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Dear Wendy [DVD] [2005]
enlarge	Director: Thomas Vinterberg Actors: Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano, Danso Gordon, Novella Nelson Studio: Metrodome Distribution Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £0.57 as of 24/11/2009 05:53 GMT details You Save: £15.42 (96%) New (16) Used (5) from £0.50 Seller: fu5ion Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 16132 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 101 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5055002552199 ASIN: B000BH2U2S Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Release Date: January 9, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Surprise! May 20, 2006 Y. Yearwood (London, UK) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful This movie is one which is best enjoyed without reading about its plot first. Even the title has a twist which if its revealed spoils the entire experience somewhat. Not a movie to buy unless you're a completist of the director's work but definitely one to rent blind and watch with a friend. From a banal ordinairy beginning to a ... ending of sorts. A work of art and a joy to watch. Pacifist geeks get guns and feel better for it November 1, 2005 Stephen Newton (Manchester, England) 8 out of 13 found this review helpful Pacifist geeks get guns, feel better for it, but are ultimately corrupted by their weapons#8217; #8216;true nature#8217;. Or should that be their own true nature. Either way Dear Wendy makes for an intelligent exploration of social exclusion and the attractiveness of cults, while a superb #8217;60s soundtrack proves its creators#8217; Dogme days are long gone. join the dandies May 5, 2007 Mr. Rwj Nixon 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Some films are more than the sum of their parts, some films are considerably less than the sum of their parts. Dear Wendy however, is a film that is precisely the sum of its parts, nothing more and nothing less. br / The film focuses on a simple and very deceptive love affair between a social misfit Dicky (played by Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell), and Wendy of the title. However, Wendy is not the girl of his dreams, she is in fact the gun of his dreams. Dicky lives in a small American town called Electric Park, and is determined not to follow in his fathers footsteps and end up working down the local mine. After securing a job at a local store, Dicky comes across what he thinks is a toy gun in a local store, run by the equally awkward Susan (Alison Pill), and buys the gun as a present for someone he doesn't really like, but winds up giving them something else instead, and keeps the gun. It is only when fellow convenience store worker Stevie (Mark Webber) catches sight of the gun that he identifies and reveals to Dicky that it is a working gun, and he to possesses a gun. The two of them strike up an unlikely friendship, and soon establish a club for their fellow misfits Susan, and two brothers Freddie (Michael Angarano) and Huey (Chris Owen). Calling themselves the Dandies, all of them obtain guns of one sort or another, and begin practising with them, establishing rules, and becoming a tight knit family. It is only when local petty criminal Sebastian (Danso Gordon) joins the group that things begin to come apart. br / From this basic premise director Thomas Vinterburg and writer Lars Von Trier have established as interesting and absorbing a film as you are ever likely to see. Taking the premise of what would a group of misfits do if they ever got their hands on guns (they would name then, they would obsessively practise with them, they would use them as confidence boosters and social crutches), writer and director present us with a stripped down vision of alienation, as we are quickly drawn into the obsessive world of Dicky and his band of make believe outlaws. Utilising few locations (most of it takes place in an abandoned mine or around the town square if you can call it that), and a sparse dialogue that never feels padded or unnecessary (although the over reliance on Dickys voiceover can occasionally become intrusive), the film builds from the gangs initial friendship and obsession built around their desire to be more than they are, to a climax that is both obvious and surprising at the same time. br / That it takes a European writer to make such an obvious critique of American society may not sit well with some, but this is a good point well made. That the film manages to make its point without ever implicitly coming down as pro gun or anti gun is a credit to the writer and director, leaving it up to the viewer to decide which side of the fence they want to be on. br / Projective Promises December 27, 2007 words with wonder (Huddersfield, UK) In my eyes an over enthusiastic sense of realism but a darn good film. They do not seem to be insane but the characters must actually be insane to take on the cops in a shootout that gets them nearly all killed. A story of love and an affection for the self and sense of being. Given by a weapon that holds them all with awe, and brings them all that more closer. They bring themselves into state of destruction when the power of their weapons takes a grip, and they feel they can change factors in their life they dislike. Good to watch and most enjoyable, a look into the cult and what can be betrayed

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