Daniel Isn’t Real
Directed by ADAM EGYPT MORTIMER
Starring MILES ROBBINS, PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER, SASHA LANE
Released 7 JANUARY
t is all in the title. Lots of films – which won’t be named here to, with novelist Brian de Leeuw) that, well, Daniel isn’t real. Rather, he is conjured as a playmate, confidante and guide by the lonely young Luke (Griffin Robert Faulkner) at a moment when he is having to deal not only with the breakup of his parents and the breakdown of his schizophrenic mother Claire (Mary Stuart Masterson), but also with the trauma of witnessing an arbitrary act of extreme violence. A sly, cocky troublemaker, Daniel (Nathan Reid) plays id to Luke’s ego, until Luke, led dangerously astray, is forced to lock this part of himself away.
