Fresh
Wim Wenders' first fiction featurefeature since 2000's The Million Dollar Hotel, rocky but respectable Land of Plenty proves the helmer often does better with low budgets, fast schedules and young collaborators.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Land of Plenty
2004 · 2h 3m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Wim Wenders
,
Edward McGurn
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Land of Plenty
Overview
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
Director and cast
- Wim Wenders Director
- Edward McGurn Director
- Michelle Williams as Lana
- John Diehl as Paul
- Shaun Toub as Hassan
- Burt Young as Sherman
- Jeris Poindexter as Charles
- Wendell Pierce as Henry
- Richard Edson as Jimmy
- Rhonda Stubbins White as Dee Dee
- Victoria Thomas as News Reporter
- Matthew Kimbrough as News Anchor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It casts a spell of compassionate humanity with a gently healing effect.
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Fresh
Hampered by an ending that overreaches needlessly, the film is nevertheless worthy and unmistakably the effort of an enduringly distinctive and important filmmaker.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
The flawed, fascinating Land of Plenty is easily Wenders' most vital work in more than a decade.
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Wenders handles America's physical landscape with characteristic clarity. But he never gets a handle on the trickier political terrain and so, like Uncle Paul, ends up chasing too many roads to nowhere.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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