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Next Stop Wonderland is a bitter-sweet
yet tender and joyous reflection on love, friendship and destiny.
Shot in Boston, this romantic comedy by Brad Anderson tells the
story of a man and a woman and the string of events that bring them
together.
Erin (Hope Davis) plays a nurse working the night shift who is bitter
because her boyfriend dumped her. At the other end of the city is
Alan (Alan Gelfant), an ambitious ex-plumber, who dreams of becoming
a marine biologist. The only thing they have in common is that they
take the same train from time to time.
Anderson cleverly develops two parallel lives with originality and
honesty creating two amusing portraits of thirty-year olds whose
paths are to cross. The film is punctuated with romantic Bossa Nova
rhythms à la Boston for a perfume of happiness and melancholy.
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Brad Anderson
Brad Anderson co-wrote, directed and edited Next Stop Wonderland, an original
romantic comedy about encounters and destiny. His style is that of intimacy
based on improvisation and explores the mysteries, joys and hurts common
to modern love relationships.
Next Stop Wonderland is his second feature film following The Darien Grap
which was in competition at the Sundance festival in 1996 and received
the best director award at the Santa Barbara Festival and best screenplay
at the Florida Film Festival.
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Anderson followed ethnographic film studies at Bowdoin College before
leaving for London where he studied production at the London International
Film School. Following that, he spent 8 years in Boston making documentaries
and short films. Anderson has taught filmmaking at Tufts, Boston University
and Emerson College. His recent move to New York corresponds with his
next project, a horror film entitled Lullaby. |
