In the Realms of the Unreal Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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In the Realms of the Unreal

Release Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Director: Jessica Yu

Starring: Dakota Fanning • Henry Darger • Larry Pine

N/A Documentary 1 hr, 21 m

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Plot

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Plot: An innovative masterpiece that literally gives wings to one man's singular vision of an imaginary world. Henry Darger lived a reclusive life and died alone in a Catholic mission in 1973. For more than 60 years, he created a massive literary and graphic body of work, including The Realms of the Unreal, an epic, fifteen-thousand-page novel with hundreds of paintings that recounts the wars between nations on an enormous unnamed planet. Darger's keen sense of composition and vivid colors allowed him to create incredibly intense and beautiful illustrations which are often disturbingly violent. Consciously excluding art experts and psychologists, Yu presents impressions of Darger's work only from the people who knew him, letting the audience make up their own minds about the man. The film cleverly parallels his real life with his fantasies, making the oddness of his fantasy world more accessible.

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Top Cast

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Dakota Fanning
The Equalizer 3, Vicious
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Henry Darger
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Larry Pine
The Kill Room, Still Here

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The film's director Jessica Yu last directed Quiz Lady and Last Call At The Oasis. The film's writer Jessica Yu last wrote Last Call At The Oasis.

Director: Jessica Yu
Screenwriter: Jessica Yu
Producers: Sue West
Susan West
Jessica Yu

Studio: Wellspring Media
Production Companies: —

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Parent Rating: N/A Not available
Runtime: 1 hr, 21 m
Tagline: Not available
Also known as: Not available
Language: English

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In the Realms of the Unreal was released in on Wednesday, December 22, 2004. There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including The Phantom of the Opera, A Very Long Engagement and Meet the Fockers.

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