Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Hope Davis | ... | Erin Castleton | |
Philip Seymour Hoffman | ... | Sean | |
Callie Thorne | ... | Cricket | |
Ken Cheeseman | ... | Rick | |
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Pamela Hart | ... | Berit |
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Diane Beckett | ... | Seana |
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Jeremy Geidt | ... | Bookseller |
Alan Gelfant | ... | Alan Monteiro | |
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Dave Gilloran | ... | Aquarium Volunteer |
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Luz Alexandra Ramos | ... | Thalia (as Luz Alexandra) |
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Emma Shaw | ... | Bailey |
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Kemp Harris | ... | Ben |
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Neil Gustafson | ... | Yuri Spinov |
Holland Taylor | ... | Piper Castleton | |
E. Katherine Kerr | ... | Candice (as Katherine Kerr) |
Erin is a nurse and her longtime boyfriend has dumped her. Her mother Piper places a personal ad for her. Meanwhile the film follows the life of Alan, a volunteer at a local aquarium who dreams of becoming a marine biologist. Will their paths cross? Written by Anonymous
Unlike most romantic comedies that get distributed, Next Stop Wonderland is neither star-peopled nor entirely plot-driven. Although the film was marketed as another Nora Ephron knockoff, it is very different from the slick, syrupy Meg Ryan vehicles viewers were led to believe it would resemble. Brad Anderson's beautiful, shimmering treatment of light, and his pleasingly idiosyncratic manner of filming the Boston urban landscape (and the lovely Hope Davis), well serve the sympathetic honesty with which he treats the search for love in the modern American city. A magnificent film.