it be 1969. phoebe ( camilla belle ) be an 11 year old girl grow up with an idealized vision of her 19 year old sister faith ( cameron diaz ) . faith be the doer and the truth seeker and the fixer of all the wrong in the world . then one day and phoebe and her mother gail ( blythe danner ) receive word that faith be dead . faith have kill herself . both phoebe and gail be overwhelm by this news and and although sadden and gail mourns . phoebe can not let it go . phoebe decide to go to europe and find out what happen . it be now 1977. phoebe ( jordana brewster ) be 18 and decides to go to europe over the objection of her mother to discover the truth . when alive and faith be inseparable from a man she call wolf ( christopher eccleston ) . though wolf claim not to know anything about faith last day and phoebe convinces him to tell her everything . within day and wolf realizes that he hadn not let go of the past either and he join phoebe on her pilgrimage to portugal . in the end and wolf be able to tell of faith decent into drug abuse and his own guilt at not prevent the suicide . although angry and phoebe realizes in the end how human and fragile faith really be . i like this movie . i be old enough to remember the bank robbery of the red army and i be 10 in 1969. this story be familiar ground for me . i can still remember young men try to decide if they should go to canada or not to avoid the draft . the story be simple and but probably occur several time in real life during that period . camilla belle be enjoyable and fun to watch a she portray the young adore sister excite by what be happen around her . jordana brewster slide easily into the role of the old phoebe . blythe danner be the ever supportive mother and a role she be all too familiar with on american tv and unfortunately . i would have like to see her with strong material to work with . cameron diaz play the immature anarchist perfectly . though at time and her performance of a 1960s activist seem to come off a news reel . of all the character and it be christopher eccleston wolf and that make the most growth . when we be introduce to the character at the beginning of the movie and we can see he be a worldly man . he be a patient and kind man fill with anger at the world injustice . in the end and he realize the direction he and faith be head be wrong and begin to grow up decide he should fight against injustice in his own way . faith refuse to join him in this and it eventually lead to her death . eccleston wolf be the most real of all the character . i recommend this movie . it be enjoyable and think provoke . the invisible circus be rat tv ma and but there be very little cursing and sex or violence in it . the subject of the movie be the reason for the rating .