
An Invisible Sign
2010 · Movie · PG-13 · 96 min · ★ 5.2 · 28% critics
After a parent’s illness upends her life, a withdrawn young woman leans on math to make sense of the world. When she unexpectedly starts teaching children, she has to face their struggles as well as her own and slowly learn how to connect with life beyond numbers.
Also known as An Invisible Sign of My Own
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Details
- Years
- 2010
- Release date
- 2010-10-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Critic score
- 28/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.2/10 (118 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy offbeat, gentle dramas about personal growth, emotional healing, and unusual teachers; Not for you if you want realism, fast pacing, or easy-to-relate characters.
Pros: heartfelt tone; quirky charm; engaging math theme | Cons: uneven story; implausible moments; overly sweet ending
Themes
- mathematician
- elementary school
- math teacher
- scientist
- woman director
Cast & crew

Jessica Alba
as Mona Gray

Bailee Madison
as Young Mona

J.K. Simmons
as Mr. Jones

Chris Messina
as Ben Smith

Sonia Braga
as Mom

John Shea
as Dad

Sophie Nyweide
as Lisa Venus

Marylouise Burke
as Ms. Gelband

Ashlie Atkinson
as Lisa's Aunt

Crystal Bock
as Panida Saleswoman
Directed by Marilyn Agrelo