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Wondrous Oblivion (2006)

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Reviews Counted:40

Fresh:26

Rotten:14

Average Rating:6.2/10

Consensus: This coming-of-age/cricket tale wants to be touching, but is too often sappy.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Nov 3, 2006 Limited

Synopsis: Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and... Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and build a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven. But this is 1960's England, and when the neighbours start to make life difficult for the new arrivals, David's family are caught in the middle, and he has to choose between fitting in and standing up for the new friends who have turned his world upside down. [More]

Starring: Sam Smith, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Townsend, Emily Woof

Starring: Sam Smith, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Townsend, Emily Woof, Richard Ashton, Barry Davis

Director: Paul Morrison

Director: Paul Morrison

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Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/18/08
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The challenges of friendship across color lines.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
06/17/07
Jules Brenner
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Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
05/12/07
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Evocative, beautifully photographed and skillfully directed.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International

David's favorite exclamation is "wondrous!" %u2014 which happens to be a fitting description for the talents of writer/director Paul Morrison.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
02/01/07
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

Wondrous Oblivion is a timeless tale of an 11-year-old South London boy putting aside boyish things. Writer-director Paul Morrison affirms PG-rated life lessons that could appeal to 11-year-olds and their elders alike.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
01/12/07
Bill Stamets
Bill Stamets
Chicago Sun-Times
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Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
12/30/06
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For all its bright-hued nostalgia (the cricket greens are practically incandescent), Wondrous Oblivion edges up to hard truths, most powerfully expressed in Lindo's towering performance.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/30/06
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
Los Angeles Times
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A touching rite-of-passage flick which simultaneously sends several valuable messages about friendship, fidelity, tolerance, and reaching for the stars.

Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine | comment Comment
12/28/06
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
Upstage Magazine

You don't have to know anything about the sport of cricket to be charmed by Wondrous Oblivion, a British film that is finally getting a well-deserved theatrical release after opening the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in 2004.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
12/22/06
G. Allen Johnson
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
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...Thanks to solid performances and very nice cinematography, it hits, if not a home run, at least a solid double (or the British equivalent).

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
12/15/06
Marc Mohan
Marc Mohan
Oregonian

A family film with a difference, Wondrous Oblivion displays real bite as it incisively tackles such adult subjects as racism, anti-Semitism, adultery and the plight of immigrants in an intolerant land.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
11/23/06
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Boxoffice Magazine

It's a delight to see Delroy Lindo -- perpetually cast as tough cops and tougher crooks -- playing a tender father and decent (if struggling) husband.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
11/06/06
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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Amid the mawkish mess rests a genuinely touching love story between two people who are considered outcasts by mainstream society. Too bad they're not the stars of the movie.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
11/03/06
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Premiere Magazine

It's sweet-as-pie, nicely acted and boasts a marvelous vintage ska-reggae-calypso soundtrack featuring some of the best, bounciest songs of the era, including 'Sugar Dandy,' 'Rudi, A Message to You' and of course, Millie Small's 'My Boy Lollipop.'

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
11/03/06
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The film feels like the Cliffs Notes version of what might have been a much longer and certainly more satisfying story.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
11/03/06
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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It loses direction, turning contrived and sentimental.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
11/03/06
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Good intentions and some nicely playful moments go a long way toward balancing out Paul Morrison's uneven story of British immigrants in the early 1960s.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
11/03/06
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Form and content fight to the death in Wondrous Oblivion, Paul Morrison's defiantly gauzy tale of racial friction in 1960s England.

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11/02/06
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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A small and intimate English film about playing cricket, coming of age, and the respect for diversity that seems so hard to learn.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
11/02/06
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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