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Bogus (1996)
★ 5.8 · 244 ratings on TMDB
A comedy about losing your heart, finding your inner child and meeting the one friend you've always tried to avoid.
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
DirectorNorman Jewison
The emergence reading
In Bogus, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “imaginary friend therapy”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, family, imagination, adoption, identity.
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