Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano
When a young loner named Dick discovers a handgun, he finds himself strangely drawn to it despite his pacifist views. Soon he forms a secret club with other misfits in his town who collect and revere ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 21, 2006
Stats: 510 reviews
This is not the film I was expecting from Vinterberg and Von Trier but it is as good as I'd hoped! It's visually stunning in places and very cool. Some of the cast let it down but on the whole this is a great film!
Apart from a few moments of jarring reality - this whole film seems like one of the brief dream like sequences from some of Lars Von Trier's earlier films. The story is grounded in the mundanity of modern youth, but uses a contrived Western style backdrop to extract it's rites of...( read more)
One half is a great and intelligent film. It deals with a pacifist gun club, without becoming wacky or bonkers. It plays it straight but the satire is still obvious without being forced upon it's audience. Bell is a superb actor, and the chemistry between him and his gun is surpr...( read more)
This movie is proof you can't just take a stance on something and throw it together to make a movie, no matter how much you want to write it off as disturbed character piece.
This movie was sloppy at times and silly at others, while it slowly went downhill at the mid-part, any...( read more)
A lot of hate for this movie but I thought it was so original and interesting.
Dear Wendy is a very original movie, with a great script. The characters are weird, but i love that in a movie. The final scene was amazing, one of the best shooting scene ever. Jamie Bell is a good actor (and isn't only because I'm a fan, but he is more than Billy Elliot, he is ...( read more)
Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier take another step toward intellectual bankruptcy with a pretentious film about a group of pacifists obsessed with handguns.
A tedious exercise in style, intended as a meditation on guns and violence in America but more of a meditation on itself, the kind of meditation that invites the mind to stray. full review
A daft portrait of the U.S. (and its racism and gun-worship) that's wide of the mark. full review
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