NEXT STOP WONDERLAND - DVD

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: 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).
• Cast: Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Callie Thorne, Ken Cheeseman, Pamela Hart, Diane Beckett, Jeremy Geidt, Alan Gelfant, Dave Gilloran, Luz Alexandra Ramos, Emma Shaw, Kemp Harris, Neil Gustafson, Holland Taylor, E. Katherine Kerr, Jason Lewis, Jack Sweet, Paula Lyons, Arnie Reisman, Betsy Nally, Sam Seder, Bronwyn Sims, Renita Whited, Paula Plum, Robert Klein, Victor Argo, Greg Watson, Bob Larkin, Paul Wagner, Todd Robinson, Roger Rees, Cara Buono, Jimmy Tingle, Wayne Pretlow, H. Jon Benjamin, Lyn Vaus, Ernest Thompson, Robert Stanton, Charley Broderick, Larry Gilliard Jr., Aleksander Wierzbicki, Andrea Grano, Lori Haims, José Zúñiga, Elizabeth Lindsey, Frank T. Wells, Steve Sweeney, James O'Connell, Melinda Lopez, Sandi Carroll, Ed Regine, Will Le Bow, Eric Roemele, Tom Cotter, D.W. Ferranti, Charles Laquidara, Eric Ruben, Ken Mason, Scott Richards, Al Ducharme, Bob Druwing, Jon Alex, Erin Ferdinand, Adriana Giangregorio, Dennis Lynch, Kyle Pepi, Ryan Pepi, Frank Ridley, Brad Anderson
• Director: Brad Anderson
• Runtime: 1:45
• Media Format: movie