Wonder Wheel (2017)
Storyline
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
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Cast
Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet, David Krumholtz, James Belushi, Juno Temple, Steve Schirripa, Tommy Nohilly, John Mainieri, Debi Mazar, Tony Sirico, Matthew Maher, Robert C. Kirk, Gregory Dann, Geneva Carr, Max Casella, Maddie Corman, Ed Jewett, Tom Guiry, Jenna Stern, Candice A. Buenrostro, Bobby Slayton, Bobby Slayton, Jack Gore, Tod Rainey, Danielle Ferland, Marko Caka, Amelie McKendry, John Doumanian, Nancy Ellen Shore, Neil Fleischer, Marshall Axt, Jeremy Francis Bell, John Druzba, Jillian Shields, Dominic Albano, Michael Zegarski, Jacob Berger, Jacob Berger, Michael Striano, Cooper Carrell, Brittini Schreiber, Hannah Hartwell, Haley Klausmeyer, Frankie Petrosino, Olivia Twarowski, Max Ripley, Vincent Paolicelli, Gregory O Nicolas, Julia Losner, Evin Cross, John Michael Bradshaw, Ziada Zienna, Marie Smalley
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Reviews
83
Winslet delivers her most powerful, emotionally resonant performance in more than a decade.
80
It would be going too far to say Wonder Wheel is an instant Woody Allen classic, but it’s a reminder that he’s still a force to be reckoned with and a great director of actresses especially.
70
It’s got movement and flow, it’s got a vibrant sunset look of honky-tonk nostalgia, and it’s got a bittersweet mood of lyrical despair that the film stays true to right up until the final note. It’s also strikingly acted.
67
This is an imperfect, if entirely beautiful, film.
50
Allen is too self-aware and cold a creative personality to create a genuine tragedy in Wonder Wheel. Instead, he makes a gesture towards a tragic situation.
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