WONDER WHEEL (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road), Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), Juno Temple (Killer Joe), Jim Belushi (Trading Places), Jack Gore (We Are What We Are), Debi Mazar (Goodfellas), Tony Sirico (Bullets Over Broadway), Steve Schirripa (Hereafter), Max Casella (Blue Jasmine), David Krumholtz (The Santa Clause)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris), director, writer; Erika Aronson (film debut), Letty Aronson (Match Point) and Edward Walson (Blue Jasmine), producers; Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now), cinematographer; Alisa Lepselter (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Amid the busy amusement park at Coney Island in the 1950s, the lives of four people intersect with one another: Ginny (Winslet), a former actress now working as a waitress; her husband Humpty (Belushi) who operates a carousel; Mickey (Timberlake), a lifeguard who desires to be a playwright; and Carolina (Temple), Humpty’s estranged daughter who is hiding from gangsters…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

If you can still stomach a Woody Allen movie despite some horrific accusations against him being brought back into the spotlight, then you just may well be enchanted by the filmmaker’s willingness to still make movies that aren’t half bad (most of the time, anyway).

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 9TH MARCH 2018

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