Land of Plenty (2005)
63 %
Reviews Counted: 24 Fresh: 15 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 19, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Using the streets of Downtown Los Angeles as a backdrop, Wim Wenders's LAND OF PLENTY is a darkly humorous and poignant essay on contemporary America, shown from two very different perspectives: Through the eyes of a patriotic and troubled Vietnam veteran on one hand, and from the point of... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Shaun Toub, Wendell Pierce, Richard Edson
Director: Wim Wenders
Screenwriter: Wim Wenders
Producer: Gary Winick, Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan
Director: Gary Winick
Screenwriter: Michael Meredith
Producer: In-Ah Lee, Samson Mucke, Jake Abraham
Composer: Thom & Nackt
Screenwriter: Wim Wenders
Producer: Gary Winick, Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan
Director: Gary Winick
Screenwriter: Michael Meredith
Producer: In-Ah Lee, Samson Mucke, Jake Abraham
Composer: Thom & Nackt
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Deftly balances its viewpoints and pulls them off with a minimum of outrage or sermonizing.
11/16/06
not exactly lazy filmmaking, but it's hard to give it your complete attention
10/03/06
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.
08/05/06
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.
08/04/06
Top Critic
It casts a spell of compassionate humanity with a gently healing effect.
08/04/06
There are some fine performances, as well as a surprising, well-earned and emotional pay-off that comes at the end.
03/17/06
These intriguing characters and some gorgeous (for digital video) footage keep you involved, even as the plot meanders.
03/17/06
Hampered by an ending that overreaches needlessly, the film is nevertheless worthy and unmistakably the effort of an enduringly distinctive and important filmmaker.
11/10/05
Top Critic
The flawed, fascinating Land of Plenty is easily Wenders’ most vital work in more than a decade.
11/10/05
Land of Plenty isn't for everyone, but patient viewers will be rewarded with a poignant look at life in America today.
10/20/05
Michelle William's warm, emphathic presence made Wim Wenders' new 9/11 film into a truly watchable film.
10/15/05
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.
10/14/05
Top Critic
Works best as an illustration of the way conspiracy theories serve to weave threads of order, however fantastic, during moments of incomprehensible upheaval.
10/14/05
Land of Plenty has a few too many coincidences and tends to be sugary, but it has an important precautionary message in this age of terror.
10/12/05
Top Critic
Taking up the divided, anxious state of post-9/11 American life, Wim Wenders's new film is like a clumsy, well-meaning intervention in a family quarrel.
10/12/05
Top Critic
With the film's coda set at ground zero, Wenders has never seemed more of a tourist.
10/11/05
Top Critic
A caricature that indicts, if not our actual country, then a rather similar country that an outsider imagines America to be.
10/10/05
Wenders is content wandering the American heartland with his iPod and camera-as-divining-rod, looking for a thematic purpose to anchor his groggy, music-infused aesthetic.
10/08/05
Wenders spends too much time with the uninteresting murder-mystery, and by the time he gets around to the truly insightful, moving dialogue, it's too little, too late.
06/24/05
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