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| Wonderland
Year: 2003
Classification: Drama
Directed:
- James Cox
Actors/Actresses:
- Molly Parker
- Val Kilmer
- Kate Bosworth
- Josh Lucas
- Lisa Kudrow
- Christina Applegate
there's no Alice in this Wonderland
Val Kilmer (Spartan, The Salton Sea) plays legendary porn king John C. Holmes during the time of the grizzly Wonderland murders in 1981. This centers around Holmes and the people around him, the fame, the drugs and the sex. Kilmer plays Holmes to the spark of the match. It's not like Boogie Nights because if you compare them together, then your dumb. I don't think the bludgened any one in Boogie Nights with a steel pipe. Plus Boogie Nights had a massive amount of nudity and this didnt. It had like one little scene where Val Kilmer and Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush, The Rules OF Attraction) are banging each other in Carrie Fisher's (Princess Leia) bathroom. The supporting cast include Josh Lucas (The Deep End, who delivers a mean role), a nice turn for Dylan McDermott (Tv's The Grid and The Practice), Ted Levine (buffalo bill in The Silence Of The Lambs) as another cop, hmm, Franky G. ( The Italian Job2003) in like his 3rd movie. an excellent Lisa Kudrow (Tv's Friends) as Kilmer's ex-wife Sharon Holmes. Tim Blake Nelson(Cherish), Eric Bogosian (Under Siege 2) as Eddie Nash, Janeane Garofalo (wet Hot American summer) in a small role, Natasha Gregson Wagner (stranger Than Fiction) in a small role as well. Faison Love(Made)and Christina Applegate( Tv's Jesse) are also in a small role and a short cameo by the one and the only Paris Hilton (the classic paris hilton sex tape, which I havent seen yet). All in all I..ME....thought this movie was good. Blah to the rest of your snippy people. I have my own taste
Gritty look at the life of John Holmes
Val Kilmer, even more dazed here than he was in Oliver Stone's The Doors, plays porn king John Holmes in this gritty, documentary style approach to the infamous Wonderland murders in the summer of 1981. Director James Cox allows the viewer to see the events unfold through different perspectives before leaving the decision up to the viewer as to whose story to trust. What makes Wonderland unique is that it doesn't deal with Holmes' career, it deals with his life when his career seemed to be on the downhill and his drug raddled involvment with the people associated with the crime. Kilmer is solid as Holmes, while the standout performances go to Lisa Kudrow as Holmes' estranged wife and Josh Lucas as an ill-fated drug peddler. The rest of the ensemble cast includes Kate Bosworth as Holmes' young girlfriend, Tim Blake Nelson, a near un-recognizeable Dylan McDermott, Christina Applegate, Eric Bogosian, Carrie Fisher, Janeane Garofalo, Ted Levine, and Paris Hilton in a blink and you'll miss her cameo. Included with the DVD is actual police footage from the crime scene, which can be either worth watching for some or just too much to handle.
A peice of history
I feel that the Wonderland Murders helped magnified the drug scene during the early 80's. The footage about John Hohmes is completely true according to what is known about due to public record, and the murders were very sadistic to say the least. I bought the tape because it is a piece of history of the era that some of us wish to forget. The characters( Josh Lucas, Dylan McDermont, Lisa Kudrow,Val Kilmer,etc.) played in a difficult roles to let us see what happen in real life. Unfortunately, it is my firm believe that anyone who would watch this tape remember that the Wonderland gang was just as vicious as Eddie Nash was!
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