH. (7/10)

**It's not original, it's not remarkable, but it was a pretty decent job considering the budget and people involved.** This is another one of those movies that I caught, by chance, starting on TV, and that I decided to watch. So I didn't have high expectations nor did I know exactly what I was going to find. When it was over, I can say that I reasonably liked what I saw: it intelligently explores the human mind and…
— Filipe Manuel Neto (5/10)

A troubled college freshman resurrects his imaginary friend to help him cope with a violent trauma.

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