Land of Plenty Page #3

Synopsis: The American daughter of missionaries Lana returns to Los Angeles from Palestine to work in a mission helping homeless people. Lana was born in Ohio and raised in South Africa and Middle East, and she is an authentic citizen of the world, connected through Internet and aware of how other people see the lack of culture and knowledge and exaggerated patriotism of average American people. Her unique relative is her unknown uncle Paul, a veteran of Vietnam War that cut relationships with his family and is bigot and paranoid. Paul lives in a surveillance van, lives as if he were a secret agent, sees conspiracy and terrorist cells everywhere, and has a great prejudice against Arabs and other non-American breeds after the September, 11th. They meet each other, and when they see the murder of a poor Pakistanis nearby the mission, they travel together to the small town of Trone to deliver his corpse to the family, where Paul sees a different reality.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Wim Wenders
Production: IFC Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
NOT RATED
Year:
2004
123 min
105 Views


is in here!

Cafe Maison.

How's it flowing, Big H?

Oh, good.

- Sherman.

- Yes.

This is Lana.

Hi.

Welcome to the mad house!

- Thank you.

- Help yourselves, fellows...

Sherman is our

operational manager.

And the chef.

And the janitor.

And the accountant.

Hello!

No, no, no, wait, wait,

turn his mike off, okay.

Look, this is MY show, alright!

These leftists can never

answer a question!

Sir, I didn't ask you

who started the UN.

I asked you if

aside from invasion,

should we always have

the approval of

the United Nations before

sending troops in?

Please just answer that

question, please!

Absolutely

Okay, thank you, Sir.

And for the record: Let me tell you:

You're a full-blown and complete idiot.

But:
God bless you

for tuning in.

And hopefully you

learned something today...

Afternoon, Elvin.

Afternoon. This your van?

Yeah. Yeah, I like a little shade.

You PD?

Nope.

But I was on a freedom

bird with one of your LTs.

Zucker?

Affirmative.

SSG Paul Jeffries, USASF.

You're working UC?!

I'm working...

Ah, excuse me, uh,

good morning,

good afternoon,

whatever, but, uh,

can I help you?

Hi. I am looking for

my uncle and,

and I have this address...

Your uncle?

Oh, you got the wrong house.

Paul... his name is

Paul Jeffries?

No, no, no,

never heard of him. No!

I've been overseas

for a long time

and I just

got back into town.

And I'd really

like to see him.

I, I kind of need to actually.

But the guy that lives here

doesn't have any relatives.

Well, uh, he does.

He has one. It's me.

Yeah, I was chubby.

Um, so is there a way that

I can get in touch with him?

Cause I'm staying at a homeless

mission right now and I just...

I don't have a phone.

Um...

Look, you didn't, uh...

you didn't get this... get this from me.

Right? Some little birdie told you...

Nineteen hundred hours,

evidence secured.

Will transport water samples

and report botulinim toxin analysis

as soon as it gets back from the lab.

Jeffries, out.

I'm good!

Damned!

So if I see someone actively

doing something suspicious,

be he middle-Eastern or not,

well I'm not just going to walk away.

This is my country,

and if I want to take a closer look,

I'm going to take a closer look!

I don't think it's radical.

I think it's rational.

Bread of Life.

Bread of Life?

Yeah, is that not what

I'm supposed to say?

How would I know?

Well, I don't know.

What did they say the

last time you called?

Well, to tell you the truth,

I don't remember.

Uh, well, this is the hall phone.

And I'm Lana.

Lana? Lana who?

Lana Swenson.

What're your hours down there,

Miss Swenson?

- Your hours of operation?

- Well, uh,

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Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: [vɪm vɛndɐs]; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture, Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch, and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. One of Wenders' earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris, Texas (1984), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes, including Wings of Desire (1987), for which Wenders won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996. Alongside filmmaking, he is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered to be an auteur director. more…

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