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- 2018
- Not Rated
- 1 h 30 m
- 2018
- Not Rated
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Seeking an escape from his isolated life in New York City, Alex (Tate Ellington) accepts a mysterious invitation to house sit a picturesque cottage on Long Island. There he ends up lost on a surreal musical all-night odyssey of misadventures.
Directed By: Josh Klausner
Written By: Josh Klausner
- 2018
- Not Rated
- 1 h 30 m
- 2018
- Not Rated
- 1 h 30 m
Wanderland
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Summary Seeking an escape from his isolated life in New York City, Alex (Tate Ellington) accepts a mysterious invitation to house sit a picturesque cottage on Long Island. There he ends up lost on a surreal musical all-night odyssey of misadventures.
Directed By: Josh Klausner
Written By: Josh Klausner
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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50% Mixed
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0% Negative
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There’s no rhyme or reason to Alex’s journey, which makes the whole of it equally disarming and daffy.
Through it all, Ellington's performance remains effortlessly subtle and lived-in, bringing unexpected depth to the quiet play of emotion on the character's face and giving this loopy episodic tale its heart.
Real, inspired strangeness — not to mention laughs, and an actual point — prove elusive here, while the musical elements feel so inessential they might be excised entirely without notable loss. Wanderland deserves credit for trying something different. But such an effort shouldn’t end up so innocuous and inconsequential.
Although the prospect of watching a mash-up of "La La Land" and Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" holds promise, director-writer Josh Klausner, in a departure from his screenplays for "Shrek Forever After" and "Date Night," opts instead for offbeat spiritual enlightenment, but is unable to sustain a delicate tone that becomes increasingly twee as it goes along.
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