Synopsis
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
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Cast
- Shirley HendersonDebbie
- Gina McKeeNadia
- Molly ParkerMolly
- Ian HartDan
- John SimmEddie
- Stuart TownsendTim
- Kika MarkhamEileen
- Jack ShepherdBill
- Enzo CilentiDarren
- Sarah-Jane PottsMelanie
Recommendations
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In Wonderland, Winterbottom has found a script worthy of his passion. - 88
Chicago Tribune
One of the best realistic dramas of the year. - 80
Village Voice
There's not a false note among the performances: Henderson, Hart, Shepherd, Markham, and in particular McKee add unspoken complexities to their portrayals. - 75
Baltimore Sun
Winterbottom ("Welcome to Sarajevo," "Go Now") has filmed Wonderland with a hand-held 16 millimeter camera, lending the production an air of scrappy immediacy that is often arrestingly at odds with Michael Nyman's overheated musical score. - 75
Boston Globe
Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it. - 70
Chicago Reader
As an interweave of crosscut miniplots, this isn't nearly as interesting or as pleasurable as Jeremy Podeswa's recent "The Five Senses." - 63
USA Today
If Wonderland is difficult to embrace, it is easy to admire. - 63
New York Daily News
That (cinéma-vérité) feel is absolutely convincing, as are the performances.
