Product Details

• Directors: John O'Hagan
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1572523743
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,689 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From wife-swapping to bingo to beauty queens, Wonderland takes a humorous and affectionate look at life in the world's first mass produced and scientifically planned suburb, Levittown, NY, on its 50th anniversary.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A touching, hilarious and human documentary..., August 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Wonderland [VHS] (VHS Tape)

John O'Hagan's brilliant, feature-length documentary about the America's first planned community is a beautiful portrait of Levittown, New York. With commentary by Levittown natives Eddie "Two Tickets to Paradise" Money, Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffiths and a host of (more interesting) current residents, Wonderland demonstrates the transformative power of personality and character over the forces of bland conformity. Like a more playful Errol Morris, O'Hagan lets the humanity of his cast of characters shine through. This film is incredible - unbelievably funny without being snide, beautifully shot and edited, and not to be missed. The fact that it is no longer available from the studio is a crime.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the Documentary, March 30, 2000

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A. Hickman (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wonderland [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The film "Wonderland" (aka "The FruitMachine") is a surprisingly dippy, imaginative romp involving twogay teenaged boys who happen to witness a gangland murder and are forced to flee Liverpool for Brighton. The film takes many inventive turns, several of which involve Eddie's dream lover, a man-dolphin hybrid who actually appears at crucial moments in the film to save Eddie and his partner, Michael. There are many subplots and colorful supporting characters, and the ending, albeit sad, is inevitable. It's worth it if only for the dance sequence at the Fruit Machine, a gay showbar in Liverpool, in which Michael competes for thirty quid. His dance is both erotic and touchingly naive. Both boys, Emile Charles and Tony Forsyth, should have had big careers in film. Apart from one distracting editing lapse that blunts the finale, this is a superior film, in that it refuses to indulge in stereotyping and doesn't condescend to its lead characters.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars you have the wrong editorial description., January 3, 2000

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Beverly J. Anderson (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wonderland [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The customer review you have is for the correct movie. I agree with everything that reviewer said. How do we get them to release it for sale?