Phoebe in Wonderland

Phoebe in Wonderland (2007)

  • 59% of critics liked it
    (51 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (31,939 ratings)

Felicity Huffman, Elle Fanning, and Patricia Clarkson star in director/screenwriter Daniel Barnz's illuminating tale of parenting and growth concerning an exceptional young girl whose troubling retreat into fantasy draws the concern of both her dejected mother and her unusually perceptive drama… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.
Directed By
Daniel Barnz
Written By
Daniel Barnz
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Mar 6, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Jun 23, 2009
ThinkFilm

Critic Reviews

  • Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies

    It needs the power of imagination to be done effectively and I just didn't think it was here.

  • Ben Lyons, At the Movies

    I thought this was delightful, a little depressing at times but with three stellar performances from Fanning, Huffman, and Patricia Clarkson.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    There's a lot more perspiration than inspiration.

  • Dana Stevens, Slate

    [Elle Fanning is] an astonishingly natural and unmannered actress who carries this rather ungainly movie on her narrow shoulders.

  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Barnz has made a poignant family movie that, despite its thematic material and brief profanity, is appropriate for mature 10-year-olds and older.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Morgan S


    This is NOT a childrens' movies. Don't go to Red-Box see the cover and think "O how sweet! A new Alice in Wonderland with Dakota Fannings' little sister!" That is a falsehood! Bad adevertising. Let me tell you what this movie is actually about. Phoepe… More

  • Alexis N


    This wasn't the movie I wanted it to be. It's about a troubled girl who finds her school's production of Alice In Wonderland, which ends up becoming a strain on her sister and her parents. I don't know what the point of it was, it was just a tough movie with not… More

  • paul s


    Although at times coming off as a film version of a play, this film has a heart and soul, as well as an imagination that, like falling down the rabbit hole, isn't always a good thing. Occasionaly brilliant, it makes some of the more pedestrian scenes seem all the more two… More

  • jay n


    Whatever the film makers were going for in this film they missed. A dreary downer with an able cast wasted.

  • Curtis L


    I learned that kids with Tourettes are funny, and that I wish to punch some parents in the face.

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