Land of Plenty
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 10, 2006
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Ifc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michelle Williams & John Diehl | |
Performer: | Shaun Toub, Wendell Pierce, Richard Edson, Burt Young, Jeris Poindexter, Gloria Stuart, Yuri Z. Elvin & Rhonda Stubbins White | |
Directed by | Wim Wenders | |
Screenwriting by | Wim Wenders & Michael Meredith | |
Composition by | Thom & Nackt | |
Produced by | Gary Winick, Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan, In-Ah Lee, Samson Mucke & Jake Abraham | |
Director of Photography: | Franz Lustig | |
Executive Production by | Peter Schwartzkopff |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
not exactly lazy filmmaking, but it's hard to give it your complete attention
Filmcritic.com
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.
Variety
Rating: D --
Major tragedy that September 11th has gone from horrifying to exploited... to, now, really freakin' boring German films about deserts and campervans.
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Film Scouts
[Wender's] view of American landscapes and folkways...is often romantic and always affectionate, perhaps never more so than in LAND OF PLENTY.
New York Times
3 stars out of 5 -- Michelle Williams convinces as a missionary....There's a welcome idealism in Wenders' reconciliatory urges.
Total Film
Rating: B- --
Only when the lessons end and characters become simply individuals trying to connect and communicate in the desolate landscape of a forgotten America does the film resonate.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Rating: 4/5 --
Hampered by an ending that overreaches needlessly, the film is nevertheless worthy and unmistakably the effort of an enduringly distinctive and important filmmaker.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Wim Wenders's emotional LAND OF PLENTY is a powerful exploration of post-9/11 America. John Diehl gives a strong performance as Paul, a Vietnam Vet who is haunted by the events of September 11 and drives the streets of Los Angeles searching for terrorists he is sure are going to strike again. DAWSON CREEK's Michelle Williams, in a breakout role, plays Paul's niece, Lana, who has been living in Israel and has come to California to work at a homeless mission. Each is firmly dedicated to what they see is their job of making America better--and safer--even though they come from two very different worlds. When a homeless Muslim is gunned down, Paul and Lana team up on a road trip; while Lana wants to deliver the body to the dead man's family, Paul wants to find the terrorist cell he believes the man was working for. Their cross-country journey reveals several sides of America and its multitude of reactions to the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Wenders, who has helmed such beautiful, offbeat films as WINGS OF DESIRE and PARIS, TEXAS, made LAND OF PLENTY in just sixteen days, using a digital camera to give it a realistic yet disarming feel, accompanied by yet another killer soundtrack, featuring songs by Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Travis, and Thom & Nacht.