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Wonder Wheel

Cast

Jim Belushi, Juno Temple, Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet View All


Crew

Woody Allen (Director), Woody Allen (Writer) View All

Release: Dec. 1st, 2017
Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
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Citizen Rules
Allen uses the lifeguard character at the beginning of his film to serendipitously tell the viewer that Wonder Wheel contains symbolism, as the lifeguard says: he's working on a play and the poet in him loves symbolism...And the romantic in him loves very dramatic characters.
Gideon58
This is forgiven with the character of Mickey because he is an aspiring writer but it didn't change the fact that he shouldn't have been narrating the story because he was hardly an objective outsider sharing the story, which I could have accepted if the character had turned out to be as sincere as ....


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