Next Stop Wonderland

Next Stop Wonderland
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Directed by	Brad Anderson
Produced by	Mitchell Robbins Laura Bernieri Rachael Horovitz
Written by	Brad Anderson Lyn Vaus
Starring	Hope Davis Alan Gelfant Philip Seymour Hoffman Cara Buono
Music by	Claudio Ragazzi
Cinematography	Uta Briesewitz
Edited by	Brad Anderson
Production company	Robbins Entertainment
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release dates	August 21, 1998 (1998-08-21)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US$1 million
Box office	US$3,395,581

Next Stop Wonderland is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Anderson and Lyn Vaus.

Plot

Two people, living in Boston and unlucky in love – a nurse, Erin, whose activist boyfriend, Sean, has just walked out on their relationship to help a Native American tribe fight off a land development deal, and a plumber, Alan, struggling to pay off family obligations while pursuing a career as a marine biologist – deal with personal and professional problems and stumble through relationships, continually crossing one another's paths without ever truly meeting and realizing how perfect they are for one another. Time and time again one almost catches the other's eye, but circumstances intervene. Finally, after a series of ups and downs, both of their budding relationships with others crash and burn, just in time for a chance meeting on the MBTA train heading to Wonderland station, on the outskirts of Boston.

Cast

• Hope Davis as Erin Castleton
• Alan Gelfant as Alan Monteiro
• Philip Seymour Hoffman as Sean
• Cara Buono as Julie
• José Zúñiga as Andre de Silva
• Sam Seder as Kevin Monteiro
• Callie Thorne as Cricket
• Jimmy Tingle as Bartender
• Holland Taylor as Piper Castleton
• Robert Klein as Arty Lesser
• H. Jon Benjamin as Eric
• Frank L. Ridley as Whale Watch Captain (voice)

Production

The film's soundtrack is scored by Claudio Ragazzi with various renditions by Vinicius Cantuaria, Arto Lindsay, and Bebel Gilberto.

Release

The film, which cost $1 million to make, was an audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. A bidding war among studio distributors resulted in Miramax Films paying $6 million for the film's North American distribution rights. However, the film grossed only $3.3 million during its theatrical release.

References

• Gerson, Lisa, "Next Stop: Hollywood" at the Wayback Machine (archived October 23, 1999), Boston magazine, July 1998. (archived 1999)

External links

• Next Stop Wonderland at IMDb
• Next Stop Wonderland at AllMovie
• Next Stop Wonderland at Box Office Mojo
• Next Stop Wonderland at Metacritic
• Bernieri, Laura, "Production Diary For Next Stop Wonderland" at the Wayback Machine (archived October 23, 1999), Robbins Entertainment Co. (archived 1999)