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Wonderland (2003)

Wonderland poster
Directed by
James Cox
Genre
drama film, biographical film, crime film
Country
United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 298 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A famous porn star becomes entangled in a series of brutal murders. The film shows different versions of what happened from the people involved.

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What happens

Wonderland is a 2003 American crime drama film, co-written and directed by James Cox and based on the real-life Wonderland Murders that occurred in 1981. The film stars Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Carrie Fisher, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Christina Applegate, Tim Blake Nelson, and Janeane Garofalo. Kilmer plays the role of John Holmes, a famous pornographic film star and suspected accomplice in four grisly murders committed in a house at 8763 Wonderland Avenue, in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles. The film uses a nonlinear Rashomon-style narrative structure to present conflicting accounts of the murders from differing perspectives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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