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Wonderland (1999) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Jul 28, 2000
• UK: 14 Jan 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 27, 2001
MPAA Rating
Rated R for some strong sexuality, and for language.
Running Time
1 hour, 48 minutes
Country UK
Studio BBC, Kismet Film Company, Polygram, Revolution Studios
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Wonderland
• Snarl Up (1998)
• Untitled Love Story (1998)
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Genre: Drama, Love, Urban, Marriage
Tagline: Everybody's looking for something.
Plot: Michael Winterbottom’s WONDERLAND is a grittily realistic drama that follows the members of one South London family over the course of a four day period. The parents, Eileen (Kika Markham) and Bill (Jack Shepherd), are defeated, weary rivals whose relationship has all but disintegrated. Their children are not much better off: Debbie (Shirley Henderson) is a foul-mouthed hairdresser with an eleven-year-old son, Jack (Peter Marfleet); Molly (Molly Parker) is about to have a baby with Eddie (John Simm), who has just become unemployed; and Nadia (Gina McKee) is a lonely waitress who has stooped to meeting prospective mates through the personals. As the weekend unfolds, the sisters walk through the sad streets of London, waiting for happiness to return to their lives.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
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Shirley Henderson
Trainspotting, Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason |
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 | Stuart Townsend
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Queen of the Damned, Trapped |
 | Gina McKee
Notting Hill, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Croupier | Ian Hart
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Finding Neverland, Enemy of the State | John Simm
24 Hour Party People, Human Traffic, Miranda | Kika Markham
Outland, Killing Me Softly, Deux anglaises et le continent, Les | |
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