| Next Stop Wonderland | |
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| Directed by | Brad Anderson |
| Produced by | Mark Gill Mitchell Robbins |
| Starring | Hope Davis Alan Gelfant Cara Buono Philip Seymour Hoffman Holland Taylor Robert Klein |
| Music by | Claudio Ragazzi |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) | August 21, 1998 |
| Running time | 104 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 |
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Next Stop Wonderland is a 1998 romantic comedy film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Anderson and Lyn Vaus.
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Cast
- Hope Davis ... Erin Castleton
- Alan Gelfant ... Alan Monteiro
- Philip Seymour Hoffman ... Sean
- Cara Buono ... Julie
- José Zúñiga ... Andre de Silva
- Callie Thorne ... Cricket
- Holland Taylor ... Piper Castleton
- Robert Klein ... Arty Lesser
Plot
Two people, living in Boston and unlucky in love - a nurse (Davis) whose activist boyfriend (Hoffman) has just walked out on their relationship to help an Indian tribe fight off a land development deal, and a plumber (Gelfant) struggling to pay off family obligations while pursuing a career as a marine biologist - deal with personal and professional problems and stumble through relationships, continually crossing one another's paths without ever truly meeting and realizing how perfect they are for one another. Time and again one almost catches the other's eye, only for circumstances to intervene. Finally, after a series of ups and downs, both of their budding relationships with others crash and burn, just in time for a chance meeting on the MBTA train heading to Wonderland station on the outskirts of Boston.
Trivia
- This film was an audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 and set off a bidding war among studio distributors, with Miramax Films paying $6 million for the $1 million film's North American distribution rights. [1] However, the film only garnered a disappointing $3.3 million during its theatrical release. [2]
