Bernard White, Burt Young, Jeris Poindexter

After years of living in Israel, a young woman returns to the United States to search for her only living relative, the brother of her deceased mother. Penniless, armed only with her winning optimism ...( read more  read more... )and the fearlessness born of youth, Lana ends up living in a mission in downtown Los Angeles. There she sets out to find her reclusive uncle, an obsessive loner fixated on weeding out people he thinks are dangerous to the state. When the two finally meet, their lives overlap and intersect, taking us in strange and surprising directions.

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Unrated, 2 hrs. 3 min.

Directed by: Wim Wenders

Release Date: January 1, 2004

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DVD Release Date: October 10, 2006

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  • December 21, 2008
    Heavy handed borin bollocks. Get over it.
  • March 16, 2007
    Very well done movie about post 9/11.
  • October 18, 2009
    I was suprised how much I enjoyed this film
  • August 4, 2009
    See this film for Michelle Williams performance. I liked the idea of the whole post 9/11 paranoia. I do wish this film was a bit shorter though.
  • February 9, 2009
    its a weird film.
    slow pace but somehow it works.
    i think u will love it or hate it...

    i stay in the middle :
  • October 25, 2007
    oh shit, i almost forgot to add this one to my favs! although none of my friends did like land of plenty, i think of it as the best wenders plus brilliant and touching masterpiece.
  • August 29, 2007
    the most impressing film about 9/11 I've seen so far
  • April 19, 2007
    Depuis les attentats terroristes du 11 septembre, Paul, un vétéran de la guerre du Vietnam, est devenu paranoïaque. Il arpente les rues de Los Angeles avec sa camionette bourrée de gadgets à la recherche de complots terroristes. Pendant ce temps, Lana revient aux États-Unis, aprè...( read more)s avoir passé la majorité de sa vie en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient. Elle espére retrouver l'oncle dont elle a perdu la trace, un certain Paul...

    Malgré ce qu'en disent les critiques, Wim Wenders est très loin d'avoir perdu la main. Avec Land of plenty, Wenders nous plonge encore dans un de ses univers, là où tout est magique, où on se sent instinctivement aspiré. Sincèrement, Wenders surpasse Hitchcock dans l'habileté à créer des univers (Hitchcock le surpassant toutefois dans l'ambiance). Seul pépin, bien que je dénote beaucoup de ressemblances avec Paris, Texas, c'est qu'il me semble que, malgré des performances et des personnages incroyables, on ne ressent pas le même pincement au coeur qui vient autant nous chercher que dans les autres films de Wenders.
  • March 19, 2007
    Just a bit less sobering than Crash...good flick!
  • January 21, 2007
    Dun know how to describe my emotion after i seen, a special movie actually, all things happened, who could reproach with?
    Just wan to say: No War pls!!!

Critic Reviews


October 15, 2005
Marcy Dermansky, About.com

Michelle William's warm, emphathic presence made Wim Wenders' new 9/11 film into a truly watchable film. full review

October 12, 2005
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

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.

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