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Wonderland

1999 · 108 min

A quiet, intimate mosaic of ordinary London lives, lonely and tender, drifting through a few days with gentle sadness and small hopes.

Genres
Drama
Tagline
Everybody's looking for something.
Overview
Living in working-class London, Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters navigate quiet lives of loneliness: cafe waitress Nadia searches for love through personal ads, hairdresser and single mother Debbie balances casual romance with co-parenting alongside her volatile ex, and expectant mother Molly copes with a partner overwhelmed by impending fatherhood.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • loneliness
  • family
  • isolation
  • love
  • parenthood
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Written by
Laurence Coriat
Starring
Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Ian Hart, John Simm, Stuart Townsend, Kika Markham, Jack Shepherd
Music
Michael Nyman
Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt
Runtime
108 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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