Jessica Alba’s luscious hair and pouty lips have landed her numerous eye-candy roles and magazine covers. Now the oft glamorous actress looks to take on new terrain by donning a frumpy frock and limp pigtails to play an emotionally stunted math whiz in the upcoming drama The Invisible Sign. Based on the book An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender, the film marks the narrative debut of Marilyn Agrelo, the documentarian behind Mad Hot Ballroom, and features J.K Simmons and Chris Messina.
Below we have the trailer which features some awkward but adorable ingénue, an aggressive but affable suitor, and a pint-sized paramour getting to second base. Check it out:
An Invisible Sign by ThePlaylist
Young Mona idolizes her father, a brilliant mathematician. When he suddenly demonstrates signs of mental illness, Mona begins to obsess about numbers, using them to interpret an unpredictable and threatening world. Now an adult (Jessica Alba), Mona’s old superstitions and compulsive behaviors continue to flourish, but a new job as an elementary school math teacher (a position she both relishes and dreads), may force her out of her protective shell. With imagination and humor, as well as a special sensitivity to the realities of mental illness, AN INVISIBLE SIGN carries a magic all its own.
The Invisible Sign is currently On Demand and will hit theaters May 6, 2011.
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