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