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  • 2006
  • R
  • First Independent Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • First Independent Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary The Great New Wonderful is populated by people you know: New Yorkers you see on the elevator, in the supermarket, at the gym. Without a trace of sentimentality, director Danny Leiner, a Brooklyn native, and his extraordinary cast paints five portraits of life in this city a year after the attacks of 9/11. (First Independent Pictures)

Directed By: Danny Leiner

Written By: Sam Catlin

  • 2006
  • R
  • First Independent Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • First Independent Pictures
  • 1 h 28 m

The Great New Wonderful

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable
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Summary The Great New Wonderful is populated by people you know: New Yorkers you see on the elevator, in the supermarket, at the gym. Without a trace of sentimentality, director Danny Leiner, a Brooklyn native, and his extraordinary cast paints five portraits of life in this city a year after the attacks of 9/11. (First Independent Pictures)

Directed By: Danny Leiner

Written By: Sam Catlin

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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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88
A quieter, less melodramatic piece of work than last year's "Crash," and arguably a better one.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
70
Writer Sam Catlin and director Danny Leiner have fashioned an alert, shrewdly observed portrait of a moment in time.
By F. X. Feeney FULL REVIEW
67
Working from a stagy script by Sam Catlin, director Danny Leiner uses a dainty palette of tristesse (untouched when he made Dude, Where's My Car?) to suggest that the shadow of 9/11 makes every discontent more pathetic.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
60
The movie falls short of the grandeur it's reaching for, but if you're looking for balm to soothe your frazzled nerves, you may be able to scrape some from the movie's rawer edges.
By Gene Seymour FULL REVIEW
50
Tries way too hard to be clever and shrewd.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
50
It is hard to feel much warmth toward people whose most salient feature is their disconnection from reality.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
20
Ironically, Leiner's two monuments to pothead delirium seem vastly more coherent than this hazy attempt to mine the zeitgeist, a film every bit as pointed as its nounless title.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Serenade Films, Sly Dog Films
Release Date Jun 23, 2006
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating R
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Tagline Rebuilding is a process.
Website http://www.greatnewwonderfulthemovie.com/
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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