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DVD : The Great New WonderfulIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Thomas McCarthy directed by: Danny Leiner  List Price: $26.99 Amazon.com's Price: $24.49 You Save: $2.50 ( 9%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION EAN: 0855280001670 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: First Independent Manufacturer: First Independent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: First Independent Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 12, 2006 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: First Independent Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Sales Rank: 46829 MPN: MCMDF10167D Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Edie Falco, Tony Shaloub, Stephen Colbert and Olympia Dukakis star in this lighthearted comedy about life in New York City one year following 9/11. It’s a comedy about starting over. Amazon.com: A rich portrait of life in New York in the wake of disaster, The Great New Wonderful offers a kind of compassion rare in film. Five storylines intertwine--including competitive pastry chefs (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary, and Edie Falco, The Sopranos), an elderly woman (Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck) realizing she can't stand her lumpish husband, and a middle-class parents (Judy Greer, Arrested Development, and Tom McCarthy, Syriana) coping with their increasingly sociopathic child--all of them thick with brilliantly observed social tension. As a therapist (Tony Shalhoub, Big Night) questions a patient (Jim Gaffigan), it's ambiguous whether he's diagnosing the patient's anger or actually causing it. The Great New Wonderful makes compelling drama out of the subtle discords of commonplace life, the kind of frustration and hostility that rises up constantly but has to be tamped back down in order to get through the day--but in the aftermath of a catastrophe like 9/11, the smallest things become unbearable. The Great New Wonderful doesn't rise to the scope of Robert Altman's best work (like Nashville), but it successfully avoids the forced pretensions of other ensemble pieces like Magnolia. Subtlety is too often invoked to excuse a lack of substance, but this movie genuinely makes small nuances tangible and compelling. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Meh - I wouldn't pay for itI watched this movie on cable. Great line up of actors. Most are wasted on two-dimensional characters. You know these actors from their previous and subsequent work - so you expect excellence. Unfortunately, their presence distracts from the story. I love Steven Colbert, but I only enjoyed his presence once he started to crack off one-liners. I think the 9-11 subtext is a red haring. After reflecting a few hours, I think the moral of at least one story line is - get rid of your mentally disturbed ... Read More Rating:  - Read between the linesThis is not a comedy but a deep insightful snapshot into the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the aftermath of 9/11. Though 9/11 is not referenced directly by any of the charachters you get the sense that all are undergoing profound changes within themselves during the course of the year following the attack. This was a brilliant movie if you are able to read between the lines. (I have no idea why this is being billed as a comedy?) Rating:  - Please enter a title for your reviewI picked it up because of Colbert and Gaffigan's names on the cover figuring if they chose to be involved in it it would at least be creative if not funny. It's just slow and boring. Another formulaic attempt to find beauty and tragedy in the minuitae of everyday human existance. The characters and situations are more developed than those in 21 Grams or Coffee And Cigarettes but not as much as those in American Beauty or You And Me And Everyone We Know. Rating: - What a disappointment...This drama is so stupid. One man is driven to madness, a child that has anger problems,a man obsessed with cheating on his wife, and a woman trying to be the best at her job. The only thing that remotely brings the topic of 9/11 is the pscho evaluation. I guess the writers want you to guess the child has anger issues because of 9/11. THis movie was all over the place in direction. THe acting was good and they had a great cast but obviously the writers didn't know what to do with them. Definitely not a family ... Read More Rating: - The Dull, Tired and Never Wonderful.The above, is a much better title for this so-called movie. The reason they let you watch each of the five, 20 minute stories separately (if you choose to), is because they're all really just shorts. Nothing funny about this film, except for the Dvd cover, which only gets the actor's names correct. Every other word on it is a complete lie. It's not even good, never mind brilliant. Comedy? Nope! It's a movie about angst, fear, depression and who knows what else. I always love Maggie G., but here, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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