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Wim Wenders drama Land of Plenty stars John Diehl and Michelle Williams as two very different people who are brought together for an unconventional road trip. The film takes place after September 11, ... read more read more...2001, and the main characters are dealing with their grief in very different ways. Paul (Diehl) keeps his paranoid eye on the lookout for terrorists wherever he goes. His niece Lana, Williams) does charity work for the indigent. After a young Muslim is shot dead, the uncle and niece travel together - her to bring the body back to the family, he to wipe out the terrorists he is convinced the young man worked with. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 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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  • dreamfaeries
    March 16, 2007
    dreamfaeries
    Very well done movie about post 9/11.
  • naoyakugimiya1
    March 10, 2012
    naoyakugimiya1
    The contemporary America after 9/11 depicted by Wim Wenders. I basically love this film and understand his points as one of those who are somehow obsessed (have love and hate) with the image of "U.S.A." as foreigners. What amazes me mostly is that Wenders keeps the same kind of a... read morettitude and energy on describing and thinking about America as much as he did in "Paris, Texas" back in 80s. This film is (meant to be) much more political, and characters are little bit too symbolized, but Wenders's story and characters are both very much flesh and blood. Even though he is a very symbolical character, and I guess he look too typical as a Vietnam Veteran or a patriot activist, he seems to be existing in the reality. I think the film is little weak in terms of the drama of process how two people who have completely different background and ways of thinking start to kinda understand each other (the relationship between the uncle Paul and a girl Lana), Wenders's technique to make a "meaningful" fiction out of what really goes on in the real world and to let you start to think about the issue that the film is dealing with is now very sharp and professional.
  • Michael9636
    January 1, 2007
    Michael9636
    A very polarizing movie. Vividly portrays what happens when people give in to paranoia. They see terrorists around every corner, egged on by the government's "war" on terrorists. Very disturbing.

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Leslie Felperin
August 4, 2006
Leslie Felperin, Variety

Wim Wenders' first fiction featurefeature since 2000's The Million Dollar Hotel, rocky but respectable Land of Plenty proves the helmer often does better with low budgets, fast schedules and young col... Full Review

Kevin Thomas
November 10, 2005
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Hampered by an ending that overreaches needlessly, the film is nevertheless worthy and unmistakably the effort of an enduringly distinctive and important filmmaker. Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
October 14, 2005
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

Wenders handles America's physical landscape with characteristic clarity. But he never gets a handle on the trickier political terrain and so, like Uncle Paul, ends up chasing too many roads to nowhere. Full Review

V.A. Musetto
October 12, 2005
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

Land of Plenty has a few too many coincidences and tends to be sugary, but it has an important precautionary message in this age of terror.

A.O. Scott
October 12, 2005
A.O. Scott, 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.

Michael Atkinson
October 11, 2005
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

With the film's coda set at ground zero, Wenders has never seemed more of a tourist. Full Review

Ray Bennett
October 30, 2004
Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter

The sense of wonderment and desire for understanding that envelop the old soldier and the young disciple create a mood of profound optimism.

Dennis Schwartz
December 19, 2006
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

About as unconvincing as any Hollywood film. Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
November 16, 2006
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

Deftly balances its viewpoints and pulls them off with a minimum of outrage or sermonizing. Full Review

Christopher Null
October 3, 2006
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

not exactly lazy filmmaking, but it's hard to give it your complete attention Full Review

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