The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
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Danny LeinerWriter:
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| Maggie Gyllenhaal | ... | Emme Keeler | |
| Seth Gilliam | ... | Clayton | |
| Jim Parsons | ... | Justin | |
| Martha Millan | ... | Alexa | |
| Will Arnett | ... | Danny Keeler | |
| Nancy McDoniel | ... | Agnes Whitehead | |
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Fred Burrell | ... | Wexler Whitehead |
| Jillian Crane | ... | Crying Woman | |
| Mario Polit | ... | Elvis Cedeno | |
| Tony Kushner | ... | Tony Kushner | |
| Edie Falco | ... | Safarah Polsky | |
| Finnerty Steeves | ... | Isabelle | |
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Priscilla Shanks | ... | Priscilla Krindel |
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Bernie McInerney | ... | Duff Krindel |
| Ari Graynor | ... | Lisa Krindel | |
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In New York City, five concurrent and ultimately intersecting stories of emotional despair are presented leading up to the first anniversary of 9/11. Emme Keeler, a high end cake designer, and her businessman husband Danny are all about presenting the perfect life, much like the perfection Emme strives for with her cake designs. Despite that perfection, Emme and her team have lost most of the recent contracts against their main competitor, Safarah Polsky. Emme is hoping things will change with the upcoming annual competition to win the lucrative contract to provide the birthday cake for now teenager, spoiled heiress Lisa Krindle, Emme who will do whatever she can to get a leg up on Safarah. Married Allison and David Burbage do whatever they need to to provide for their adolescent son Charlie, who is in expensive therapy to deal with disruptive sometimes bordering on violent behavior against others. They may not realize that they are really placing their own relationship at risk in not... Written by Huggo
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Country:
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22 April 2005 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$39,712, 25 June 2006, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$150,071, 24 September 2006Company Credits
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Beautifully woven, complex and subtle, this film captures an essence of NYC after 9/11. A great script, some stunning photography, an excellent score that helps tie it all together, and a great ensemble cast make this small film seem quite large. The emotions that bubble under the surface, only sometimes breaking through, give this film its strength and its power. Different stories of different people all struggling with day to day life sharing the common experience of being New Yorkers post 9/11. The references to what happened are almost all unspoken, evoked through the images displayed or the background sounds, yet there is no doubt that what happened is a force in the lives of all of these people. Intelligent film-making at its best.