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April 2009
WONDERFUL WORLD


WONDERFUL WORLD

Director: Josh Goldin
Producers: Miranda Bailey, Matt Leutwyler, Glenn Williamson
Screenwriter: Josh Goldin
Composer: Craig Richey
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, Phillip Baker Hall, Michael K. Williams, Jodelle Ferland, Ally Walker

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Synopsis: Ben Singer (Matthew Broderick) is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a compulsive marijuana smoker, and a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad. He's also the most negative man alive. Floundering in all aspects of his life, Ben's only comfort comes from regular chess games and friendly debates on game theory with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struck ill, and an insensitive municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, Ben's pessimistic worldview seems unequivocally confirmed. His only recourse is to pour his energies into a frivolous lawsuit against the city for depraved indifference. But Ben soon finds that cynicism may be all a matter of perspective.

Writer/director Josh Goldin increasingly calls into question Ben's misanthropy and carefully navigates the character's midlife melancholy as a possible product of his own mind. Goldin delicately balances both seriousness and levity, giving texture and depth to this offbeat and entertaining character study. Broderick brings the unlikable but undeniably savable Ben to life with the wry antics of his performance.

 

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