Dear Wendy

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DVD Details

  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Genius Entertainment

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten36%

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Total Count: 64

Upright66%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 16,552
Rating: 2/5 -- Entre la sátira, la fábula y el comentario crítico (...) el interés se pierde y no convencen. Full Review
Uruguay Total
May 21, 2007
Rating: 2/4 -- We get it, Lars. Actually, we got it some time ago. Guns are bad things. They kill people and Americans are obsessed with them. Can we move on now? Full Review
Globe and Mail
Feb 24, 2006
The scenario's practically straitjacketed in commentary. Von Trier's weak story doesn't help. Full Review
Washington Post
Oct 6, 2005
Rating: 2/4 -- Like the Dandies, Vinterberg and Von Trier are fascinated by something they despise, and despise it even more for fascinating them. And in the end, like the Dandies, Vinterberg and Von Trier still don't know the first thing about it.
Newark Star-Ledger
Sep 27, 2005
Rating: 3/4 -- Naive, corruptible, lonely young man meets femme fatale, and it all leads, inevitably, absurdly, to destruction.
Christianity Today
Aug 25, 2006
Sadly, the real Thomas Vinterberg appears to be standing up. But for what exactly? Full Review
Film Comment Magazine
Nov 19, 2013
Jamie Bell shows gravitas as the narrator hero....This is very much a European vision of the US, and the film's re-creation of small-town America is deliberately idiosyncratic and alienating...
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 2006

Product Description:

Dogme '95 cofounders Thomas Vinterberg (CELEBRATION) and Lars Von Trier (DANCER IN THE DARK, DOGVILLE) team up in DEAR WENDY, an unusual but entertaining drama set in an unnamed American small town. Jamie Bell, the award-winning actor who played the title role in BILLY ELLIOT, stars as Dick, a teenager loner whose father (Trevor Cooper) is disappointed that the boy has chosen not to work with him in the mines. Shortly following his father's death, Dick develops a fetish for a gun he bought in a toystore, and he soon forms a special club with fellow outcasts Freddie (Michael Angarano), Huey (Chris Owen), Susan (Alison Pill), and Stevie (Mark Webber). The teens meet regularly in an abandoned section of the mine, where they refer to their guns as their "partners," experiment with unique shooting styles, and live by their own code of bizarre rules--which include never firing aboveground at people. But when Sheriff Krugsby (Bill Pullman) asks Dick to help take care of troubled teen Sebastian (Danso Gordon), things don't go quite as planned, leading to an unforgettable ending. The quirky, compelling film, written by Von Trier and directed by Vinterberg, features cool costumes, expert pacing, and familiar songs by the 1960s group the Zombies.

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  • UPC: 720917547824
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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