things out: His coach is also his dad,
who descends into a stupor, insisting on setting a place at the dinner table for his lost son. His sister, Penny
(ex-Dawson's Creeker Michelle Williams), returns from college, seemingly nonchalant about the situation. The only ones really dealing with it are
Tim and the mother, Sandy (Sigourney Weaver), who seem to share a bond unique in their family.

Imaginary Heroes is the kind of modest indie (or "indie" since, let's be honest, most of the time when people invoke
that word in relation to the movies they have no idea where the money trail actually leads) that's supposed to be superior to
Hollywood movies because it's more real, because it portrays the rhythms and emotions of everyday life. There are plenty of times when
that cliché holdsmoney got into the hands of the people (stars Reems and
Linda Lovelace, writer-director Gerard Damiano) who created it.

Inside Deep Throat conveys more than a little nostalgia for the supposed golden age of porn, when the medium briefly emerged
as a form composed of stories on real film shown in real theaters to a non-raincoat crowd -- first Central Park socialites, then
Hollywood stars, then Middle America. Some attention is paid to anti-porn feminists, but the film seems to side with Alan Dershowitz's highly
arguable assertion that feminists were the most oppressive censors of all. Instead, the film's head and heart are with Norman Mailer,
who expresses regret that, instead of emerging into a new art form, porn devolved into a mediocre commodity, a lament familiar from
fictional account Boogie Nights.

Some argue (and it's