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Next Stop Wonderland (eng)
(GSC Mid Valley International Screens)
Just when Erin thought her love life had hit rock bottom, her mother comes along to make everything worse by secretly taking out a wildly Flirtatious personal ad that has Erin's phone ringing off the hook. A comedy romance starring Hope Davis and Alan Gelfant, it won the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
 
 
Movie review by: Michelle

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Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe that your soul-mate is somewhere out there? That you don't have to look for love because you will know it when it finds you? "Next Stop Wonderland" is all this, and it so much reminds me of "Sleepless In Seattle", that the two souls are meant for each other but only they don't know it. So they go through a whole rigmarole of events to find that 'one' meant for them.

The story here is about Erin where in the opening of the movie, we see her getting dumped by her boyfriend - who is so self-absorbed that he videotapes his reasons for breaking up but takes the VCR with him when he splits

With her hair messy and her eyes sad, Erin seems a troubled, melancholy soul in Boston, a town too busy to care about her…until her sophisticated and well-meaning mother steps in and put a glowing personal ad in The Boston Herald for her daughter. So Erin embarks on a series of disastrous blind dates with a string of creeps and losers.

But wait, the movie has already telegraphed the Right Guy for her from the beginning. For this, across town near the Wonderland subway stop, we are introduced to Alan, a real heck of guy. He's 35 years old, studying for his marine biologist's degree, working days as a plumber and volunteers at the Boston Aquarium, and is in real deep with some loan sharks. Not only that, there's this real cute chick who has been flashing him the green light, but no, Alan is too preoccupied to take interest.

Just as "Sleepless In Seattle", the two meant-for-each-other will meet only 5 minutes before the show ends, but "Sleepless" fares way, way better.

Sigh, there are just too many plot lines, I'm getting a headache. My patience is waning fast. The movie is not devoid of wit but the shaky documentary-style camera work is a real drawback. There are too many sub-plots to follow, it's full of loose threads, blind alleys and false starts, making if feel and seem so overloaded. Even if it's not wholly satisfying, it has some funny, acutely observed details about the frustration of looking for love.



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