Film: The Great New Wonderful

I'm going to take a chance here and post about a film that has not even been reviewed yet. The fact that there's not a lot of information about this film is strange considering the names attached to it. The cast includes Tony Shalhoub, Edie Falco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olympia Dukakis, Will Arnett, and Stephen Colbert. The film was directed by Danny Leiner, best known for the teen-oriented comedies Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. That doesn't bode well, but the trailer looks good (see below).

It opens June 23rd, 2006 (limited). All available details are here.

Here is the plot summary from the New York Times:

A handful of New Yorkers try to make sense of the various emotional traumas in their lives on the anniversary of the city's greatest tragedy in this episodic comedy drama. It's September 11, 2002, and Emme (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a struggling gourmet pastry chef who is competing for an important job with Safarah Polsky (Edie Falco), an experienced veteran with many prestigious clients. Judy Hillerman (Olympia Dukakis) is an elderly woman who, after many years of marriage, is suddenly tempted to cheat on her husband for the first time. Dr. Trabulous (Tony Shalhoub) is a psychiatrist who meets every day with Sandy (Jim Gaffigan) as they try to sort out the aftermath of a brutal physical attack, though the doctor's approach seems more than a bit misguided. Avi (Naseeruddin Shah) and Satish
(Sharat Saxena) are a pair of security men hired to protect a visiting dignitary, an assignment that leaves them with very different feelings. And Allison (Judy Greer) and David (Tom McCarthy) are parents deep in denial about the myriad emotional problems confronting their ten-year-old son. The Great New Wonderful was directed by Danny Leiner, best known for the teen-oriented comedies Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Here is the trailer to the film. It's the only real sense of the movie currently available. I'll post a review as soon as I see one.




I'm hoping this will be a good movie. I don't groove with most of the Hollywood stuff, so a good summer film that might actually come to Tucson would be a good thing.

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