Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 09/04/1998(USA)
Release Date: 05/09/2000
SubTitles: Espanol/English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2/5.1
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
An independent romantic comedy,
Next Stop, Wonderland (1998) made headlines at the
Sundance Film Festival when it became the object of a bidding war, ultimately won by
Miramax Pictures to the tune of $6 million.
Hope Davis stars as Erin Castleton, a night-shift nurse who's cruelly dumped by her boyfriend Sean (
Philip Seymour Hoffman), a political activist. When her mother Piper (
Holland Taylor) places a wildly inaccurate personals ad in the local paper, Erin is at first enraged, but then becomes curious. After she dates a variety of men who are all wrong for her, she meets Andre (
Jose Zuniga), a handsome Brazilian music expert who invites her to Sao Paulo. Although Erin likes Andre, her
Mr. Right is actually Alan Monteiro (
Alan Gelfant), a plumber she's never met, though the two keep crossing paths. Trying to break out of his working class existence, Alan is studying marine biology but is indebted to a local mob boss, who wants him to kidnap a star blowfish from the local aquarium. Actress
Taylor, the real-life aunt of co-writer, editor and director
Brad Anderson, also appeared in his next film,
Happy Accidents (1999).
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
