Wander

Directed by April Mullen

Canada / United States, 2020 (fiction, 94 minutes, colour, English)

Also known as "Conspiración Wander"

Film Description:
"After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter."
-- Saban Films (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Tim Doiron
Produced by:	Jason Allison, Mary Aloe, April Mullen, Chad A. Verdi
Principal Cast:	Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham, Raymond Cruz, Brendan Fehr, Roger Dorman, Nicole Steinwedell, Tylannie Smith-Scott, Deborah Chavez, David Gibson, Alaina Warren Zachary, Sheryl Bailey, Ian McLaren, Elizabeth Selby, Benjamin Barrett, Ramona King, Marvin Gouch, Moses Munoz, Colby Crain, Celine R. Lopez, Tim Doiron, Jennifer Paredes, Adam Falkoff, Helene Wren, Harriet Divine, Mickey Moon
Cinematography:	Russ De Jong, Gavin Smith
Film Editing:	Luke Higginson
Music:	Alexandra Mackenzie
Production Company:	Saban Films, Ingenious Media, Wango Films

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Notes about Wander

Filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Carrizozo, New Mexico.

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Quote by the Director

"Wander is a whirlwind of moments strung together depicting a human being pushing through grief and time to move forward and seek an individual's truth. I am in awe of all those people who fight for the light, hope and love on a daily basis. These Silent Warriors are often marginalized, alienated, judged, and if they are racialized disproportionally criminalized, targeted with discrimination and violence, and often, sadly their lives taken as they try to speak out. Even through the dizzying mania of grief and mental illness, Arthur fights for the truth and his beliefs at all costs."
-- April Mullen (source)

Quotes about Wander

"[In Wander] there is some pleasure to be had in watching an atypically frenetic Aaron Eckhart as a PTSD-afflicted loner wading deep into possibly-imagined evildoings in the Southwest, with Tommy Lee Jones and Heather Graham also welcome as two allies. Still, the film's hyperbolic style and convoluted storytelling tend to exhaust patience rather than build intrigue, making for a muddle whose too-many twists and turns ultimately seem meaningless as well as implausible."
-- Dennis Harvey (source)

"[In Wander] the frantic filmmaking is obviously meant to reflect our hero's frantic mind, but it winds up giving you a migraine and actually undermines the whole setup: If Bretnik is already this crazy then why should we even bother following him all the way down the rabbit hole?"
-- Jordan Mintzer (source)

"Director April Mullen shoots Wander like a kinetic horror film, which results in some pretty cool sequences but also far too many quick-cut flashbacks to the deadly auto accident, which results in us feeling more annoyed and manipulated than intrigued."
-- Richard Roeper (source)

Publications by the Director about Wander

Mullen, April. "How filmmaker April Mullen incorporated her Indigenous tradition and roots on the set of 'Wander' (guest blog)." The Wrap, December 21, 2020.

Bibliography for Wander

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Harvey, Dennis. "'Wander' review: An energized Aaron Eckhart goes down a murky conspiracy wormhole; Director April Mullen and writer Tim Doiron's latest collaboration is a paranoid thriller too twisty for its own good." Review of Wander. Variety, December 4, 2020.
Mintzer, Jordan. "'Wander': film review." Review of Wander. Hollywood Reporter, September 17, 2020.
Roeper, Richard. "'Wander': Aaron Eckhart makes a great conspiracy theorist, and he isn't acting alone; Tommy Lee Jones is a hoot as his trust-no-one sidekick in the bonkers paranoia thriller." Review of Wander. Chicago Sun-Times, December 2, 2020.

Web Sites about Wander

"IMDb: Wander." Internet Movie Database, Inc. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9689696/reference.
"Wander." Saban Films. https://www.sabanfilms.com/films/wander/. [official site]