Synopsis
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother looks to Phoebe herself for inspiration.
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Cast
- Elle FanningPhoebe Lichten
- Felicity HuffmanHillary Lichten
- Patricia ClarksonMiss Dodger
- Bill PullmanPeter Lichten
- Campbell ScottPrincipal Davis
- Ian CollettiJamie
- Bailee MadisonOlivia Lichten
- Madhur JaffreyMiss Reiter
- Mackenzie MiloneSally
- Austin WilliamsTommy
Recommandations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The mesmerizing performance of Fanning as the gifted and troubled young Phoebe sparks the picture. - 75
The A.V. Club
There's too much "problem, solution" to Phoebe, although the movie's anxieties are believable enough to earns the moments of uplift. The film may be too concerned with being a crowd-pleaser, but it least it makes the crowd suffer a little along the way. - 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
There's an unconvincing warm, fuzzy happy ending, in which recognition is treated as cure and understanding heals all. But, until then, Phoebe in Wonderland is an involving and empathetic drama of mothers and daughters. - 70
Film Threat
Director Daniel Barnz produces an enjoyable film that reminds us that imagination is a precious commodity which adults need to nurture by allowing kids to jump. - 70
Village Voice
Writer-director Daniel Barnz's film is profoundly stirring, if also occasionally maddening. - 63
Boston Globe
Phoebe in Wonderland gradually loses its grip on tone and believability, climaxing with a show-must-go-on moment that's just plain silly. Thankfully, Barnz knows exactly where to end his film: on the face of a girl, and an actress, at the crossroads. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
As the school drama teacher who tries to unlock ''the real,'' Patricia Clarkson makes high theatrical solemnity funny. - 40
Variety
Partly produced by Lifetime, the pic attempts to elevate the disease-of-the-week movie into a moral dialectic between conformity and imagination.
