- Drama, War
- 121 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes75%Metacritic54IMDb7.3
One act of kindness lives on forever.
After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
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Earnest, grave, resolved and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Brent Marchanton TMDB · Dec 20247/10
Teachable moments can prove integral to the personal growth and development of those coming of age. So it is for 15-year-old Julian Albans (Bryce Gheisar), the central figure featured in the Wonder series of books and graphic novels, the inspiration behind a 2017 film of the same name and this loosely connected new sequel offering. The story here picks up where its predecessor left, with Julian resuming his scholastic life at a new private academy after having been expelled from his prior school. He’s not sure how to fit in, especially when confronted by others with similar kinds of bad behavior that got him booted from his old school. Now, though, he has an opportunity to change his destiny and begin anew, largely thanks to a visit from his Parisian grandmother, renowned artist Sara Blum (Helen Mirren), who visits his family in New York to attend a museum retrospective of her work. Sara can see that Julian is struggling, and so she launches into a story about her life when she was his age in hopes that it will help. She chronicles in detail the ordeals she faced when living in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. As a Jew, she sought to evade captivity at the hands of the Ger
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Cast
- Ariella GlaserSara (Young Grandmére)
- Orlando SchwerdtJulien Beaumier
- Bryce GheisarJulian Albans
- Gillian AndersonVivienne Beaumier
- Helen MirrenGrandmére
- Jo Stone-FewingsJean-Paul Beaumier
- Patsy FerranMille. Petitjean
- Stuart McQuarriePastor Luc
- Olivia RossRose Blum
- Ishai GolanMax Blum
Crew
- Marc ForsterDirector
- Mark BombackScreenplay
- Matthias KoenigswieserDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Matt ChesséEditor
- David HobermanProducer
- Todd LiebermanProducer
- R.J. PalacioProducer
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