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'WONDERFUL' AND EMPTY Gyllenhaal (right) and Ari Graynor in Leiner's post-9/11 N.Y. story
GREAT NEW WONDERFUL: Abbot Genser
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Limited Release: Jun 23, 2006; Rated: R; Length: 88 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Edie Falco and Maggie Gyllenhaal
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

The self-absorbed New Yorkers who inhabit The Great New Wonderful are an antsy lot in 2002: An aggressive entrepreneur (Maggie Gyllenhaal) schemes to crush a competitor (Edie Falco), a placid company drone (Jim Gaffigan) roils with internal rage, an old woman (Olympia Dukakis) stalls in an ancient marital rut. Working from a stagy script by Sam Catlin, director Danny Leiner uses a dainty palette of tristesse (untouched when he made Dude, Where's My Car?) to suggest that the shadow of 9/11 makes every discontent more pathetic.


Posted Jul 05, 2006
 

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