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Dear Wendy
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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Thomas Vinterberg
Writer:
Lars von Trier (written by)
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Release Date:
23 September 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
One shot is all it takes.
Plot:
A young boy in a nameless, timeless American town establishes a gang of youthful misfits united in their love of guns and their code of honor. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
Vinterberg aims at something, but doesn't really hit anything more (54 total)

Cast

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Jamie Bell ... Dick Dandelion

Bill Pullman ... Krugsby

Michael Angarano ... Freddie

Danso Gordon ... Sebastian
Novella Nelson ... Clarabelle

Chris Owen ... Huey

Alison Pill ... Susan
Mark Webber ... Stevie
Trevor Cooper ... Dick's Dad

Matthew Géczy ... Young Officer

William Hootkins ... Marshall Walker
Teddy Kempner ... Mr. Salomon

Thomas Bo Larsen ... Customer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min | Argentina:102 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Copenhagen, Denmark more
Company:
Lucky Punch more

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Trivia:
Director Nicolas Winding Refn stated in an interview with Mads Brügger on "Den 11. time" (2007), that Lars von Trier offered him the chance to direct this film, but he declined (6th September, 2007). more
Quotes:
[Huey has just shot Marshall Walker in the head]
Huey: Officer d-d-down, I'm afraid!
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Movie Connections:
References Full Metal Jacket (1987) more
Soundtrack:
A Thousand Miles more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Vinterberg aims at something, but doesn't really hit anything, 13 January 2008
3/10
Author: d-trick-b from Berlin, Germany

There is something very fundamental that shouldn't go wrong in a film, and that is the so-called "suspension of disbelief". When you sit watching a film and can't keep yourself from thinking that it's all just a film with actors saying their lines on a film set, then it's obviously gone wrong. And that's the very thing that happens to "Dear Wendy". It's a cleverly thought-out, well conceived plan, but it doesn't come to life. The characters feel two-dimensional all the way through, I didn't care for any of them, so I just kept watching from the outside, which felt a bit like looking at fish in an aquarium. Furthermore, the story is painfully predictable - once people take a gun in their hands, it's always an easy guess to tell what will happen in the end, and so it does. Cinematography and everything is good as usual, but cinematography and everything never made a boring film good. "Festen" was such a great, deep, human film - where did the guy go who made it?

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