Storyline
When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.
Directors
Cast
Veena Sood, Eric Keenleyside, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Steve Carell, Falk Hentschel, Neil Jackson, Matt O'Leary, Leslie Zemeckis, Stefanie von Pfetten, Conrad Coates, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Merritt Wever, Gwendoline Christie, Janelle Monáe, Siobhan Williams, Eiza González, Robert Mann, Sharon Crandall, Matt Ellis, Christie-Lee Britten, Nikolai Witschl, Samantha Hum, Jason Burkart, Alexander Lowe, Patrick Roccas, Kate Gajdosik
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Reviews
70
The story's knotty aspects reverberate under its sentimental-cum-inspirational surface. In the guise of a glossy entertainment, Welcome to Marwen gets at some unnervingly irresolvable truths about humanity.
60
Though lacking in subtlety, Robert Zemeckis' Welcome to Marwen delivers a sentimental fantasy world worth wading in.
50
“The most original movie of the year?” Not quite. But sometimes, if a film is this hard to sell, perhaps that’s a sign that it shouldn’t have been made in the first place.
50
If Marwencol made your heart go out to Mark, Welcome to Marwen does something quite different. It makes you want to back away from him slowly.
50
TheWrap
Some parts of Marwen just seem empty, and while the filmmakers and Carell earn praise for tackling trauma through animation, the film ultimately has no real impact.
