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Imaginaerum (2012) on Netflix

NR20121h 26mDramaFantasyMusical

Thomas Whitman, a composer, lies in a coma after years of dementia, his mind back in childhood as a ten-year-old orphan. His estranged daughter Gem considers a do not resuscitate order.

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For years Thomas Whitman, a former musician, has lived with multi-infarct dementia, and now he lies in a coma. His estranged daughter Gem weighs a do not resuscitate order while his mind returns to childhood, where he lives again as a ten-year-old orphan. At the orphanage he meets a girl named Ann and comes to hold a snow globe with a dancing figurine inside it, Arabesque. A snowman called Mr. White carries him on a flight through the sky, and while he chases his father's airplane he loses his balance and drops into a strange landscape marked by an abandoned roller coaster track that represents his mind and his memories. A mechanic there calls the work of repairing the track useless. In the waking world, Gem reaches her father's house and meets Ann.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Imaginaerum (2012)

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  • Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen first pitched Imaginaerum as a music video for each of the thirteen songs on the band's album. Director Stobe Harju suggested adding dialogue and wrote a 70-page first draft of the screenplay instead, turning it into a full film.
  • The whole film was shot in just 18 days in late 2011, mostly in Montreal, Quebec, because Canada offers incentives to foreign movie productions.

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