Wonderful World (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Magnolia
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Kenneth Williams, Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan & Philip Baker Hall | |
Directed by | Joshua Goldin | |
Screenwriting by | Joshua Goldin | |
Composition by | Craig Richey & Dan Zanes | |
Director of Photography: | Daniel Shulman |
Entertainment Reviews:
While this movie is earnest and well-intentioned, it doesn't quite work.
At the Movies
Rating: 3/5 --
Soft sells its cliches so effectively and without guile they seem fresh in the telling. Then again, maybe you can never overuse the concept of people learning how to be happy.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The movie itself is a little too tidy, a little too determined to convey a lesson, but the character sticks with you.
Seattle Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If ... Wonderful World seem(s) a little tired, the film still has its own low-key pleasures, thanks to Broderick's restrained performance and a script that punctuates the inescapable saccharine of its storyline with tart little bursts of anger.
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Washington Post
Rating: C --
It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
A touching spiritual drama about a cynical man and his auspicious relationship with a wise Senegalese brother and his beautiful sister.
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Spirituality and Practice
Matches every cliché with a bit of melodrama.
Washington City Paper
Product Description:
A pessimistic pothead struggles with his own cynicism after his Senegalese roommate is stricken ill and an insensitive municipal employee inadvertently exacerbates an already desperate situation. Ben Singer (Matthew Broderick) wanted to be a children's folk singer; instead he's become a career proofreader and the world's worst weekend dad. But while Ben's life may be a mess, at least his regular chess games with his roommate, Ibou, offer some amount of intellectual release. That all changes when Ibou falls mysteriously ill, and his malady is compounded by the indifference of a rude municipal employee. Convinced that his negative world view has finally been confirmed, Ben channels all of his energy into a frivolous lawsuit against the city before discovering that his misanthropy may be a simple matter of perspective.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 49,645
- UPC: 876964002813
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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