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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 20, 2001
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shirley Henderson, Molly Parker & Gina McKee | |
Performer: | Kika Markham, Jack Shepherd, Ian Hart, John Simm, David Fahm, Enzo Cilenti, Peter Marfleet & Stuart Townsend | |
Directed by | Michael Winterbottom | |
Edited by | Trevor Waite | |
Written by | Laurence Coriat | |
Director of Photography: | Sean Bobbitt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Movies like Wonderland invite me into the screen with them.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The 'oh, wow' irony of the street name seems to be the prime rationale for 'Wonderland' ...
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
...WONDERLAND offers an intriguing and exciting glimpse into the lives of a London family....This is exemplary...
Total Film
We've frankly heard it all before.
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Combustible Celluloid
The acting is as good as it can be under the strictures of the script; unfortunately there's not much to be done with this property.
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San Diego Metropolitan
Rating: 3/4 --
Wonderland is well crafted from the editing to the acting, but it often feels like a television pilot for a calculatedly hip soap opera.
Globe and Mail
Rating: 2/5 --
These are just a bunch of junkies killing each other and the aftermath.
Greenwich Village Gazette
Product Description:
Set in present-day London, Michael Winterbottom's WONDERLAND follows each of three generations of a family through one wintry November weekend during the city's traditional Bonfire Night celebration. Their respective places in life--from that of the mildly unhappy, aging parents (Kika Markham, Jack Shephard) to those of the three searching daughters and estranged son (Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Enzo Cilenti) to that of their young grandson--weave together in a vivid kaliedescope that is simultaneaously invigorating, depressing, challenging, and endearing.
Winterbottom's choice to film WONDERLAND on location in the pubs and streets of London in super-16mm, with a hand-held camera and natural lighting, gives the film a realism that is at once tragic and honest. Added to this is the entire cast, who embody their characters so completely that one might forget they're even acting. Michael Nyman's despondently blissful score appears under the sped up and slowed down images of a dreary London, boldly expressing the characters' inner melancholy, making WONDERLAND a film that retains a glimmer of hope even at its bleakest moments.
Winterbottom's choice to film WONDERLAND on location in the pubs and streets of London in super-16mm, with a hand-held camera and natural lighting, gives the film a realism that is at once tragic and honest. Added to this is the entire cast, who embody their characters so completely that one might forget they're even acting. Michael Nyman's despondently blissful score appears under the sped up and slowed down images of a dreary London, boldly expressing the characters' inner melancholy, making WONDERLAND a film that retains a glimmer of hope even at its bleakest moments.