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Wondrous Oblivion (2006)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:26
Rotten:14
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: This coming-of-age/cricket tale wants to be touching, but is too often sappy.
Theatrical Release:Nov 3, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and... [More]
Starring: Sam Smith, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Townsend, Emily Woof
Director: Paul Morrison
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Reviews for Wondrous Oblivion
The challenges of friendship across color lines.
06/17/07
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05/12/07
Top CriticEvocative, beautifully photographed and skillfully directed.
03/01/07
David's favorite exclamation is "wondrous!" %u2014 which happens to be a fitting description for the talents of writer/director Paul Morrison.
02/01/07
Wondrous Oblivion is a timeless tale of an 11-year-old South London boy putting aside boyish things. Writer-director Paul Morrison affirms PG-rated life lessons that could appeal to 11-year-olds and their elders alike.
01/12/07
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12/30/06
Top CriticFor all its bright-hued nostalgia (the cricket greens are practically incandescent), Wondrous Oblivion edges up to hard truths, most powerfully expressed in Lindo's towering performance.
12/30/06
Top CriticA touching rite-of-passage flick which simultaneously sends several valuable messages about friendship, fidelity, tolerance, and reaching for the stars.
12/28/06
You don't have to know anything about the sport of cricket to be charmed by Wondrous Oblivion, a British film that is finally getting a well-deserved theatrical release after opening the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in 2004.
12/22/06
Top Critic...Thanks to solid performances and very nice cinematography, it hits, if not a home run, at least a solid double (or the British equivalent).
12/15/06
A family film with a difference, Wondrous Oblivion displays real bite as it incisively tackles such adult subjects as racism, anti-Semitism, adultery and the plight of immigrants in an intolerant land.
11/23/06
It's a delight to see Delroy Lindo -- perpetually cast as tough cops and tougher crooks -- playing a tender father and decent (if struggling) husband.
11/06/06
Top CriticAmid the mawkish mess rests a genuinely touching love story between two people who are considered outcasts by mainstream society. Too bad they're not the stars of the movie.
11/03/06
It's sweet-as-pie, nicely acted and boasts a marvelous vintage ska-reggae-calypso soundtrack featuring some of the best, bounciest songs of the era, including 'Sugar Dandy,' 'Rudi, A Message to You' and of course, Millie Small's 'My Boy Lollipop.'
11/03/06
The film feels like the Cliffs Notes version of what might have been a much longer and certainly more satisfying story.
11/03/06
Top CriticIt loses direction, turning contrived and sentimental.
11/03/06
Top CriticGood 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.
11/03/06
Top CriticForm and content fight to the death in Wondrous Oblivion, Paul Morrison's defiantly gauzy tale of racial friction in 1960s England.
11/02/06
Top CriticA small and intimate English film about playing cricket, coming of age, and the respect for diversity that seems so hard to learn.
11/02/06
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