Wondrous Oblivion goes awry in its sloppy racial drama, and although the cricket-training montages are good, they're still training montages, and this is just that kind of overfamiliar movie.
Wondrous Oblivion
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France, United Kingdom, Germany · 2004
Rated PG · 1h 46m
Director Paul Morrison
Starring Sam Smith, Emily Woof, Stanley Townsend, Delroy Lindo
Genre Drama
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David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the father starts giving cricket lessons to David, and becomes close to David's mother. But this is 1960's London, and when the locals start making life difficult for the new arrivals, David has to choose btween fitting and and standing up for his new freinds
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Full of charming moments, but swinging hither and thither between mainstream entertainment and an over-cooked anti-racist tract.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Good intentions and some nicely playful moments go a long way toward balancing out Paul Morrison's uneven story of British immigrants in the early 1960s.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Form and content fight to the death in Wondrous Oblivion, Paul Morrison's defiantly gauzy tale of racial friction in 1960s England.
As lightheartedly as the film plays, Morrison manages to say quite a few serious things about immigration and otherness.
Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan
Generally, thanks to solid performances and very nice cinematography, it hits, if not a home run, at least a solid double (or the British equivalent).
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Lindo gives a powerhouse performance of immense feeling and subtlety.
It loses direction, turning contrived and sentimental. There's even a touch of Frank Capra.
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